Ports & Harbours

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Independent marine plant and wind farm support vessel operator Fastnet Shipping Limited has completed a second successful jack-up barge and marine plant deployment on the GB£1.65bn Forth Replacement Crossing (FRC) project.

16th May 2012

Site investigations set scene for FRC project

16th May 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The director of a company contracted to carry out work on the development of a marina in Falmouth docks was sentenced at Truro Crown Court recently.

25th April 2012

Illegal dredging costs director dearly

25th April 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Planning permission has been granted to create one of the UK’s largest areas of new wildlife habitat on the Steart Peninsula in Somerset.

24th April 2012

New wetland to be created in Somerset

24th April 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Engineering firm Atkins has been chosen to design the new £5m Milford Haven Dock Lock in Pembrokeshire.

24th April 2012

Designers for Milford Haven Dock Lock

24th April 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

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…

20th April 2012

MEDCO dredging contract for ‘New Port Project’

20th April 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Work started recently on a £74,000 habitat replenishment research project on the Lymington River in the UK.

20th April 2012

Habitat replenishment on Lymington River

20th April 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

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.

19th April 2012

New pontoon for Gravesend Town Pier

19th April 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

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…

19th April 2012

Dredging to help Hamburg maintain box share

19th April 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Belgian company GEOXYZ recently completed a job in the UK which saw it provide precise positioning services for the piles for a new offshore jetty.

19th April 2012

Belgian services for offshore jetty

19th April 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Fugro Seacore has signed a contract relating to the design, build and installation of an offshore met mast to record and monitor site conditions on the proposed Rampion Offshore Wind Farm site…

6th April 2012

Fugro Seacore signs for met mast

6th April 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

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…

28th March 2012

Maasvlakte beach making progress

28th March 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

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.

28th March 2012

Enhancements will reduce waiting time

28th March 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

In January, MSC got under way with construction of a new container terminal in the Leeuwarden at the Port of Rotterdam. The sheet pile wall is already in place and pile driving…

27th March 2012

Construction of container terminal in Leeuwarden

27th March 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Jan de Nul has confirmed that its subsidiary, Compañía Sudamericana de Dragados SA, has been awarded a contract for capital and maintenance dredging in the port of Bahia Blanca, Argentina.

27th March 2012

Jan de Nul/Boskalis confirm JV in Argentina

27th March 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Besix in Belgium says it is due to complete work on a fourth lock at Lanaye in the province of Liège Belgium in 2015. The contract under which it is undertaking the…

27th March 2012

Besix at work on new Belgian lock

27th March 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

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.

26th March 2012

Masterplan for Dublin Port unveiled

26th March 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Van Oord and Besix have been awarded a design and construct contract to widen Rotterdam’s Amazonehaven seaport.

26th March 2012

Contract awarded to widen Amazonehaven

26th March 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

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.

23rd March 2012

EIAs for marine aggregates licences

23rd March 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

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.

23rd February 2012

Applications submitted for Green Port Hull

23rd February 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

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.

22nd February 2012

Armour installed using Echoscope sonar

22nd February 2012