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.

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…

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…

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

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.

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

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.

Construction, aggregates and building firm Brett has provided details of a restoration project it completed earlier this year on an aggregates extraction site in Kent.

Associated British Ports (ABP), the UK’s largest ports owner and operator, and Europe’s largest nature conservation organisation, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), have signed a landmark agreement for…

Delta Marine Consultants (DMC) in The Netherlands has been awarded a contract in connection with a redevelopment project in Singapore and the construction of a ‘floating pod.’

Early December saw the start of a programme of maintenance dredging at Northney Marina on the south coast of the UK.

Royal Haskoning’s Weston-super-Mare Sea Defences project in the UK has been shortlisted for the 2010 Concrete Society Awards.

A collaborative approach between Birse Civils and the UK’s Environment Agency for an innovative, sustainable solution to strengthening the flood defences at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire received national recognition at the British Construction Industry…

Grontmij in Denmark recently secured a contract from the Port of Hanstholm for a major expansion project.