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PORTS & HARBOURS

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Consultancy Royal Haskoning has provided an update on the proposed development of a new port at Baku in Azerbaijan, and says dredging work there should commence later this year.

8th April 2010

Baku port dredging to commence later this year – by David Foxwell

8th April 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Real-time visualisation of work on a major port expansion project in northwest Spain is benefiting from the use of a CodaOctopus sonar.

8th April 2010

Sonar brings real-time visualisation to breakwater construction – by David Foxwell

8th April 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Following an order the company received last year to design and install two double-tier linkspans for Copenhagen Malmö Port, TTS Port Equipment AB has been given the go ahead to supply a…

8th April 2010

Automatic mooring system for Copenhagen Malmö – by David Foxwell

8th April 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Delta Marine Consultants in The Netherlands says a new breakwater for an LNG terminal in Northwest Australia is to be built using its Xbloc interlocking armoured units.

15th March 2010

Xbloc project in Australia – by David Foxwell

15th March 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Stena Line (UK) has recently announced plans to move its operations and ferry service from their present location in Stranraer, Scotland to a new port facility 10km north of the town, and…

15th March 2010

TTS wins comprehensive contract for new Stena port

15th March 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Dredging got underway at the Port of Ramsgate in the UK at the end of February, a project which will enable larger and deeper draft vessels to enter Ramsgate’s commercial port.

15th March 2010

Dredging under way at Port of Ramsgate in UK – by David Foxwell

15th March 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Bids are being invited for the redevelopment and upgrade of the Old Fish Market Pier at Scrabster Harbour in Caithness in Scotland.

15th March 2010

Scrabster Harbour Trust invites bids for major re-development – by David Foxwell

15th March 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Dredging has finally got underway on the Dutch parts of the River Scheldt. Dredging on the Flanders (Belgian) side of the river was completed in 2007, but dredging on the Dutch side…

15th March 2010

Scheldt dredging to be completed more quickly than first planned – by David Foxwell

15th March 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Belgium’s Jan De Nul Group has been awarded a contract for the reclamation of the ‘Lido Boulevard’ in Malaysia.

15th March 2010

Jan De Nul Group wins project in Malaysia – by David Foxwell

15th March 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A former naval base on The Orkney Islands in the UK is to be the subject of a £3m redevelopment effort to help the islands obtain work from the fast growing offshore…

15th March 2010

Former naval base in The Orkneys to be developed – by David Foxwell

15th March 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

AF Decom Offshore UK Limited, a subsidiary of AF Gruppen in Norway, and Lerwick Port Authority in the UK have announced that they have entered into an Exclusivity Agreement with the intention…

15th March 2010

AF Decom and Port of Lerwick to develop decommissioning base – by David Foxwell

15th March 2010

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