Ports & Harbours

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Preliminary details of a new canal boat marina at the junction of the Trent and Mersey and Shropshire Union canals with moorings for up to 150 boats have been released by PB…

1st September 2002

New Canal Boat Marina Planned in British Midlands

1st September 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Stena Line Ports Ltd will undertake a £ 12.3 million investment to build a new berth and associated infrastructure at the Port of Holyhead with the support of Objective 1 funding from…

1st August 2002

Euro-Funding Supports Port of Holyhead Development

1st August 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Marina development is on the up down under and one beneficiary is Bellingham Marine Australia. The company has recently completed two new projects, including the design and construction of a 70 slip…

1st August 2002

Marina Wizards on Building Spree in Oz

1st August 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Howard Marine Ltd of Plymouth UK recently solved problems for contractors at a tunnelling project in Dublin by supplying their jackup barge Zee Jack Skipper for an application completely devoid of water.

1st August 2002

Blarney Bonus as Dry Jackup Rescues Dublin Tunnelling

1st August 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Portsmouth Commercial Port has unveiled engineering plans that will transform Berth 3 at the continental ferry port by providing a new double deck linkspan with the flexibility to meet the loading requirements…

1st August 2002

Portsmouth Gets Flexible with Double Deck Linkspan

1st August 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Bosch Rexroth and Royal Haskoning have jointly developed and patented a dynamic, independent braking device designed to increase the safety and reliability of ship to shore lifting equipment used for roll-on/roll-off ferry…

1st August 2002

Ro-Ro Linkspans Go Fail-Safe with Rosafe

1st August 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Techniques usually used on the seabed are being applied by British Waterways Contractor Morrison Construction to repair a historic weir on the River Severn.

1st August 2002

Morrison Construction at Work on Weirs

1st August 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The future of the Alderney breakwater - which protects Bray Harbour on Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands - may soon become clearer, and restoration work could commence at the start of…

1st August 2002

Alderney Breakwater Project nears Resolution

1st August 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The revival of war torn Beirut continues apace, with particularly high levels of activity along the waterfront.

1st August 2002

Beirut Breakwater Boosted by Core Penetrometer

1st August 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Submerged breakwaters located just offshore are being proposed as one of a number of solutions for the high level of erosion that is taking place along many beaches in Spain.

1st July 2002

Imported Sand Needed to Protect Catalan Beaches?

1st July 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Bouygues Offshore and Bouygues Travaux Publics (a subsidiary of Bouygues Construction) in France have signed a turnkey contract with Caucedo Investments Inc to build a container terminal in the Dominican Republic.

1st July 2002

Bouygues Offshore Contracted to Build Container Terminal

1st July 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Danish marine civils contractor Per Aarsleff A/S is approaching completion of a major project at the Port of Klaipeda in Lithuania financed by the World Bank.

1st July 2002

Klaipeda Harbour Project Approaches Completion

1st July 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Southampton Container Terminals (SCT) has embarked on a five-month project to strengthen one of its four berths and further extend its capability to handle the worlds biggest container ships.

1st July 2002

HSS Using Innovative Techniques at SCT

1st July 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A newly developed model for predicting coastal erosion came under the spotlight at a recent conference at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London.

1st June 2002

Coastal Erosion Comes Under Scrutiny

1st June 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Two Dutch contractors - Mammoet and Van Oord ACZ - have revealed details of the jack-up barge they have built and started to use as a platform to serve the rapidly growing…

1st June 2002

Dutch JV Begins Installation Work on Offshore Wind Turbine Project

1st June 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

English Nature, the statutory body responsible for advising the UK government on the designation of marine Special Areas of Conservation (marine SACs) has confirmed that it does not intend to alter the…

1st June 2002

English Nature: No Change on Marine Conservation Areas

1st June 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Inland Waterways Association (IWA) and Droitwich Canals Trust (DCT) have announced the completion of the restoration of Hanbury Locks on the Droitwich Junction Canal. The re-opening ceremony took place on 31…

1st June 2002

Droitwich Junction locks restored

1st June 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

With its 40 year old pontoon prone to leaking and sinking, Londons Metropolitan Police were in need of an unsinkable replacement at the Wapping Boat Yard on the river Thames.

1st June 2002

Unsinkable Replacement Pontoon Brings Wapping Great Success

1st June 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Coega Industrial Development Zone and Ngqura Port in the Eastern Cape in South Africa - which covers an area of 12,000ha of land adjacent to a proposed deep-water port providing serviced industrial…

1st June 2002

SA Port Development Project Planned

1st June 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Portsmouth UK-based Plasti Ltd, which will be exhibiting at seawork2002, has won a prestigious Government SMART Development Award to develop, construct and install a beach groyne using patented composite piles in combination…

1st June 2002

seawork Exhibitor Wins Groyne Innovation Award

1st June 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

HR Wallingford, the UK-based marine engineering consultants, has begun work on a project which, it is anticipated, will be of considerable interest to marine contractors, builders, and local authorities who are involved…

1st June 2002

HR Wallingford Studies Coastal Defence Materials

1st June 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Third Harbour at the Dutch port of IJmuiden is nearing completion and is expecting to receive business by the end of this year. Despite problems such as weak surface layers that…

1st June 2002

IJmuidens Third Harbour Gets Ready to RoRo

1st June 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A trend has developed in the Americas to place container trans-shipment ports off the eastern seaboard of the goods-hungry USA. North-south trade along the Atlantic coast and east-west traffic with Europe utilise…

1st June 2002

Titan Surveys Possible Boxport Development

1st June 2002