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The company behind a luxury yacht marina development in Cornwall in the UK has been ordered to pay more than £600,000 after lying about dredging toxic sediment and dumping it in an…

20th February 2011

Developer fined

20th February 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Belgian dredging and marine civils giant Jan de Nul has secured more than €1bn worth of new projects.

20th February 2011

Jan de Nul wins €1bn in contracts

20th February 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Facts About Building with Nature, the latest publication from the International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC), is now available free of charge online or in print.

15th February 2011

Building with Nature publication launched

15th February 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Whitby Harbour is to benefit from £10,000 worth of lifting equipment after the Marine Management Organisation agreed its application for a grant from the European Fisheries Fund (EFF).

14th February 2011

£10,000 boost for Whitby harbour

14th February 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Bristol Port Company has contracted ABPmer to lead a team that will design and deliver a habitat creation scheme on the Steart Peninsula.

14th February 2011

Habitat creation scheme for Bristol

14th February 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Some 250,000 tons of waste material is needed to complete the infilling of one of the Tyne’s historic shipping docks in order to give the area much needed land for economic regeneration.

13th February 2011

Tyne contractor Sirius about your waste

13th February 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The world’s first commercial wave and tidal leasing round has resulted in 10 Scottish sites being designated for development, so the region has begun to grow its support and service facilities.

13th February 2011

Hatston Pier will suit renewables to a T

13th February 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Bristol Port Company has started the site investigation for the £600m deep sea container terminal in Avonmouth.

13th February 2011

Firm foundations for Bristol

13th February 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Danish parliament has selected the TEC immersed tunnel as the best solution for the fixed link between Denmark and Germany.

11th February 2011

Approval for Fehmarn Belt fixed link

11th February 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The UK’s Marine Management Organisation (MMO) announced last week that it is not allowing the application for the Port of Falmouth development initiative to proceed in its current form.

3rd February 2011

Algae in the way of port development

3rd February 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Contracting Without Limits, to be held on 23 and 24 June 2011 in London UK will bring together the main players of construction projects.

17th January 2011

Dredging associations organise contract management event

17th January 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) is working with Archipelago to provide visualisation and engagement tools to help people understand the meaning of coastal change and adaptation so that they can fully…

17th January 2011

ABPmer and Archipelago launch coastal adaptation communication service

17th January 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Dutch dredging and marine contractor Van Oord has completed a rock installation project on the Rio Negro pipeline crossing project in Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil. The client is the Brazilian oil and…

17th January 2011

Van Oord installs rock to protect Brazilian pipeline

17th January 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Aberdeen Harbour is to spend £8.5m dredging its entrance to allow ships to enter more frequently during bad weather.

17th January 2011

Aberdeen Harbour to be dredged

17th January 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

British Waterways is looking to the past to help preserve the future for one of the canals’ most loved but secretive species, the protected water vole.

17th January 2011

Kennet & Avon Canal dredged to help water voles

17th January 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Towards the end of December the last dredgers working on the Western Scheldt channel completed work and unloaded their final deposit of sand.

17th January 2011

Antwerp harbour celebrates completion of Scheldt dredging

17th January 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A joint venture of Dutch dredging majors Royal Boskalis Westminster and Van Oord has been awarded a contract by the Directorate General for Public Works and Water Management to reinforce part of…

17th January 2011

Boskalis and Van Oord create ‘sand engine’ to reinforce Dutch coastline

17th January 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Marine Conservation Zone project board in the UK has agreed to allow more time for the four regional MCZ projects to deliver their responsibilities.

17th January 2011

Extra time for the Marine Conservation Zone project

17th January 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Lerwick Port Authority’s continuing development of the harbour is moving into the next phase following the award of a £4.6m contract to create a new berth and related improvements at Greenhead Base.

17th January 2011

Contract launches next phase of major developments at Lerwick Harbour

17th January 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The company behind Germany’s second commercial offshore wind power facility in the Baltic, EnBW Energie, has signed a deal for a support and components assembly base in the deepwater port of Mukran.

8th December 2010

Offshore wind drives Mukran expansion

8th December 2010