Ports & Harbours

The Port of Lerwick in the UK says concepts have been drawn up for deep water port infrastructure capable of accommodating the largest heavy lift vessels. The plans include 20m deep berths…

A license agreement has been signed by Delta Marine Consultants in The Netherlands and BAM International for the application of Xbloc armoured units on the breakwaters for the Dikkowita Fishery Harbour in…

As part of Germany’ s WSV and the Bundersministerium’ s River Neckar, the twin Guttenbach Locks were first built in 1939 with a second lock being added in 1955.

Cavotec MSL has successfully completed commissioning of Scandinavia’ s first fully automated vacuum-based mooring system, MoorMaster, with Danish ferry operator Nordic Ferry Services (NFS).

Durapipe UK’ s fuel supply system has been specified for a new luxury marina development in Costa Rica.

Germany’ s &euro

s growing Lower Weser port of Brake is expected to start before the end of the year and be completed by the end of 2010.

When one of the foundation piles at the Gunfleet Sands Wind Farm off the coast of Essex UK was unable to be driven into the seabed  any further, the local firm of…

Consulting engineering firm Royal Haskoning has been engaged by The Peel Group to prepare a masterplan for the Port of Sheerness in Kent. This is the preface to a fifteen year regeneration…

As reported in Maritime Journal (June 2009), the Port of Rotterdam is undertaking their most ambitious project ever with Maasvlakte 2, the expansion of the port beyond the existing coastline bordering the…

Aberaeron is a pretty Edwardian coastal harbour town on the west coast of mid-Wales that has recently been discovered by tourists. But unless a bid to stem the destructive effects that the…

There’ s an interesting development that quite literally seeks to build bridges between traditional maritime architecture and new materials.

The main obstruction to the development of the Valletta Waterfront as a major cruise destination and homeport was a physical one, the old ro-ro ferry ramp which projected from the existing quay…

A UK cross-Government fund to support new Severn tidal power technologies that are not developed technically enough for more detailed analysis at present, but which may offer the potential for less impact…

The GUPC consortium of which Belgian dredging and construction company Jan de Nul forms part is in ‘ pole position’ for a multi-billion dollar contract in Panama.

Topaz Energy and Marine Ltd, through its subsidiary Nico International, part of the newly established engineering division of the company, has successfully reached the first milestone in a project it is carrying…