Ports & Harbours

MEDCO (Middle East Dredging Company QSC) has been awarded a contract to dredge the approach channel for the ‘New Port Project’ in Qatar for the account of the New Port Project Steering…

A new pontoon and brow in which Opus International Consultants provided the engineering design, has been successfully installed off Town Pier at Gravesend in Kent UK.

Hamburg, Germany’s largest port, handled 132.2m tonnes of cargo in 2011, an increase of 9.1% compared with 2010, and is expected to gain additional benefits from a forthcoming dredging campaign in the…

The Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment in The Netherlands has announced that it is expanding the Maasgeul in order to reduce waiting times for ships entering the Port of Rotterdam.

The first part of the new beach along the Maasvlakte 2 container terminal in The Netherlands will be ready for use in May 2012. The rest of the beach will be accessible…

At the end of February, Leo Varadkar, TD, Irelands’s Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, launched Dublin Port Company’s Masterplan 2012 to 2040.

Hanson Marine Aggregates Limited has contracted ABPmer to prepare environmental statements to support a programme of marine aggregate licence renewals and applications in the Anglian Marine Aggregate Region.

In December, Associated British Ports (ABP) and Siemens plc announced that they are submitting applications to Hull City Council for the development of the proposed Green Port Hull facility.

The latest project involving the use of XBloc armoured units developed by Delta Marine Consultants (DMC) DMC in The Netherlands has seen them successfully trialled at Swinoujscie, Poland.

The Crown Estate has commissioned ABPmer to develop a regional wave and tidal model for the Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters strategic area.

The east German Baltic ferry port of Sassnitz-Mukran has already established itself as a base for the production of offshore wind farm components.

Trelleborg Marine Systems has been awarded a contract to supply a bespoke solution of 86 super cone fender systems, 59 mooring bollards with a 200 ton capacity, and 41 safety ladders for…

A £50m investment by Belfast Harbour to develop a new terminal for the assembly of offshore wind turbines is providing a major boost for the Northern Ireland construction and aggregate sectors.

Plans for one of the biggest port related construction projects ever undertaken in the Elbe community of Wedel-Schulau on the western outskirts of Hamburg have been outlined by local authorities.