Ports & Harbours

Flexifloat Systems BV of Rotterdam is building another C-7 Class modular self elevating platform which will join the companys rental fleet.

Due to the success of the UK Port of Tynes bulk cargo business, a £ 10m investment programme to extend cargo handling facilities has begun.

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…

The City of Hamburg and the newly founded Hamburg Port Authority published their latest Port Development Plan last year, which forecast a rise of containerised cargo volume to 13m TEU by 2010…

The UK civil engineering hydraulics consultancy HR Wallingford has been contracted by the Federal Highways Administration (FHWA) in Washington DC to apply prediction methods for wave forces developed at Wallingford to US…

The first phase of the River Clyde Boatyard at Rothesay Dock East in Clydebank opened for business recently.

When completed, Jamaicas 234km Highway 2000 (H2000) toll road will link towns on the southern coast to the capital Kingston, with further branches to coastal resorts in the North, including Montego Bay.…

Construction work started earlier this month on what will be the largest sea jetty in the Port of Rotterdam.

At the end of last month UK Transport Minister Derek Twigg announced that he has approved the proposals for a new container terminal at Felixstowe South. The proposals by Hutchison Ports involve…

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…