Ports & Harbours

The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) and American company Cargill have formed a joint venture to develop a new grain terminal at the Ukrainian port of Yuzhny on the Black Sea coast.

Medium-scale Spanish wind turbine manufacturer, Norvento, has begun construction on a 200kW twin turbine site at Shoreham Port on the UK’s South Coast.

Being completed by April in the east German Baltic port of Rostock is the nine-month rebuilding of Pier 7, a facility seen as strategically essential for the future of the port’s Warnemünde…

Two new multi-purpose, eco-friendly icebreakers have gone into service in Germany’s biggest seaport, Hamburg, and will be followed by an even bigger pair of all-rounders later this year.

Italian dredging equipment manufacturer Dragflow recently supplied a Remote controlled dredge for a harbour dredging project in Italy’s Marina Sveva.

In 2015 for the first time in its history the Belgian port of Antwerp passed the 200 million tonne mark for the volume of freight handled, by a wide margin.

Every marine operator and boat owner at some point has experienced problems and challenges associated with safe and secure mooring, changing tides, river levels and conditions.

The design and development of a new container terminal in the port of Naples in Italy has posed considerable challenges because it has been heavily polluted in the past.

Already well advanced in the heart of Europe’s second biggest port – Hamburg - are extensive works to improve accessibility and manoeuverability for big container and cruise ships.