Ports & Harbours

Staffordshire based Durapipe UK has seen its global ambitions fulfilled yet again with a marine installation half way around the world. The companys P-LX secondary contained fuel system pipework has been installed…

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has urged politicians to look seriously at the option of a new airport in the Thames Estuary after he visited the potential site with engineers and…

Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN) and Deltares in The Netherlands are playing a key role in Gijón Port Authoritys plans to extend the port, including construction of new basin seaward of the…

A planning application has been submitted in to Chichester District Council in the UK to recycle some 15,000 tons of sand and shingle into the vulnerable hinge and neck area of East…

Dutch consultancy and engineering firm DHV is developing fourteen new fishing harbours and landing sites in Ghana.

The new site for a WWII German U-boat, U-534, planned as a new tourist attraction on Merseyside in the UK, was reinforced by the swift installation of Tensar’ s TriAx geogrid to…

Royal Haskoning has been appointed to provide environmental consultancy and support to Scira Offshore Energy in its construction of the ‘ Sheringham Shoal’ wind farm off the coast of Norfolk. A major…

Total E& P UK has expanded its logistics support facility at Aberdeen Harbour in a move significantly improving efficiency, flexibility and safety of operations.

Barcelona based TEAM has been awarded a contract by Harwich International Port to design, manufacture and deliver a moveable and modern Passenger Boarding Bridge (PBB) of the SEDNA range. This PBB will…

The dredger/pumping station Sliedrecht 27 has been repositioned to Jaywick, near Clacton on the Essex coast, where it has been deployed as a booster station on a € 13m beach nourishment contract…

Dutch consultancy and engineering group DHV has completed its masterplan for a new port and industrial complex to be developed to the east of Port Said in Egypt.

Construction has begun in Kiel of the € 16m Schwedenkai Terminal, the third ferry and cruise ship handling facility in the Baltic port city which says it is Germany’ s most popular…

Energy companies, civil engineers, shipbuilders and regional development agencies met in London last month to discuss the feasibility of building clean energy wind farms in deep waters offshore of the UK.

The final precast units supplied by Macrete, the specialist Northern Ireland based precast concrete engineers, have been lowered into place recently for the 1,000m wave wall being constructed by BAM Nuttall Ltd…

Europe’ s first artificial surf reef is being built in Boscombe, Bournemouth and is set to put Bournemouth firmly on the UK surf map. It will act as a ramp, pushing waves…

Delta Marine Consultants (DMC) in The Netherlands has opened a 2-D wave flume facility equipped with a wave generator to assist with ongoing research work on the Xbloc, its popular armoured coastal…

A £ 20m coastal protection and environmental enhancement scheme at Cleveleys seafront in the UK has won an award in the British Construction Industry (BCI) Awards. After being shortlisted in five different…