Ports & Harbours

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Hugely impressive but temporary engineering achievements will be only footnotes to the successful completion of ongoing works at Rosyth Dockyard in Scotland.

13th March 2010

Work In Progress: Rosyth refurbishment fit for a Queen

13th March 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Glasgow UK based marine environmental consultancy Partrac Ltd has made a worldwide agency agreement (excluding Australia) for Sediview software.

11th March 2010

Partrac in Sediview software agency agreement

11th March 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A study led by ABPmer on options for taking account of social-economic factors in the planning of marine protected areas (MPA) networks, has been published by Defra in the UK.

11th March 2010

MPA study published by Defra

11th March 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The authorities in Abu Dhabi are reportedly on track to complete by US$409m project to construct a channel that will improve access to the Mussafah industrial zone by the middle of 2010.

11th March 2010

Abu Dhabi ‘on track’ with Mussafah dredging

11th March 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

DHI in Denmark says it believes its MIKE hydrodynamic modelling software has a key role to play in dredging operations where there may be contaminated sediment.

11th March 2010

DHI sees key role for modelling software

11th March 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Jan de Nuls new mining and fallpipe vessel ‘Simon Stevin’ has departed for Australia for its first two rock dumping projects; a free span correction on the Pluto pipeline in 80m of…

11th March 2010

‘Simon Stevin’ to start work offshore Australia

11th March 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Belgian Jan De Nul Group has signed a contract for the deepening of Umm Qasr Port in the southernmost tip of Iraq, near the border with Kuwait. The port is Iraq’s…

11th March 2010

Jan De Nul Group awarded dredging project in Iraq

11th March 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The £1.2m Stanah Sea Defences project for the Environment Agency (EA) in the UK has been awarded a Project Excellence Award for ‘Health and Safety/Managing Environmental Risk’.

11th March 2010

Birse Civils collect award for Stanah sea defences

11th March 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Although aspects of the project are still subject to review, dredging work for the London Gateway port project is to get under way in March, according to the dredging contractor who will…

11th March 2010

London Gateway dredging about to get under way

11th March 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Dutch cartographers face the task of redrawing their maps of Holland due to the country growing in size by a few square kilometres. The Maasvlakte 2 port expansion project in Rotterdam has…

4th March 2010

Dutch coastline redrawn as Maasvlakte 2 takes shape – by Peter Barker

4th March 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Great Yarmouths new outer harbour at EastPort UK opened last month with global port group PSA International, grain business Gleadell Agricultural Ltd, and crushed rock supplier Stema Shipping (UK) Ltd all in…

4th March 2010

£80m outer harbour at Great Yarmouth opens

4th March 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Work is underway on a project to rescue an ageing quay structure that is essential to the future of a regional fishing industry.

26th February 2010

Multi-million pound rescue for Western Quay

26th February 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The latest specialist watertight sealing solution delivered by Dutch specialist Beele Engineering involves the immersion tunnel near the South Korean city of Busan that is being immersed by Mergor, a subsidiary of…

25th February 2010

Dutch seal a deal in South Korea

25th February 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Local German authorities have completed the deepening of a 23.7km stretch of the northern Peene River to allow bigger ships to reach Wolgast.

18th February 2010

Peene deepening opens access for bigger ships

18th February 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Two scientists based in Brighton on the south coast of the UK and a Franco-British partnership have been awarded €5 million to find safe disposal methods for dredged marine sediments.

11th February 2010

Scientists awarded €5m for dredging research – by David Foxwell

11th February 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The German North Sea port of Cuxhaven has completed the construction and installation of two new flood barriers which together cost €19m and are the hub of flood defences costing the city…

11th February 2010

Cuxhaven gets new flood defence barriers

11th February 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Three Dutch companies have come together to develop an innovative flood defence concept calledBoxBarrier. The three companies, Delta Marine Consultants (BAM Infraconsult), Movares and Groep Midden Betuwe, began collaborating on the concept…

14th January 2010

BoxBarrier concept can alleviate flood risk

14th January 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Construction of a major sea lock that should simplify large vessel access to the area around the Port of Amsterdam is a step nearer reality after a finance covenant for the project…

14th January 2010

Progress made on new sea lock for Port of Amsterdam

14th January 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Real estate development company GREDCO, which is based in  Bahrain in the Middle East, has invited bids for a major dredging project for the  Marsa al-Seef development. GREDCO is the development manager…

14th January 2010

Bids sought for Marsa al-Seef marina project

14th January 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Work on tackling flooding risks at Pagham Beach on the south coast of the UK will start shortly after funding of more than £ 500,000 was secured by Arun District Council. Funds…

14th January 2010

Pagham flood risks to be tackled

14th January 2010