Ports & Harbours

During the 1970’s the Scottish port of Ardersier was a key player in development of North Sea oil and gas and is now planning for another energy related boom to become a…

Changing trading patterns within the crude oil industry have led to changes in tanker berthing and oil storage arrangements at the Port of Rotterdam.

Poole UK based Jenkins Marine recently completed a complex contaminated spoil removal project at Millbay Inner Basin in what was their second involvement in recent years at Plymouth’s Millbay Dock.

One of the oldest bridges in central London is undergoing a major refurbishment and the only access for materials and personnel during the one year programme will be by water.

Tenders have been invited for the construction of a fifth lock on the Kiel Canal in Brunsbuettel, where old locks broke down in March halting shipping on the world’s busiest man-made waterway.

Despite teething problems and initial poor business, officials at Germany’s new €950m deepwater JadeWeserPort (JWP) container terminal are going ahead with a study into future expansion.

Multi-disciplinary Opus International Consultants (Opus) has been involved in an array of schemes focussed on preserving the important maritime infrastructure on the River Thames, in and around the Pool of London.

A huge reinforced concrete pontoon weighing almost 7,000 tonnes has floated out of dry dock on the north bank of the Tyne, marking a major milestone in a£25m Humberside port development.

Bringing in the 6,600 tonne steel sections of the recently opened Bacalan-Bastide elevating bridge from Italy to Bordeaux in France required the kind of innovative approach that is becoming common with the…

A major coastal defence project has been awarded to Ringwood Hampshire based Raymond Brown Construction by Havant Borough Council.

The Dutch province of Noord-Holland has awarded a major contract for complex renovation works at the 110 year old Wilhelmina Lock in Zaandam.

New pontoons for Yarmouth Harbour have been installed, using an innovative form of decking based on a sustainable substitute for tropical hardwood and preservative treated timber.

The tiny principality of Monaco is planning a development that will add 12.5 acres of development space to its land mass.

Flood prevention and coastal protection work has recently been completed at a Kent UK seaside resort that has in the past, experienced the devastating effects that storm surges can have on towns…

Twenty three years after Germany was reunited, work has begun on construction of a second lock at Zerben, the last major civil engineering project on the renovated Elbe-Havel Canal (EHK) linking the…

Dura Composites has been supplying its Dura Grating marine range with a commercial warranty of 25 years for decades but the proof really is in the pudding.