Ports & Harbours

Cornwall UK based marine contractors Seacore has sold a Seawalker self contained eight leg walking jack-up platform to the Namibian mining company Namdeb foruse in mining diamonds in the shallow raging surf…

Hutchison Ports (UK) Ltd (HPUK) , on behalf of its subsidiary Port of Felixstowe, formally applied last month to Suffolk Coastal District Council for planning permission to reconfigure the southern part of…

The cutter suction dredger is the beast of the industry, called upon when the going gets extremely tough and it is necessary to cut through hard compacted soils or solid rock in…

An innovative solution has been adopted to speed up the construction of new jetties at the Spanish port of Cartagena, in the province of Murcia in the south of Spain.

The 675m long St Georges Bridge at Doncaster crosses the South Yorkshire Navigation Canal, River Don and the East Coast Main Line.

Two former shipyards in the UK, one in the northeast and one on the south coast, could become sites for new marinas.

A 17-strong consortium of experts at well known universities research organisations is now approximately 12 months into a major EU-funded modelling programme to assess the effects of offshore dredging on coastlines Demand…

Fareham UK based Walcon Marine , specialists in the design, manufacture and installation of marinas, has purchased a new 24m piling barge which is currently under construction at the Aveco Shipyard on…

Constructing two delicate landfalls in Sicily and Libya, the Belgian DEME Group is creating the tailpiece for linking North African gas resources to the European mainland. The work is being executed by…

Conjet hydrodemolition equipment is playing a key role in removing concrete and assisting with the replacement of the Panama Canals special tow track rail system. The track is used by powerful electric…

The City of Aberdeen has signalled its determination to remain Europes Energy Capital after the offshore oil and gas industry has peaked by announcing a detailed feasibility study into the building of…

Three of what were the dredging industrys Big Six companies only recently, will now operate as one, following the sale of a majority stake in Ballast Ham Dredging to its Dutch rival,…

As part of its Coastal Zone Monitoring Programme, the Marine Works Unit of the Dubai Municipality has set up a website www.dubaicoast.org which enables viewers to watch near real-time video of wave…

Major British utility companies have moved to join the march towards offshore renewable energy with the Centrica Group, which owns British Gas, announcing plans to build a £ 100m wind farm in…