Ports & Harbours

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.

When a Jersey based marine engineering companyrequired unusual provision for their refuelling needs, Barnsley UK basedCameron Forecourt was able to provide a successful bespoke solution.

Qingdao Municipal Government in China isinvesting some $183m this year to upgrade Qingdao Port, which will have amassive container handling capacity of 12m TEU when 23 new deep water berthsare built as…

Wandsworth Riverside Quarter, next to Wandsworth Park onLondons River Thames, is making an additional £ 100,000 investment in mooringsat the new pier which allowed the Putney to Blackfriars river taxi service tostart…

Glasgow-based marine consultants Partrac Ltd are seeing acontinued and rising interest in sediment stability instruments, the CohesiveStrength Meter (CSM).

Irelands national ports are facing a capacity crisis. The growth in exports, the trend to outsourcing part of the production process and the boom in imports of construction materials has wiped out…

The first project in Europe to make use of the Xbloc interlocking armoured sea defence unit has recently been completed.