Ports & Harbours

British architect Lord Foster used a recent lecture at the University of Oxford to reveal more details of the recently proposed ‘Thames Hub’ (see MJ NOV 2011).

Construction of Norway’s planned 25 km Rogfast Tunnel, which will be the longest submerged tunnel in the world and also the deepest, is now not expected to get under way until the…

Construction officially began on Monday in the Port of Antwerp for construction of the €340m Deurganck lock, the second lock on the left bank.

The German Baltic port of Kiel, which has invested over €60m in new passenger and freight facilities over the past five years, is now planning more investment to boost cargo and cope…

London Gateway, the new port and logistics centre project currently under construction in the lower reaches of the River Thames, will open in the fourth quarter of 2013 with an initial capacity…

The continuing development of facilities and services at Lerwick Harbour in Scotland is reinforcing and evolving the port’s role in supporting the offshore oil and gas industry across its range of operations.

The Port of Felixstowe, the UK’s largest container port, formally opened a new deep water shipping terminal on 28 September 2011.

The Port of Rotterdam Authority’s (PRA), Maasvlakte 2 port development is on schedule to welcome the first ship in 2013.

The construction of the second lock in the Port of Antwerp’s Waaslandhaven is scheduled to start this month.

To better understand how breakwaters function and to perfect their products, SF Marinas team collaborates with professional research institutes throughout the world.

The Port of Rostock says construction is on track “within a very tight and ambitious time frame” at its new €22m ferry Berth 54 due to open next spring to meet rising…

The refurbished docks in Bristol were officially opened this summer, following Opus’ work on the scheme to ensure the future effective working of Bristol Docks and to reinforce the city’s flood defences.

The Hague based International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has released the latest in its popular series of Facts About executive summaries.

The final construction countdown has begun at the JadeWeser Port (JWP) container terminal in Wilhelmshaven, now due on stream in a year, but rail link development could be delayed.

The first ever floating jetty project on England’s Lake Windermere has been completed by Falmouth based Marine Designs Ltd, part of the A&P Group.

Hamburg based port and logistics group Buss has processed the first cargo ship at its newly acquired multi-purpose Orange Blue Terminal in the Dutch North Sea deepwater port of Eemshaven.