Ports & Harbours

The GATE terminal, the very first Dutch LNG import facility, which is now being constructed on Maasvlakte’s former ‘Papegaaiebek’ location is proceeding rapidly.

With offshore windfarm construction now in full swing around Europe’s shores attention is turning to the establishment of a Europe wide interconnector grid to share the benefits of this new green form…

Worthing Borough Council on the UK south coast is currently performing essential maintenance to the timber framed landing stage that surrounds the end of the West Sussex town’s approximate 150 year old…

Construction of Germany’s €1bn deepwater JadeWeser Port (JWP) at Wilhelmshaven on the North Sea is on track despite political wrangling over opening dates.

Recent weeks have seen a number of important milestones in the Maasvlakte 2 project at the Port of Rotterdam. March saw construction start on the first deep-sea quay at the new facility,…

The Bollhörnkai berth in Kiel, Germany, which is currently being updated and rebuilt for use by Stena Line for the Gothenburg ferry route, also requires the installation of an adjustable main deck…

The latest project of Delta Marine Consultants in The Netherlands is to make use of XBloc armoured units in the breakwater for a LNG terminal in Northwest Australia.

An enterprising Fareham UK based company is tackling the problem facing many marine construction and dive support contractors when they need to source vessel hire, tools packages and other equipment from a…

Bristol port has been given the governmental green light for developing a deep sea container terminal (DSCT) at its Avonmouth Dock.

All RNLI lifeboat stations are located strategically, explains Tim Ash of the RNLI, and the Isle of Wight’s Bembridge station with its all-weather vessel is often called on to work in conjunction…

A quay is being built at Peterhead Harbour in Scotland which has been especially designed to take the sting out of the waves hitting it.

As part of Babcock Marine’s upgrade of facilities at Scotland’s Rosyth Dockyard to prepare for assembly of the Royal Navy’s two new QE class aircraft carriers, the entrance to the yard’s No…

Major work started in earnest on 16 March at the site of DP World - London Gateway, the UK’s new £1.5bn deep sea port and logistics park, located in the Thames estuary…

Aberdeen Harbour Board has awarded a £14m contract to construction company McLaughlin & Harvey for the first phase of the Torry Quay redevelopment. The Northern Ireland firm will undertake works on the…

Real-time visualisation of work on a major port expansion project in northwest Spain is benefiting from the use of a CodaOctopus sonar.

Delta Marine Consultants in The Netherlands says a new breakwater for an LNG terminal in Northwest Australia is to be built using its Xbloc interlocking armoured units.