Ports & Harbours

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A £3m West Quay has been built at A&P Tyne’s ship repair and fabrication yard, part of a massive investment programme undertaken by the Group in the past three years.

29th April 2011

New quay for the Tyne

29th April 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Facilities at the south east UK port of Ramsgate are once again being upgraded with the installation of new breakwaters, pontoons and additional dredging work.

28th April 2011

Further harbour work at Ramsgate

28th April 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Broads Authority in the UK has set its budget for the coming year, taking account of the reductions in its National Park Grant.

28th April 2011

Budget set for the Broads

28th April 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) in the UK has announced the findings of an independent review into licensed activities at the Rame Head disposal site near Plymouth.

26th April 2011

MMO announces findings of independent review of disposal site

26th April 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

More than £1.9 million European funding has been approved for the English fishing industry during March 2011.

25th April 2011

£1.9 million funding boost for fishing industry

25th April 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Grontmij | Carl Bro in Denmark has signed a major contract with the Port of Hanstholm for a major expansion of the port.

24th April 2011

Major expansion of the Port of Hanstholm planned

24th April 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Dublin Port Company has announced the commencement of a wide ranging, public consultation process to devise a masterplan for the long term development of Dublin Port, Ireland’s most important port.

23rd April 2011

Dublin Port Company unveils new masterplan

23rd April 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond officially opened a new £30m deepwater berth at Peterhead Port on 21 March.

21st April 2011

First Minister opens new facility at Port of Peterhead

21st April 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Work is nearing completion on the Netherlands first LNG import terminal at Rotterdam in a project involving previously reclaimed land being given back to the sea.

17th March 2011

Rotterdam prepares for LNG imports

17th March 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

PD Ports has commenced the ground works at its Teesport container handling facilities on the North East coast, as part of a multi-million pound expansion project.

14th March 2011

PD ports starts work on Teesport facilities

14th March 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Port of Rotterdam Authority in the Netherlands says around 190m cu/m of sand has now been put in place for the project to form new land which will be protected on…

14th March 2011

Soft sea defence take shape at Maasvlakte 2

14th March 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) has developed a free tool for those marine conservation planners that are running Marxan software in parallel with ESRI ArcGIS 10, the latest upgrade of the…

14th March 2011

ABPmer develops too for marine planners

14th March 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Forth Ports Plc has confirmed that Kirkcaldy Harbour in the UK is to reopen to cargo vessels after more than two decades out of use.

14th March 2011

Kirkcaldy Harbour to re-open

14th March 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Maintenance dredging of the visitor berths at Sparkes Marina on the south coast of the UK got under way early in March.

14th March 2011

Maintenance dredging enhances marina

14th March 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Van Oord in the Netherlands has confirmed that it has signed a contract with the Ministry of Transport of Azerbaijan for the new Baku International Sea Trade Port in the Alat settlement…

14th March 2011

Van Oord wins contract in Azerbaijan

14th March 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Mott MacDonald is playing an ongoing role in a project to help manage and protect the coast of Felixstowe in the UK from coastal erosion. The client for the project is Suffolk…

14th March 2011

Ongoing role for Mott MacDonald at Felixstowe

14th March 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

An excavator formed an unusual yet highly effective partnership with a dredging vessel on the Lincolnshire coast in the UK last summer.

7th March 2011

Reliability is first priority for project

7th March 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Dredging International and affiliate MEDCO have been awarded a contract for the dredging and civil engineering works required to build two artificial ‘energy islands’ for the Satah al-Razboot (SARB) offshore oilfield.

7th March 2011

Artificial islands for UAE

7th March 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

British Waterways in the UK is now several weeks into a £250,000 dredging scheme on the Kennet & Avon Canal.

28th February 2011

Kennet & Avon Canal dredging underway

28th February 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Biologge AS and AquaBlok Ltd have announced the completion of several different innovative activated carbon based products for sediment capping and in-situ treatment.

28th February 2011

New sediment technology for Norway

28th February 2011