Ports & Harbours

A triple berth ro-ro linkspan designed, built and installed by MacGregor is central to a new river terminal development which opened last month at the ABP Port of Immingham in the UK.

This may be the first year that Marine Designs Ltd have exhibited at Seawork but the company has been designing, fabricating and installing heavy duty linkspans since 1994.

The Port of Salalah and Mooring Systems Limiteds licence holder Cavotec Group Holdings (CGH) have concluded a deal for four new MoorMaster 600 (MM600) automated mooring units. The equipment is due to…

Dublin based renewable energy company Airtricity has announced plans to create a £ 22bn pan-European subsea energy grid called Supergrid, which will link a series of offshore wind farms from the Mediterranean…

Scotland based marine construction and support services company and returning Seawork exhibitor GSS has been forging ahead with expansion plans over the last six months.

Marine civil engineering contractors Seaboard Limited has carried out a much needed facelift for a tired concrete waterfront in Chichester Harbour UK.

Bureau Veritas is playing a leading role in a joint industry project to investigate shallow water wave conditions in order to provide reliable wave information leading to optimal offshore LNG facility designs.

Newly renamed Sheffield engineering company DavyMarkham has been awarded an £ 800,000 contract to restore Hulls Wellington Street Swing Bridge to full working order. The appointment was announced by Citybuild, Hulls urban…

Dawson WAM, the river and marine engineers, have completed the construction of a new mussel harbour and berth development at Warrenpoint in Northern Ireland at a cost of £ 2.6m for the…

A river diversion project in Austria which has released an additional six hectares of land on which to build a new hospital was made possible by a self-sealing geosynthetic clay liner.

The Boulogne Chamber of Commerce and Industry has announced a 20m investment in a new ro-ro berth which is due to go into service in 2007.

Some 40 years after an abnormal high tide flooded the city and made 5,000 people homeless, the massive marine construction project to protect Venice in Italy is now underway. The Modello Sperimentale…

Another milestone in the transformation of the Woolston Riverside site in Southampton in the UK was reached last month with the announcement that the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) has chosen…

The future of Chichester Harbour, the largest purely recreational harbour in the UK in terms of its size, number of vessels and range of boating activity could be in doubt if a…

A specially designed pontoon recently completed for a small Argyll community will prove a major attraction for leisure users and help boost the local economy. The 50m long pontoon was installed on…

The potential for generating electricity by tidal and wave power on the Mersey Estuary is to be considered in a major study initiated by Peel Holdings Group and the Northwest Regional Development…