Ports & Harbours

A major milestone has been reached in an ambitious plan to bring marine manufacturing and support industries back to the Upper Clyde, Scotland.

Belfast Harbour in Northern Ireland, has announced major plans to expand its facilities and revealed its ambition to become one of the best regional ports in the world writes Dag Pike.

A third round of major repairs inside five years was being completed by October at Bremerhaven’s trouble-plagued Kaiserschleuse ship lock, reports Tom Todd.

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…