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Specialist contractor Land & Water Group has been appointed by British Waterways to play a major role in an £ 1.6 million initiative to revive commercial traffic on West Londons canals.

1st June 2005

Land & Water to Unlock Waterways Freight Potential

1st June 2005

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

UK marine engineers Houlder Limited have completed a residential pontoon contract at Wandsworth on Londons River Thames. Houlder have installed the mooring facility for river residents, providing quick access to central London.

1st June 2005

Pontoon Project transforms Thames Terminal

1st June 2005

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Fugro Engineering Services (FES) and Alluvial Mining Ltd have been employed by Offshore Windpower Ltd to determine ground conditions at the Lynn and Inner Dowsing wind farm site off the Lincolnshire UK…

1st June 2005

Jack-ups Conduct Wind Farm Investigations

1st June 2005

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

As highlighted on page 97, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has issued a statement in which it says it is concerned about the inadequacy of infrastructure serving many ports worldwide, a…

1st June 2005

ICC Calls for Investment in Ports

1st June 2005

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Hampshire UK based pontoon innovator Intermarine is celebrating the completion of over £ 1.5 million of bespoke projects in the last 12 months at sites ranging from Scotland to Cornwall, with each…

1st June 2005

Big Business in Bespoke Pontoons

1st June 2005

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Associated British Ports (ABP) will invest £ 5 million in a major redevelopment of port operations at Teignmouth in Devon on the back of long term contracts with existing and new customers.

1st June 2005

£5 Million Redevelopment for Port of Teignmouth

1st June 2005

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Gulf Finance House BSC (GFH), one of the leading Islamic investment banks in the Middle East, and Bahrain-based Dala Development Properties Management Co WLL (Dala Development), have announced that they have signed…

1st June 2005

New Reclamation Project Proposed in Bahrain

1st June 2005

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Britains Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott announced £ 17 million of funding last month for the construction of a 250m extension to Liverpools Pier Head which will be used as a new…

1st June 2005

Port Construction Funding for Merseyside

1st June 2005

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Work on excavating a trench to the landfall for the Langeled gas trunkline is well under way on the seabed off Easington on the east coast of the UK, with Jan de…

1st June 2005

Jan de Nul Starts Trenching Work for Langeled Project

1st June 2005

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The 24th Bi-annual Conference of the International Association of Ports and Harbours (IAPH), which took place in Shanghai 21-27 May, marking the 50th anniversary of the organisation, concluded with a stark warning…

1st June 2005

European Ports Could Become Bottlenecks of World Trade

1st June 2005

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Extending a successful long term partnership, Sovereign Harbour has commissioned Walcon Marine to install pontoon equipment for a further 80 berths in its North Harbour at Eastbourne.

1st June 2005

Berthing Gains as Sovereign Harbour Grows

1st June 2005

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Robert Gordon University Sea Snail , designed as a support system for tidal current energy devices, was towed out of Stromness Harbour last month and successfully installed in Burra Sound, Orkney.

1st June 2005

Tidal Current Breakthrough in Orkney with Sea Snail

1st June 2005

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Edinburgh based Ocean Power Delivery (OPD) signed an order last month with a Portuguese consortium led by Enersis to build the initial phase of the worlds first commercial wave farm to generate…

1st June 2005

Green Light for the Worlds First Commercial Wave Farm

1st June 2005

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Municipality of Gavle in Sweden is investing 6.5m in the Port of Gavle to create a new quay and for dredging in order to allow calls by larger container ships. Together…

1st June 2005

Swedish Ports Building to Win

1st June 2005

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Plans have been approved by Aberdeenshire Council and Scottish Enterprise Grampian for a multi-million Pound marina at Banff on the Scottish coast.

1st June 2005

Funding Secured

1st June 2005

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A new report from the Construction Industry Research Association (CIRIA) is offering ports and harbours new insights into, and new tools to fight, Accelerated Low Water Corrosion (ALWC).

1st June 2005

CIRIA Project Provides New Solutions for ALWC

1st June 2005

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

An updated and revised version of a European standard for cathodic protection of harbour structures, EN 13174, which will be of direct use for port and harbour engineers planning protection against ALWC…

1st June 2005

Revised Standard for CP Systems Due Next Year

1st June 2005

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

Trinity House , the Northern Lighthouse Board and the Commissioners of Irish Lights will trial the long range, low frequency electronic position fixing system Loran-C at a BT Radio site near Rugby…

1st June 2005

Loran-C Transmitter Trial Commences This Month

1st June 2005

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

Hampshire UK based oceanographic instrument supplier RS Aqua Ltd will use the occasion of Seawork 2005 to promote a range of new initiatives from Dutch wave buoy manufacturer Datawell BV .

1st June 2005

Toys for the Buoys at Seawork 2005

1st June 2005

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

Tideland Signal , together with its distributors FPM Henderson and Lumen Seamarks , will be showing highlights of its aids to navigation range, including the latest Automatic Identification System and diode based…

1st June 2005

Tideland In Buoyant Form at Seawork

1st June 2005