Ports & Harbours

Port of Sunderland has declared itself ready, willing and able to deliver after a long-awaited government announcement of investment in Dogger Bank.

A logistics solutions company aims to support its transcontinental operations with the opening of a a 17,000sqm warehouse facility.

A major port modernisation project in the Northwest of the UK is expected to be completed at the start of 2020.

The UK government’s Department for Transport (DfT) has partnered with a port to launch the UK’s first Port Economic Partnership (PEP) with the aim of creating stronger links between ports and Government…

The UK’s Portsmouth International Port is making a long talked about move towards creaming off some of near neighbour Southampton’s considerable cruise traffic thanks to a berth extension project.

A port in Estonia has ordered a rope-free automated mooring system to facilitate faster berthing processes and improve safety.

Work is starting on the expansion of the oil terminal in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda to allow it to handle deeper draft tankers and to increase the number of berths from…

A French port authority aims to cut emissions by spending €20m over the next six years to extend shoreside power.

A new safety-focused mooring solution actively dampens vessel motion to increase the range of environmental conditions in which cargo can be transferred and improve throughput.

Adjustment works to deepen and widen the River Elbe fairway have begun with the aim of improving large vessel access at the Port of Hamburg.

A maritime engineering company has been selected to work on a major infrastructure project designed to extend the mooring capacity of Queen’s Pier by 40m at Portland Port in Dorset, UK.

Bedford Pumps Ltd, will supply five pumps for a dock dewatering application at the Port of Casablanca in Morocco.

Intermarine UK has completed the construction of a British Royal Navy pontoon to assist with getting on and off aircraft carriers in Portsmouth.

Aarsleff Ground Engineering has been awarded the piling contract for a new aggregates processing plant at Newhaven Port in East Sussex, UK.

Offshore wind could provide 30% of Britains electricity generation by 2030, and the Port of Tyne says it is perfectly placed to support this growing renewable sector.

A tug from the Port of Shoreham has completed a programme of seabed levelling in the nearby port of Newhaven in order to maintain the charted depths in the harbour writes Dag…

German officials are now hoping to sign a contract this year covering the long-delayed repair of a giant Kiel Canal lock gate damaged in a spectacular ship accident last year, writes Tom…

Urgently-needed multi-million Euro deepening of Germany’s Elbe River is finally underway after nearly two decades of delays and controversy, writes Tom Todd.

Lower Saxony Ports (N-Ports) is seeking approval for more berths in Cuxhaven which would give the expanding German port a total  deepwater Elbe frontage of about 3.6 kms, reports Tom Todd.

Quay modernisation and stepped-up investment this year in Rostock is designed to keep the German Baltic port on top of demand, reports Tom Todd.

The Port of Milford Haven has completed a series of improvements to its lock gates at the entrance to Milford Marina, enabling a more flexible and faster access arrangement for its marina…

BP, Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals), and the Port of Rotterdam have joined forces to explore the opportunity of making “green hydrogen” via water electrolysis for BP’s refinery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands,…

The development of a new Icelandic port that could enable sustainable development of the Arctic and help to make emergent shipping routes safer is set to offer multiple natural benefits.