Ports & Harbours

Two Dutch contractors - Mammoet and Van Oord ACZ - have revealed details of the jack-up barge they have built and started to use as a platform to serve the rapidly growing…

With its 40 year old pontoon prone to leaking and sinking, Londons Metropolitan Police were in need of an unsinkable replacement at the Wapping Boat Yard on the river Thames.

Coega Industrial Development Zone and Ngqura Port in the Eastern Cape in South Africa - which covers an area of 12,000ha of land adjacent to a proposed deep-water port providing serviced industrial…

The Third Harbour at the Dutch port of IJmuiden is nearing completion and is expecting to receive business by the end of this year. Despite problems such as weak surface layers that…

Working in collaboration with a consortium of companies, Hollands Van den Noort Innovations has designed a self-closing flood barrier, the Self-Closing Waterdam (SCW).

Ballast Ham Dredging says it will be shipping the largest vertical drainage rig in the world to a project in Singapore later this year. The jumbo rig can sink vertical drains to…

Specialist marine civil engineering and geotechnical drilling contractors Seacore has completed the design and installation of a navigation transit day mark on the Tins Walbert rock outcrop on the northwestern extremity of…

One of Britains most magnificent examples of Victorian engineering, the Anderton Boat Lift in Cheshire has been formally reopened following restoration which features a modern electrohydraulic system designed and installed by Bosch…

In August of last year construction work began on the latest Associated British Ports (ABP) development at Humber International Terminal Phase II, more simply known as HIT 2.

Mowlem Marine is constructing a new berth for Scrabster Harbour Trust, Thurso Bay, for ferries to Stromness in the Orkney Islands. Consulting engineers are the Babtie Group.

Details of the largest ever programme of waterway restoration and construction undertaken in the UK - valued at more than over £ 500m, has been unveiled by British Waterways.

At the beginning of April, British Waterways (BW) and Peel Developments announced plans for a major waterfront regeneration project in Gloucester in the UK. The project has the backing of the South…

The Port of Harwich in the UK has confirmed that the proposed £ 300m development of new facilities at Bathside Bay will be delayed by an as yet unknown period after the…