Ports & Harbours

Specialist UK marine contractor Seacore has successfully used a combination of reverse circulation drilling and vibratory pile driving techniques, in conjunction with novel and versatile pile handling equipment, to install, several weeks…

Halcrow has been commissioned by the UKs Environment Agency to undertake a strategic review of the approach to the flood defence system within the Stour and Orwell Estuary complex on the Essex…

Associated British Ports (ABP) has announced its largest ever investment in a terminal development, £ 44. m for a new coal facility at its Port of Immingham which will serve the UKs…

British contractor Costain has provided details of the work it is carrying out at West Bay in Dorset in the UK reconstructing the harbour in order to make it viable for use…

Revised plans for a £ 35 million Yorkshire Marina at Bridlington on the northeast coast of the UK were unveiled in July.

Plans for a 350m investment to transform the River Shannon Estuary into one of Europes largest cargo hubs have been announced by state-owned Shannon Foynes Port Company (SFPC).

The developers of a new super yacht marina which is under construction at Cartagena in Spain have started their marketing campaign to sell moorings at the facility, and say construction should be…

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution s new boathouse and slipway at Tenby in South Wales will be supported on a forest of tubular steel monopiles specialist marine civil engineering contractors Seacore has…

Associated British Ports (ABP) Port of Ipswich has taken a step closer to expanding its ro-ro facilities after accepting a £ 3.5m tender from Edmund Nuttall Ltd to construct a second ro-ro…

The South West of England Regional Development Agency (RDA) has appointed a project manager to take forward proposals to develop the Wave Hub , a proposal to kick start the regions sea…

Specialist facility expansion in Germanys two biggest seaports up to late 2005 is costing a total ¢ 60m, according to plans now revealed in Hamburg and the Weser ports complex of Bremen/…

Corrosion is probably the single most serious cause of deterioration of reinforced concrete structures and is particularly prevalent in buildings and structures subjected to salts from the sea.

Consulting engineers Halcrow is in the final stages of a project on the Roach and Crouch estuaries in Essex.

The British company that earlier this year purchased the Eirfloat modular pontoon system manufactured and previously based in Ireland have got off to a flying start with a string of important orders.…

The UK Government and the Scottish Executive are planning to deliver a one stop shop approach for offshore renewable energy consents in waters around Scotland.

Pier 400 is an all new facility built at the Port of Los Angeles in California USA. New berths and container areas are set to open, expanding on a first phase which…

The proposed second crossing for Poole Harbour will span a 19m stretch of the Backwater Channel between Poole and Hamworthy. Designed to become a memorable landmark, the new bridge will feature two…

The Mittellandkanal is one of the most important navigable waterways in Germany, providing an east-west route for inland waterborne transportation. Ships draughts continue to increase and are currently anything up to 2.50…