Ports & Harbours

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

Brunsbuettel Ports Elbehafen in north Germany has completed pier renovation and strengthening works costing €10m and part of a €20m infra and super-structure expansion programme aimed at improving the port’s deepwater handling…

Fishing fleet berthing bottlenecks which have plagued the small German North Sea port of Buesum in recent years have been eliminated with the completion of a new quay.

The Environment Agency has started a bidding process for a multi-million pound contract to manage London’s tidal flood risk.

There’s no doubt that the Sundsvall Bridge, Sweden, is going to be striking.

European container ports are now gaining first-hand experience of Maersk’s Triple-E container ships with delivery and entry into service of Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller, first of twenty such vessels on order.

The Weser port of Brake is inaugurating a new warehouse complex, the Halle Nord, this month

Odfjell Terminals Europe has signed an agreement with Grand Port Maritime du Havre (GPMH) for the reservation of a plot of land to be developed into a bulk liquid terminal.

The UK Environment Agency (EA) has given the go-ahead for a £36m sea defence scheme for the Essex coast aimed at protecting over 3,000 homes for the next 100 years.

Officials on the German North Sea island of Borkum in the Ems Estuary have inaugurated new storm protection barriers after two and a half years of complex building.

The RoRo facility for Berth No. 1 has been completely refurbished at ADM Kiel by Nobiskrug GmbH and installed.

Orcades Marine, an Orkney based marine consultancy company, is about to commence a research and development study on the prospect of a Floating Container Storage and Transhipment Terminal (FCSTT) in Scapa Flow.

Lyngby Denmark based construction company, E. Pihl & Søn AS has filed for bankruptcy, threatening a number of major projects including works at Aarhus and Copenhagen harbours.

The UK’s Environment Agency has announced work is set to begin building an earth embankment to provide vital flood protection from the sea at Easton Broad, south of Lowestoft in Suffolk.

Peel Ports has awarded a contract to a joint venture comprising BAM Nuttall and Van Oord for construction of the new £300m Liverpool2 Container Terminal on the Mersey estuary.

United Waalhaven Terminals (UWT) and the Port of Rotterdam Authority have reached agreement for construction of a new quay on the Prins Johan Frisohaven, partly to handle empty containers.

Thanet District Council’s Harbour Master Rob Brown is certain that Ramsgate is a port whose time has come – again.