Ports & Harbours

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A severe winter, which halted construction for about two months, has been the main reason for a delay in the completion of Bremerhaven’s crucial new €233m Kaiserschleuse sea lock until next March.

26th August 2010

Bad winter delays completion of new lock

26th August 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Mallorca based Naviera Daedalus Servicos Maritimos has completed three years of extensive work expanding the Port Adriano leisure marine complex situated in the south west of the island.

26th August 2010

Determined contractor defeats weather

26th August 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Accelerated Low Water Corrosion (ALWC) has taken its toll on the structural integrity of ports, harbours, marinas and commercial water frontage for many years.

5th August 2010

‘Simple’ solution to ALWC problems

5th August 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The small German port of Brake on the Lower Weser is taking advantage of a financing cooperation contract with local interests and the current economic situation to invest in a second berth…

5th August 2010

Brake second berth expansion under way

5th August 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

An expansion by Oresund DryDocks AB is underway, following an acquisition that has given the company around 170,000 square metres of land to help meet the coming growth – not just in…

5th August 2010

Size matters for Oresund

5th August 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Specially designed cantilever brackets have saved a Scottish harbour authority almost a fifth of its project costs by reducing diving time by around eight weeks.

5th August 2010

New approach sees iicorr save Mallaig Harbour £100,000

5th August 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

DP World Southampton is upgrading its shipside capabilities by deepening its container berths and purchasing further ship to shore cranes. It’s a much needed addition to the port’s capabilities, as vessels continue…

4th August 2010

Marine works facilitate Southampton terminal upgrade

4th August 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The International Association of Dredging Contractors (IADC) has published a new publication, Facts About Environmental Monitoring, which is available free of charge online and in print.

15th July 2010

New publication from IADC

15th July 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

ABP Marine Environmental Research Limited (ABPmer) has launched a new website dedicated to marine planning practice at: www.abpmer.net/marine-planning.

15th July 2010

ABPMer focuses on marine planning

15th July 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Gwynedd Council in Wales has unveiled a project to expand Caernarfon’s Victoria Dock, creating berths for 45 vessels.

15th July 2010

Council unveils plan to develop Caernarfon Dock

15th July 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

DEME in Belgium says it currently has a total of six cutter suction dredgers working together in Abu Dhabi on the Ruwais site for Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC).

15th July 2010

Six cutter suction dredgers at work on ADNOC project

15th July 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

DHI Group in Denmark says it recently completed the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for what will be the world’s largest wind farm when completed.

15th July 2010

EIA for world’s largest windfarm completed

15th July 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

UK based Eredene Capital Plc has won a bid to build and operate the container terminal at Ennore Port in Tamil Nadu in India. The estimated project cost of the Ennore Container…

15th July 2010

Eredene Capital wins Indian project

15th July 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

PD Ports has announced that it will channel significant investment into the first phase of expansion plans at Teesport in the UK, which will potentially involve some £29m of total investment.

15th July 2010

PD Ports confirms investment in Teesport

15th July 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The South African Institution of Civil Engineering at Durban in South Africa has awarded Mott MacDonald of the UK its ‘Most Outstanding Civil Engineering Project Award’ for the widening of the entrance…

15th July 2010

Durban Harbour project wins award

15th July 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Belgian dredging company DEME and Dutch dredging company Boskalis have been awarded an important contract in Mexico.

15th July 2010

DEME/Boskalis joint venture wins work in Mexico

15th July 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

More than 20 years after it gave up on a new port in the Dollart Hafen, the north German port city of Emden is reviving plans for an additional port.

3rd June 2010

Emden plans new deepwater port

3rd June 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Malta, explains Nigel West of ABPMer, has an enormous strategic importance for the marine industry, and consequently an equally large maritime built environment. This in itself generates a background complexity for marine…

28th May 2010

Complex considerations for Maltese breakwater project

28th May 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The use of concrete in maritime engineering – a good practice manual (C674) will be launched on 8 July 2010 in London by the Construction Industry Research & Information Association (CIRIA).

27th May 2010

Concrete evidence that change is needed

27th May 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Prince Filip of Belgium recently visited a remediation project being executed by DEME subsidiary DEC during his visit to Brazil on behalf of Flanders Investment & Trade.

27th May 2010

Belgian Prince visits DEME project in Brazil

27th May 2010