Ports & Harbours

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…

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…

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…

A thriving canal quarter in Glasgow could soon become a reality following the announcement at the World Canals Conference that a £ 5.6m regeneration project, restoring the canal link between two of…

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…

Gweek, Cornwall-based Seacore has completed a challenging pile remediation project on behalf of BP Norway for a new four-legged water injection jacket standing in 76m of water in the Valhall Field in…

Traditionally adversarial relationships between environmentalists and port developers have been reversed by a pioneering agreement between Associated British Ports and leading UK conservation organisations which will help to safeguard the future of…

New UK ferry terminals built by Mowlem Marine have opened recently at Holyhead and Scrabster Harbour , Caithness, Scotland.

The phenomenal sold-out success of Jumeirah Palm Island off the coast of Dubai has led to a second major land reclamation project for the Netherlands Van Oord ACZ .The dredging and marine…

An environmental clean-up operation in the old heavily industrialised Asturias region of Spain is turning a contaminated sedimentation basin of a river mouth into an inviting urban green space for the coastal…