Ports & Harbours

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OTHER NEWS

Italy has cut planned funding for offshore-wind infrastructure at two ports that had been earmarked to become floating offshore wind hubs. The allocation for the ports of Taranto and Augusta has been slashed €78.3m to €38.3m, prompting criticism but also…

24th September 2026

Italy halves funding for two offshore-wind hubs

24th September 2026

OTHER NEWS

OTHER NEWS

One of the Port of Leith’s three massive caisson gates has undergone major refurbishment as part of an eight-yearly maintenance programme designed to keep vessels moving safely through the locked harbour. The gates play a crucial role in the operation…

23rd September 2026

Before and after: Major maintenance completed on port gates

23rd September 2026

OTHER NEWS

OTHER NEWS

There’s no point in waiting around, the founder and chief executive of the rapidly growing group Balaena believes, insisting that in just five months’ time, a company that has already quadrupled its…

22nd September 2026

Midas touch? Balaena CEO on his company’s rapid growth

22nd September 2026

OTHER NEWS

OTHER NEWS

After years of developing the technology and infrastructure needed to capture carbon dioxide from industrial processes and store it permanently underground, the European Union has its first full-scale CCS project in operation.…

22nd September 2026

First full-scale CCS subsea store in Europe opens

22nd September 2026

OTHER NEWS

OTHER NEWS

‘Economic factors’ have led Forth Ports to axe plans for a ferry link that would have reopened the only service between Scotland and Europe. In November last year, the Scottish government said…

21st September 2026

Proposals scrapped for Scotland’s only ferry link to Europe

21st September 2026

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

A new dedicated handling, storage and assembly operation for wind turbine components has been commissioned at the Port of Antwerp, adding capacity for a market facing growing demand for specialist infrastructure and…

21st September 2026

Antwerp changes port set-up to handle wind turbines

21st September 2026

OTHER NEWS

OTHER NEWS

In a webinar hosted by the European Onshore Power Supply Association (EOPSA), CEO Roland Teixeira quizzed representatives from the ports of Rotterdam and Bilbao about how they were installing it.

16th September 2026

Shore power: Plugging in is just the first step

16th September 2026

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

The Port of Gdańsk has completed a PLN 98 million (€22.5 million) reconstruction of its Ore Quay, replacing deteriorating infrastructure with a new pile-supported structure that can accommodate larger vessels and heavier…

15th September 2026

Port of Gdańsk completes major quay reconstruction

15th September 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Chinese offshore wind manufacturer and vessel operator Dajin Heavy Industry has signed a memorandum of understanding with Scottish port developer Haventus to explore a ‘strategic partnership’ at Ardersier Port.

26th August 2026

Chinese offshore wind group signs MOU with UK port

26th August 2026

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Harwich Haven Authority is introducing a new digital Under Keel Clearance (UKC) management system designed to give its vessel traffic operators and pilots more detailed, real-time information on navigational conditions.

24th August 2026

Under-keel clearance system first to be deployed in UK

24th August 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Construction has started on Associated British Ports and Stena Line’s new £200 million (€233 million) ro-ro terminal.

20th August 2026

Steel signed for £200m Ro-Ro terminal transformation

20th August 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Almost two decades after Lerwick Harbour finished a major dredging project, the port is once again digging deep with the return of vessels engaged in the 2008 works.

19th August 2026

Lerwick Harbour digs deeper for 2nd time in a generation

19th August 2026

SAFETY & TRAINING

SAFETY & TRAINING

A fatal explosion at one of Rotterdam’s major energy facilities killed one person and injured six others on August 13.

18th August 2026

Police investigate fatal Rotterdam port explosion

18th August 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

The biggest turbine monopiles in Southern Europe have been delivered to Ørsted destined for Hornsea 3, the world’s largest offshore wind farm when installed off the UK eastern coast.

13th August 2026

In pictures: massive monopiles for world’s largest wind farm

13th August 2026

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Ports and harbours are becoming the critical enabler of several enormous transitions taking place in the commercial marine sector today.

13th August 2026

INTERVIEW: Ports under pressure: ‘It will work, because it has to’

13th August 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

A logistics partnership is bringing together marine, rail and aggregates to form a ‘virtual quarry’ to support the build of a nuclear power station on the eastern English coast.

12th August 2026

Partnership plans ‘virtual quarry’ for nuclear power station build

12th August 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

A Greek industrial port is to be transformed into one of the Mediterranean’s largest mega-yacht marinas, previously unseen planning documents reveal.

6th August 2026

Planning documents reveal scale of Greek port transformation

6th August 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Just days after reaching another major milestone on Genoa’s new offshore breakwater, Italian construction group Webuild has secured an €803 million contract to build the most technically demanding section of the city’s…

3rd August 2026

Webuild wins €800 million contract for undersea tunnel

3rd August 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

While ports around the world prepare for rising sea levels, those on the shores of the Caspian Sea face precisely the opposite challenge.

30th July 2026

Shrinking sea: Europe’s marine engineers called in to save Caspian ports

30th July 2026

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Portsmouth International Port has begun supplying shore power to ferries and cruise ships in what it says is the UK’s first multi-berth, multi-user, multi-frequency shore power system.

27th July 2026

UK’s first multi-berth shore power system switches on

27th July 2026