Ports & Harbours

Construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility is now under way at the Port of Gothenburg. The facility will open up new opportunities for LNG-fuelled ships that call at the Gothenburg…

Portuguese company Blue Atlantic has released new plans for an 800metre quay to berth two Panamax vessels. The 96-hectare site for sale in what is described as ‘one of Europe’s leading maritime…

Aberdeen Harbour Board and Dragados UK, the principal contractor for the Aberdeen Harbour Expansion Project, have opened a Harbour Expansion Visitor Centre, where schools, community groups, organisations and members of the public…

Proposals to build a canal across the spit of land that divides the Black Sea from the Sea of Marmara have been on the drawing board for many years. The canal is…

More than a decade after it was closed for renovation and expansion, the Nesserlander Schleuse - one of the two locks linking the busy German port of Emden with the sea -…

ABP’s Port of Teignmouth, Devon, UK has reported 2017 as a record-breaking year, which saw the port handle its highest tonnage of cargo since 2008.

The port of Blyth, UK has announced a new £12million banking facility with Lloyds Bank that will enable the next phase in its rapid expansion.

Italy’s Ingemar Group has developed a new modular system to build extra-large barriers and maxi-size floating pontoons which could play a key role in the coastal development of many emerging countries.

Barge operators not only require well-equipped service quays, they also need holding berths where they can moor for a rest or while they are waiting for the next job. The increasing volume…

The German port handling company EPAS recently received two new Liebherr mobile harbour cranes type LHM 420. Both cranes together can handle up to 248 tonnes in tandem lift operation. The two…

Premier Marinas in the UK has turned to the potential benefits of solar power to support its immediate and future energy needs.

Norway’s NorSea Group has revealed plans to construct a new roll-on/roll-off facility at its Polarbase supply facility located at Hammerfest in the far north of Norway. This project is being developed in…

According to Peter Lyall of maritime consultants and Global Maritime subsidiary Eagle Lyon Pope, the ports sector is undergoing major changes as it faces a highly competitive economic environment and ongoing global…

A team working on a construction project at the UK’s Port of Dover has uncovered a fossilised mammoth tooth while excavating the Wellington Dock Navigation Channel.

Construction work is close to completion on Poole Harbour’s GB£10m development South Quay.

How can keeping 80 or so people up all night help solve practical, port-related issues like dredging prediction? The answer: hold a hackathon.

The rapidly expanding German Bight port of Cuxhaven has put two more offshore-oriented ship handling berths into operation, started expansion work on another and remains on track to complete a big combined…

Significant developments are taking place at the northern French port of Ouistreham that are aimed at allowing access for larger vessels as well as creating 30 to 40 additional waiting spaces in…

A giant new river lock which can handle modern river and canal motor ships up to 110m in length and will significantly improve European waterway transport, has been inaugurated on the River…

Two years after unexpected repairs closed it down for more than a twelve month period, the €233 million Kaiserschleuse Lock in Bremerhaven, built just six years ago, is to close again for…