Ports & Harbours

A number of milestones have passed in recent months as Rotterdam’s major port development Maasvlakte 2 moves ever closer to opening for business and welcoming its first customers in 2014.

Important dredging works began at Gloucester Docks in the UK in November, with a new technique being used for the first time to ensure the water is deep enough for large boats.

The Broads Authority in the UK is restoring a lost reed bed and eroded strip of land at Salhouse Broad using funding and the latest innovative technology from Europe.

Scotland’s Aberdeen Harbour has welcomed the largest ever vessel to the port after the completion of a £5.2 million programme to improve access and deepen the navigation channel.

A nine year €2.3 billion project in the Netherlands aims to reduce the risk of major flood damage from changing environmental conditions, including rivers having to process increasing levels of rainfall, snow…