Ports & Harbours

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…

The Municipality of Gavle in Sweden is investing 6.5m in the Port of Gavle to create a new quay and for dredging in order to allow calls by larger container ships. Together…

The UK Governments Environment Agency as well as its statutory ecology adviser English Nature are both formally objecting to an application for a new waste management license from Able UK for its…

Marine Projects International Limited won the £ 20 million contract last month for the offshore construction phase of the Barrow Offshore Windfarm .The contract for Vestas Kellogg Brown & Root (VKBR) was…

Specialist contractor Land & Water Group has been appointed by British Waterways to play a major role in an £ 1.6 million initiative to revive commercial traffic on West Londons canals.

Fugro Engineering Services (FES) and Alluvial Mining Ltd have been employed by Offshore Windpower Ltd to determine ground conditions at the Lynn and Inner Dowsing wind farm site off the Lincolnshire UK…

MacGregor has strengthened its relationship with Danish ferry operator DFDS by securing a new order for a large linkspan installation at Immingham in the UK, making the inner harbour accessible at all…

ABPmer , Associated British Ports marine environment research subsidiary, has helped secure planning permission for the creation of 108 hectares of new coastal habitat on Wallasea Island on Crouch Estuary in Essex.…

Corrosion control specialists iicorr in Aberdeen says it has secured contracts worth around £ 400,000 to carry out corrosion control work for a number of Scottish ports including those at Orkney, Wick,…

Development plans for Folkestone Harbour UK include the introduction of two further berths to accommodate larger vessels of up to 7m draft and a harbour dredging programme as well as the ongoing…

Bristol UK based Marine Current Turbines has received £ 3.85m from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to help fund their SeaGen tidal energy project. The grant to Sea Generation Ltd…

The Duke of York has officially opened Costain s West Bay project in Dorset, which will provide flood protection and vastly improved harbour facilities for the small Dorset town.

Agreement has been reached by all interested parties that short term action should be taken to repair a 90m long eroded section of sand dunes at the neck of East Head, a…

Xbloc armoured units of the type developed by Delta Marine Consultants (DMC) in the Netherlands have been selected for a number of new projects in different locations around the world, according to…