Ports & Harbours

With commercial wharves and waterside industries being squeezed out of existence in the UK it is encouraging to hear that one site has been saved from development for use as a commercial…

The EU Transport Coordinating Committee has approved funding for transport projects submitted by the Port of Gdansk, Polands leading port. According to the European Commission 16 Polish undertakings qualified as recommended projects…

The Port of Marseille in the south of France has a number of projects under way that are aimed at keeping the port in the forefront of modern logistic requirements.

A new €3.9 million ferry station at Schilksee in the north of the Kiel Fiord has opened for traffic, becoming the fourth pontoon landing facility to be inaugurated on the busy German…

Hamburg Port Authority HPA has taken delivery of a new €7.5 million floating dredger in a bid to keep abreast of dredging needs and silt build-up in Germany’s biggest universal seaport.

Work has started on the first phase of a major port expansion plan at the Danish port of Fredrikshavn. Located in the north of Demark on the east coast, Fredrikshavn is a…

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…