Ports & Harbours

The Swedish Port of Goteborgs board has approved the Ports largest ever investment package, authorising some $45m for upgrading facilities at the Skandia Container Terminal to accommodate the largest boxships envisioned for…

Cornwall based Seacore Ltd has demonstrated the versatility of one of its Skate II series jack up platforms during the replacement and extension of a seawall outfall pipeline down steep cliffs and…

Edmund Nuttall Limited is approaching the mid-point of a £ 25.7m, 22 month coast protection project awarded to it by client Scarborough Borough Council (with DEFRA providing the major part of the…

A new deep water jetty for the ro-ro ferries - the Hjaltland and Hrossey - has achieved minimum berthing status at Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands, and is on course for completion…

Preliminary details of a new 200 berth marina intended to be built as part of a larger development at Penzance Harbour have been unveiled by the Penwith District Council in Cornwall, along…

Scottish marine plant operator Gareloch Support Services (Plant) Ltd has taken delivery of a new MRV 20 multi-role vessel built by Halmatic at their Portchester yard. The Laura M becomes Garelochs flagship…

Mid-Lothian, Scotland based Environmental Engineering has changed the name for the marine section of their business to MarineCo UK Ltd. The move follows feedback from participation in their first ever exhibition this…

The Port of Rosyth already had much of the required infrastructure in place when it received the go-ahead early this year to become Scotlands first ferry link to mainland Europe via a…

The Environment Agency (EA) in the UK, which is planning a major regeneration effort at Lydney Docks near Gloucester, has increased the size of the marina it is planning to build to…

The Milford Haven Port Authority in the UK has demonstrated its commitment to conservation by using fender pilings made of recycled plastic in place of rain forest hardwood. During a £ 130,000…

The Welsh Assembly has approved an £ 8m project to develop a new marina at Beaumaris on the island of Anglesey at the eastern end of the Menai Strait, some five years…

Terramare, the Finnish marine construction firm, reports that it is actively engaged in the construction of a harbour for SCA Graphic Sundswall AB, a Swedish pulp and paper mill company located in…

The German Baltic Port of Kiel has inaugurated an expanded Ostuferhafen complex after two and a half years of construction which has finally obliterated a WWII submarine bunker that threatened to strangle…

Dean & Dyball Construction in the UK has completed construction of a new marina at Burry Port Harbour in South Wales.