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…

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…

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

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…

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

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…

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…

A new Nakdong Barrier, a barrier on the Nakdong River in South Korea, is to be built using a design developed by engineering consultancy DHV. The current barrier is 20 years old…

TTS Port Equipment has secured a raft of contracts for port gangways in recent weeks, and delivered and installed a number of linkspans.

Netherlands based engineering consultancy DHV is going to improve the navigability on 250km of the Mekong River in Vietnam.

Construction has begun of a new ‘ heavy lift’ inland port costing about € 32m at Rendsburg on the Kiel Canal, the world’ s busiest manmade waterway, linking the Baltic and the…

Following the Venice Port Authority’ s push for a 16m draft in one of its navigation channels, the authority has responded to the accusation that its dredging works in the Venice lagoon…

Scrabster Harbour Trust in the UK has drawn up an extensive blueprint for further development of the harbour. The key target markets for the development are offshore oil and gas activity to…