Ports & Harbours

TTS Port Equipment is about to start building a new linkspan for the port of Ystad in the south of Sweden, due for handover in March 2009. Ystad is a significant port…

Global warming will bring with it increased storminess, making stretches of the coastline more vulnerable to flooding and erosion. One way of protecting against this is to build detached breakwaters parallel to…

The last container terminal extension on deep water in Bremerhaven, the CT 1V, was inaugurated   the 12th of this month, a year earlier than planned and just in time to take…

The UK energy company E.ON announced plans last month to build one of UKs largest biomass power stations at the Port of Bristol.

The two major Dutch dredging contractors Van Oord and Royal Boskalis Westminster nv have been awarded a contract by the Dutch Directorate General for Public Works and Water Management to reinforce a…

The creation of tidal marshes on the mudflat side of the Dutch Closure Dike (Afsluitdijk) will provide the Netherlands with a sea defense, a new nature area as well as recreation opportunities.

Doncaster UK based Soil Mechanics has been awarded a £ 1.4 million ground investigation contract from power company EDF Energy for the proposed construction of an offshore wind farm located in the…

Port Khorfakkan is Sharjahs sole port on the Indian Ocean and is dedicated entirely to container handling. Expansion works are well underway to extend the present quay of 1460m by a further…

A total of 10 Eco-Xbloc armoured units have been placed on the southern breakwater at Ijmuiden in The Netherlands in order to evaluate their ability to play a role creating habitats for…

Construction was finally starting this month on the ¢ 1bn first phase of Rotterdams giant new North Sea Maasvlakte 2 complex, which will eventually house deepsea container, distribution and chemical industry facilities…

A £ 400m contract was signed last month which will launch the first stage of construction for DP World' s £ 1.5bn London Gateway container port and business park development at the…

Work has started on expanding the capacity of the UKs largest container port. The first stages of the Felixstowe South Reconfiguration (FSR) involved demolition of the old dock basin and buildings, demolition…

Maritime Journal joins the UK Environment Agency, Birse Coastal,and SCOPAC (Standing Conference On Problems Associated with the Coastline) insponsoring the International Conference on Coastal Management, which will beheld at the Mercure Holland…

The Antwerp based shipping company EXMAR NV has applied tothe Zeebrugge Port Authority (MBZ) fora domain concession for the construction of a discharging and ship to shiptransfer installation for LNG and high…

A metocean design has been completed for the proposed Round2 Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm, planned for the southern North Sea offthe UKs North Norfolk coast, just inside the 12 mile territorial…

German authorities investing a total of ¢ 37.5mup to 2009 in the expansion of the growing seaport of Brake on the Lower Weser have now commissioned the construction of anew ¢ 14.5m…

Moroccan authorities definitely met the deadlines on TangerMed port project,as APM Terminals Tangier, a subsidiary of AP-Moller Maersk, inaugurated the firstcontainer terminal of the huge complex on 27th July, the concessionof which…

Two new expansion projects, one completedand one still to come, will further increase container handling in Germanysbiggest seaport Hamburg.