Ports & Harbours

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Tanzania Harbours Authority has awarded a contract for improvements to the entrance channel to the Port of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to Ballast Ham Dredging (BHD).

21st May 2012

BHD Wins Contract in Tanzania

21st May 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Londonderry Port Harbour Master has announced that the barge Aoife recently started work on a new marine events pontoon’ in the vicinity of Queens Quay.

21st May 2012

Pontoon under construction at Londonderry

21st May 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Port of London Authority (PLA) crews are laying over three miles of mooring chains for vessels taking part in the Thames river pageant, which takes place on 3 June to mark the…

21st May 2012

Thames being made ready for Jubilee Pageant

21st May 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

TTS has designed, supplied and installed a tailor made linkspan for the Port of Rothesay in Scotland. The linkspan, part of the Rothesay Pier Ferry Berth Improvement Project, meets the stringent classification…

21st May 2012

More than 390,000 tons of rock has now been delivered to site, and the Side Stone Dumping Vessel (SSDV) Frans is on site to install the foundations for the south breakwater.

21st May 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

As vessel sizes steadily increase, so too do the pressures exerted on port infrastructure.

21st May 2012

Big berthing at Isle of Grain jetties

21st May 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Barcelona based TEAM Ports & Maritime has been awarded with a contract to design five Passenger Boarding Bridges for the new Kai Tak Cruise Terminal in Hong Kong.

21st May 2012

Spanish PBBs for Hong Kong terminal

21st May 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

ABPmer has been commissioned by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) to develop a 3D water quality model of the Forth Estuary. The model, once validated, will provide SEPA with a suitable…

21st May 2012

Three dimensional modelling for estuary

21st May 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Work started recently at Haifa Port in Israel to deepen the harbour to a depth of 17.5m, following authorisation for the project by Israel’s Ministry for Environmental Protection. The port hopes to…

21st May 2012

Deepening of Port of Haifa underway

21st May 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A £ 17 million coastal defence scheme in the UK is to get more than £ 12 million in Government grant aid, Floods Minister Elliot Morley has announced.

21st May 2012

Morley Announce £17m Coastal Defences

21st May 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

HR Wallingford and UK Port Advisers have announced an alliance aimed at improving service to clients and enhancing their offerings to market in both the UK and overseas.

21st May 2012

Alliance for HR Wallingford and UK Port Advisers

21st May 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The worlds first deepwater offshore wind farm is to be developed with government support from Scotland and the UK. Late last month, Scotlands First Minister Jack McConnell announced a research grant of…

21st May 2012

Funding for Deepwater Windfarm

21st May 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Three European countries - the UK, France and the Netherlands, are collaborating to produce an updated manual on the use of rock in hydraulic engineering.

21st May 2012

Tri-national Project to Produce Upgraded Rock Manual

21st May 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

At the beginning of this month, preparations began for the removal and repair of the Wellington Dock gates in the Port of Dover’s marina.

21st May 2012

Dover to repair Wellington Dock Gates

21st May 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

ARCADIS, the international design, consulting, engineering and management services company based in The Netherlands, has announced that, together with its subsidiary EC Harris, it has won a three-year framework contract with Abu…

21st May 2012

ARCADIS and EC Harris win Abu Dhabi project

21st May 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Reef Subsea has been awarded contract by Norske Shell for dredging in the Ormen Lange field. The company will use its newly-built Scanmachine 4 excavator to carry out the work. The objective…

21st May 2012

Ormen Lange field contract for Reef Subsea

21st May 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Inland Waterways Association (IWA) has announced that The Norfolk and Suffolk Broads in the UK are to be given an £800,000 grant to help find new ways of removing sediment in…

21st May 2012

Broads win EU research funds

21st May 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A significant growth in traffic has led Red Funnel , the original Isle of Wight ferry operator, to extend and refurbish two of its three 2,900 ton Raptor class vessels, Red Osprey…

21st May 2012

Linkspan Lifts Red Funnels Fortunes

21st May 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Work on extending operational areas at the Port of Kiel’s Norwegenkai Terminal has now been completed.

21st May 2012

Kiel completes Norwegenkai expansion works

21st May 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The first phase of a multi-million pound redevelopment project of Aberdeen Harbour’s Torry Quay has been completed.

18th May 2012

Aberdeen Harbour’s phase two works underway

18th May 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Ramboll has secured the key advisory role to the Poole Harbour Commissioners to help them finalise their long term development masterplan for the Port of Poole UK.

16th May 2012

Port of Poole planning underway

16th May 2012