Ports & Harbours

A new pontoon and brow in which Opus International Consultants provided the engineering design, has been successfully installed off Town Pier at Gravesend in Kent UK.

Hamburg, Germany’s largest port, handled 132.2m tonnes of cargo in 2011, an increase of 9.1% compared with 2010, and is expected to gain additional benefits from a forthcoming dredging campaign in the…

The Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment in The Netherlands has announced that it is expanding the Maasgeul in order to reduce waiting times for ships entering the Port of Rotterdam.

The first part of the new beach along the Maasvlakte 2 container terminal in The Netherlands will be ready for use in May 2012. The rest of the beach will be accessible…

At the end of February, Leo Varadkar, TD, Irelands’s Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, launched Dublin Port Company’s Masterplan 2012 to 2040.