Marine Civils

The French Port of Le Havre has awarded a significant contract to the NGE Group for construction work to adapt a quay in the harbour.

The transportation phase for the Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan has been completed, paving the way for the installation phase to begin.

Ørsted contracted MRE to provide temporary power during the turbine commissioning phase of the 94 Siemens Gamesa Renewables 8.0-167 type turbines at the Borssele 1 & 2 offshore wind farm.

BMT will assess the feasibility of using space-based data to support the decommissioning of energy assets.

According to IHS Markit’s newly published International Dredging Directory, industry uncertainty has temporarily reversed the trend for ever larger dredgers.

Maritime Developments (MDL) has completed a SURF decommissioning project off the UK for Helix Robotics Solutions.

A UK south coast welding and fabrication firm has put cable lay vessel mobilization at the forefront of its offshore service offering.

The VindØ consortium which comprises two of Denmark’s largest pension funds, and Denmark’s largest utility company has revealed plans for the world’s first energy island in the North Sea.

Heerema Marine Contractors will work with a Netherlands-based engineering company to retrofit ballast water treatment systems in its vessels.

A project to engineer, supply and install a retrofit subsea cable protection system (CPS) for an HVDC grid connection has been successfully completed by a major consortium.

Turbine installation has begun at a 950MW offshore wind farm in the UK following the arrival of an installation vessel key to this phase of construction.

According to Nektarios Mitsokapas, The Red Sea Project, currently under construction on the coast of Saudi Arabia, is one of the world’s most ambitious regenerative tourism projects.

180,000 cubic metres of dredged material are currently being reused as filling material in the construction of the Port of Gothenburgs next major investment.

A concrete additive from an Australian company that enhances compressive strength and other key characteristics is finding many uses in and around the Port of Savannah, Georgia, USA.

Silt curtains – turbidity barriers – are typically used to contain silt spread around dredging and land reclamation sites, said Chris Reeder of Ecocoast.

Accessing the underside of a rail bridge over fast flowing water for a recent rail upgrade required some out of the box thinking.

A €500 million widening project just inaugurated on Germany’s Kiel Canal is but one part of an extensive €2.6 billion upgrade of the world’s busiest man-made waterway, writes Tom Todd.