Ports & Harbours

Cornwall UK based Seacore has been awarded a £ 2.5m contract by the Natural Environmental Research Council on behalf of the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling . The company will perform…

Kent County Council in the UK are proposing to build a road bridge across the mudflats of Milton Creek, a tidal waterway to the north of Sittingbourne that connects the town to…

Established UK tugs, dredgers, hopper barges and crane barges operator GPS Marine Contractors Ltd , based at Chatham Dock in Kent, is developing the business further and entering the marine contracting and…

Medway Council and the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) have awarded a civil engineering joint venture between Edmund Nuttall and Van Oord the main ? 44m contract to carry out infrastructure…

The installation of new inner lock gates for the Bristol Port Company in the UK, following the earlier installation of similar outer lock gates, has given the port enhanced flexibility with equipment…

EastPort Great Yarmouth , the £ 43.5m project to construct a new outer harbour to provide the shortest North Sea crossing from the UK to the Netherlands, has been granted a Harbour…

Flexcrete , the British company that specialises in repairing and protecting concrete structures, has completed an important project in Doha in the Middle East. The project saw the company coat a sea…

July saw the re-opening of the historic docks at Lydney, near Gloucester in the UK after a two year project to restore and enhance the historic landmark on behalf of the Environment…

Short term work to rebuild The Hinge at East Head in the UK has been completed.

The 24th Bi-annual Conference of the International Association of Ports and Harbours (IAPH), which took place in Shanghai 21-27 May, marking the 50th anniversary of the organisation, concluded with a stark warning…

A new report from the Construction Industry Research Association (CIRIA) is offering ports and harbours new insights into, and new tools to fight, Accelerated Low Water Corrosion (ALWC).

Edinburgh based Ocean Power Delivery (OPD) signed an order last month with a Portuguese consortium led by Enersis to build the initial phase of the worlds first commercial wave farm to generate…

An updated and revised version of a European standard for cathodic protection of harbour structures, EN 13174, which will be of direct use for port and harbour engineers planning protection against ALWC…