Ports & Harbours

Repairs were required after a small bulk carrier lost steerage and collided with one of the berthing dolphins at the Immingham Oil Terminal , one of the UKs major oil importing terminals.

The seventh annual seawork exhibition and conference takes place in the ABP Port of Southampton from 22-24 June 2004. Recognised as the key forum for the commercial maritime industry, seawork2004 promises to…

The installation and staged commissioning of the UKs newest wind farm off the coast of Wales has established the Port of Mostyn as a specialist base of operations for a significant new…

Pendennis Shipyard at Falmouth in the southwest of the UK says development work is progressing well on the conversion of the No 1 Dock at the yard into a new, hi-tech painting…

Involvement in the creation of the worlds largest man made islands has led marine services provider Inchscape Shipping Services (ISS) to enhance its fleet of construction support vessels in the Middle East.

Work on a new marina on the Clyde estuary in Scotland could get underway in 18 months time.

Sileby Marina in Leicestershire UK has chosen the new fibreglass non slip decking product, DeckGrip from FibreGrid Limited , as a replacement to their old timber decking boards.

Tenders for the construction of a new harbour and ro-ro terminal at Great Yarmouth on the east coast of the UK could be issued by the end of the second quarter of…

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.