Ports & Harbours

Registration is now open for the 15th annual Armourstone Users Group meeting, which takes place on 12 and 13 March in Norfolk UK.

Malta' s  House of Representatives has unanimously approved a motion to allow an extension of Malta Freeport through land reclamation. The motion also makes possible an extension of the lease of the…

Royal Boskalis Westminster has confirmed that  it has acquired a major contract for deepening the entrance channel to the Port of Melbourne in Australia. The project will be executed in an alliance…

TEAM, which designs and manufactures of boarding bridges for cruise and ferry terminals, has signed a contract with Malaga Cruceros S.A. to deliver a boarding bridge this summer for the cruise terminal…

Poole UK based Jenkins Marine is currently working towards helping Britain achieving it’ s Olympic dream. Work is underway in Portland, Dorset, in preparation for the sailing events associated with the Games.

Dutch Dredging and marine contractor Van Oord has completed the prestigious land reclamation project The World in the emirate of Dubai. The World is a group of 300 artificial islands 4 km…

The German Baltic seaport of Stralsund has completed a two year, € 14 expansion which has created three new berths and a new handling area in the Suedhafen district.

Work proper has begun on what is being described as one of Europe’ s biggest current port engineering projects, the € 233m rebuilding and expansion of Bremerhaven’ s Kaiserschleuse sea lock to…

Sub Marine Services Ltd (SMS) is providing the pontoon barge, crawler crane, support vessels and diving teams for a project underway to replace the inner and outer lock harbour gates at Sutton…

Work on a new cruise ship berth is underway in the port of Rostock as the German Baltic facility rushes to keep up with rising cruise business which this year has been…

The jack up barge ' Vagant' was towed into Harwich Haven last month to shelter from the North Sea storms and tidal surge which lashed the east coast of England and Continental…

Much has changed in the marine civil engineering industry since  Maritime Journal was first published, but perhaps the most obvious trend or development is the scale of many projects.

A major obstacle to the development of PD Portsproposed Northern Gateway Container Terminal (NGCT) at Teesport UK was removedlast month when agreement was reached with Hutchison Ports (UK) regarding railfreight network capacity. 

The iconic Cunard liner ' Queen Elizabeth 2' berthed at the Port of Tyne on the only scheduled UK stopover of its 40th Anniversary voyage last month, thanks to a £ 4…

The UKs River Cart has beenused for commercial traffic for the first time in at least 20 years by SteelEngineering, a tenant at the Westway Industrial and Distribution Park inRenfrew.