Ports & Harbours

Waterways Ireland is upgrading moorings and services on the Grand Canal in Sallins, Co Kildare creating houseboat moorings, to be ready for the new boat season in 2014.

The Broads Authority (UK) has begun the dredging of Heigham Sound signalling final stages of the innovative reed bed creation at Duck Broad, also increasing water depths for small boat owners.

Plans to improve facilities at the Port of Ramsgate have received a boost with the awarding of funding for a feasibility study into expansion that will build on the recent success of…

Femern A/S has revealed details of the effects, and how they will deal with the environmental impact of dredging the channel for the immersed sections of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel.

Britain’s new DP World London Gateway Port welcomed its first scheduled container ship, the MOL Caledon from South Africa, on 7 November.

UK based BMT Group have completed a series of studies to identify and assess the various impacts of larger vessels that will be using the new Seaforth Liverpool2 container terminal.

If you are a budding or even a serving dike inspector you may be hoping Santa brings you one of Deltares ‘serious gaming’ Levee Patroller training aids for Christmas, its developer recently…

Completion of a large scale project to protect the residents of an area straddling both the Netherlands and Flanders has been marked with the signing of a new Declaration of Intent for…

The Dutch Delft University of Technology, Royal HaskoningDHV, and Iv Infra are exploring possible designs for a storm surge barrier off the coast of Houston USA.

Netherlands based APM Terminals has signed contracts with the Van Oord-BAM consortium for the construction of the new Moin Container Terminal, known locally as ‘Terminal de Contenedores de Moín’ (TCM), now in…

Ports of Normandy Authority (PNA) is forging ahead with the extension of the Quai des Flamands in Cherbourg.

UK workboat operator Jenkins Marine has been helping Bam Nuttall construct a new lifeboat station at Porthdinllaen for the RNLI.

Finnish gas supply company Gasum Oy’s proposal for an LNG import terminal in southern Finland has received a boost with acceptance of the environmental impact assessment report.

A major Colombian flood control contract has been awarded Netherlands based Royal HaskoningDHV, aimed at preventing a repeat of the catastrophic La Niña disaster in 2010.

An important milestone with the project to protect Venice from flooding from high tides has passed with successful testing of four floodgates.