Ports & Harbours

A tender has been issued for harbour construction work at Rauma in Finland.

Fugro EMU has been appointed to undertake a full Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and prepare an Environmental Statement (ES) in relation to the expansion of Aberdeen Harbour in the UK.

Engineering and development consultancy, Mott MacDonald, has been appointed by Deepwater Container Terminal Gdansk (DCT Gdansk) in Poland to carry out construction work for a new €160m quay.

A new and unique flood defence scheme for the seaside resort of Katwijk in The Netherlands is to include the dual features of vital coastal protection and the inclusion of an underground…

Construction of the new detached breakwater at Cowes is about to commence with the appointment of Dutch maritime services provider Boskalis Westminster to undertake the £7m project.

The European Union is committing more than €14m from the TEN-T programme to co-finance a project to re-vamp the infrastructure of the Port of Stockholm to help realise the ‘Nordic Triangle’.

Seawork exhibitor Opus International Consultants of Fareham UK served as lead designer for a complex project to build a new lifeboat station integrated with the cast iron lattice structure of the existing…

Portsmouth International Port is currently upgrading the mooring systems on two of its ferry berths, aimed at making the arrival and departure process faster and safer.

Twice a year the UK trust port of Shoreham carries out operations managing the continuous natural transfer of coastline shingle, showing that operating a small port is about more than just providing…

The UK’s Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has issued a notice asking that anyone considering urgent works following the recent flooding contact them first to establish if a marine licence is required.

Experts from HR Wallingford have joined other with colleagues in France from far and wide to present the findings from two international collaborative projects.

An upgraded €17m intermodal terminal billed as more efficient is going into full operation in the German Baltic port of Rostock in February and is expected to double handling capacity.

The UK east coast port town of Lowestoft is planning flood defence measures in response to a recent study predicting flood events such as seen in 1953 will become a relatively frequent…