Ports & Harbours

A retractable floating pier, known as a SeaWalk, will provide easier access for cruise ships and passengers at the Port of Nynäshamn, one of the main cruise destinations in the Stockholm region.

Port infrastructure development projects in Germany’s biggest universal seaport Hamburg are costing about €200 million this year with cruise handling facilities and bridges drawing current attention.

Work has begun in Cuxhaven on the construction of a new €36 million handling terminal on the Elbe which officials have said is part of “urgently needed” business expansion at the German…

The German Government has given the go-ahead for work costing €240 million to demolish old locks in Kiel-Holtenau at the Baltic end of the Kiel Canal and replace them with brand new…

An EU funded project called the Nordic Maritime Hub project has been initiated at the Port of Frederikshavn in Denmark.

Antwerp Port Authority in Belgium has issued a new Request for Proposals (RfP) for its Churchill Industrial Zone in the port area.

Ports of Jersey has selected Austrian-headquartered Frequentis to modernise its existing control centre systems, through an integrated communication system, a ten-year maintenance contract and the first Frequentis implementation of a vessel traffic…

The Port of Rotterdam Authority, together with the Amsterdam Port Authority, Groningen Seaports, the Moederdijk Port Authority, the Port of Den Helder and Zeeland Seaports, is appealing against the decision of the…

Damen Dredging Equipment has delivered DOP submersible dredge pumps to many dredging contractors around the world. An interesting project is currently being undertaken by the Dutch contractor Martens & Van Oord in…

The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) and American company Cargill have formed a joint venture to develop a new grain terminal at the Ukrainian port of Yuzhny on the Black Sea coast.

Medium-scale Spanish wind turbine manufacturer, Norvento, has begun construction on a 200kW twin turbine site at Shoreham Port on the UK’s South Coast.

Being completed by April in the east German Baltic port of Rostock is the nine-month rebuilding of Pier 7, a facility seen as strategically essential for the future of the port’s Warnemünde…

Two new multi-purpose, eco-friendly icebreakers have gone into service in Germany’s biggest seaport, Hamburg, and will be followed by an even bigger pair of all-rounders later this year.

Italian dredging equipment manufacturer Dragflow recently supplied a Remote controlled dredge for a harbour dredging project in Italy’s Marina Sveva.

In 2015 for the first time in its history the Belgian port of Antwerp passed the 200 million tonne mark for the volume of freight handled, by a wide margin.

Every marine operator and boat owner at some point has experienced problems and challenges associated with safe and secure mooring, changing tides, river levels and conditions.

The design and development of a new container terminal in the port of Naples in Italy has posed considerable challenges because it has been heavily polluted in the past.

Already well advanced in the heart of Europe’s second biggest port – Hamburg - are extensive works to improve accessibility and manoeuverability for big container and cruise ships.

Kotug and Becker Marine Systems are developing a LNG Hybrid Barge for the port of Rotterdam. The barge acts as a power station driven by gas and is to supply relatively clean…