Ports & Harbours

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.…

UK Transport Minister Derek Twigg has indicated that he is minded to approve proposals for a container port at Bathside Bay, Harwich, Essex. The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has also…

Three consortia of dredging and construction companies have qualified for the construction of Maasvlakte 2 project at the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

Drogheda Port Company announced on 9 December that it is commencing an open competitive process for a joint venture partner for the development of its Bremore Deepwater Port in the Greater Dublin…

Europes biggest seaport, Rotterdam, has revealed plans for a second new container terminal with facilities for feeders and inland waterway vessels.

Vehicle handling and logistics firm E H Harms, part of Bremens BLG Logistics, has opened a car handling terminal in Europes biggest inland port, Duisburg, to boost the role of the Rhine…

Following the acquisition of four vessels from Dean & Dyball Construction earlier this year, Poole UK based Jenkins Marine have further expanded their fleet to include the two 300m 3split hopper barges…

Workboat operator Rederij Waterweg BV has joined forces with another Dutch workboat company, Van Stee Survey & Supply, after the latter was taken over by what is now the parent company of…

The Port Authority of Jamaica has awarded Mott MacDonald, engineering and management consultant, a contract to help expand cruise terminal facilities at Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Rotterdam based Flexifloat Systems BV is building another C-7 Class Modular Self-elevating Platform after their previous newbuild was purchased out of the Combifloat fleet earlier this year by Huta Marine Works of…

The University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Intellectual Property Ltd (UMIP), in partnership with Mowlem plc and Royal Haskoning , are developing an innovative and patented new wave energy device…

The London based International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has prepared a position paper on offshore renewable energy to assist and inform its 270 members in 35 countries on the marine renewable energy…

Intermarine Ltd has just completed a race against time to design, supply and install a floating breakwater and moorings in the Holy Loch on the west coast of Scotland. The breakwater for…

The UKs first offshore substation has been successfully installed at the Barrow Offshore Wind Farm in the Irish Sea. The substation transforms the power generated by the windfarm before it can be…