Ports & Harbours

MacGregor has strengthened its relationship with Danish ferry operator DFDS by securing a new order for a large linkspan installation at Immingham in the UK, making the inner harbour accessible at all…

ABPmer , Associated British Ports marine environment research subsidiary, has helped secure planning permission for the creation of 108 hectares of new coastal habitat on Wallasea Island on Crouch Estuary in Essex.…

Corrosion control specialists iicorr in Aberdeen says it has secured contracts worth around £ 400,000 to carry out corrosion control work for a number of Scottish ports including those at Orkney, Wick,…

Agreement has been reached by all interested parties that short term action should be taken to repair a 90m long eroded section of sand dunes at the neck of East Head, a…

Xbloc armoured units of the type developed by Delta Marine Consultants (DMC) in the Netherlands have been selected for a number of new projects in different locations around the world, according to…

Excavation, piling and the laying of foundations are in full swing at the eastern Skandia Harbour container yard in the Swedish Port of Goteborg . The quay and the surfaces within the…

The Anglo Norwegian joint venture of Seacore Ltd and Eidesvik Subsea AS has been awarded an open tender contract by the joint Moroccan and Spanish authorities to perform a marine site investigation…

The Montrose New Bridge , via which the A92 crossed the river South Esk on the East Coast of Scotland until last October, was in fact 73 years old and dying from…

UK Government Ministers have backed a pilot project which could lead to a new, plan-led approach to protecting and managing Britains seas in a more sustainable way.

Land and marine geotechnical investigations for a proposed LNG terminal, including an unloading jetty and pipeline at Horseshoe Point on the Isle of Grain in Kent UK, has been completed by Fugro…

At the end of January, the UK Secretary of State for Transport, Alistair Darling, set out his view on the proposal to support the Great Yarmouth Outer Harbour (EastPort) scheme with public…

Flexcrete , which specialises in repair to marine and other structures, has launched a new product, Cemprotec Clutch Filler , to complement its successful Cemprotec E942 system.

HR Wallingford in the UK has unveiled details of a major investment it has made in a new modelling hall that covers an area more than 11,000m 2.Responding to record demand for…

The photograph which appeared on page 115 of the November 2004 MJ toaccompany David Foxwells article about new ro-ro linkspan standards has an interesting story of its own.