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PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The first ever floating jetty project on England’s Lake Windermere has been completed by Falmouth based Marine Designs Ltd, part of the A&P Group.

29th September 2011

First floating jetty for Lake Windermere

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Hamburg based port and logistics group Buss has processed the first cargo ship at its newly acquired multi-purpose Orange Blue Terminal in the Dutch North Sea deepwater port of Eemshaven.

29th September 2011

Capacity expansion at strategic terminal

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The final construction countdown has begun at the JadeWeser Port (JWP) container terminal in Wilhelmshaven, now due on stream in a year, but rail link development could be delayed.

29th September 2011

Countdown rolls for Germany’s JWP terminal

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Royal Boskalis Westminster has won a contract for the construction of a new port terminal TX2 at Superporto do Açu in Brazil.

29th September 2011

Boskalis acquires € 200m port contract

29th September 2011

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Following the great success of the two previous Tugnology conferences, delegates are eagerly awaiting Tugnology ‘11, to be held in the Antwerp Hilton on 17 and 18 May.

29th September 2011

Antwerp hosts Tugnology ‘11 next month

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Royal Boskalis Westminster in The Netherlands has been selected by Chatham Rock Phosphate Limited (CRP) to undertake the detailed design of its offshore rock phosphate nodule project at Chatham Rise.

29th September 2011

Boskalis wins contract for seabed mining deal

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Visualisation work undertaken by ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) in association with Archipelago is being used to engage with local communities and visitors to the Dorset coast about coastal change.

29th September 2011

ABPMer helps visualise coastal changes

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A significant grant from the European Fisheries Fund (EFF) is being used towards the regeneration of Southwold Harbour on the coast of Suffolk in the UK.

29th September 2011

Grant funded harbour work gets underway

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Construction of Maasvlakte 2, the massive expansion of the Port of Rotterdam, is proceeding according to schedule, says the port.

29th September 2011

Maasvlakte project on schedule

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Dutch dredging and marine contractor Van Oord has been awarded a contract for the infield cabling and cable burial of the DanTysk offshore wind farm project 70km off Sylt, Germany.

29th September 2011

Van Oord wins infield cable project

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Van Oord in The Netherlands reports that the new Marine Facade passenger terminal on Vasilyevsky Island in St Petersburg, Russia is now up and running. The new passenger terminal will receive cruise…

29th September 2011

Dutch dredge for St Petersburg terminal

29th September 2011

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The UK Hydrographic Office, which is presently seeking buyers for its German SevenCs and ChartWorld subsidiaries with a combined turnover of €5m, is to open its first overseas office in Singapore.

29th September 2011

UKHO heads for Singapore

29th September 2011

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

International Transport Contractors (ITC), a member of the Tschudi Group, based in the Netherlands has sold two of their traditional ‘S-Wind’ class ocean going deepsea tugs.

29th September 2011

ITC sell the oceangoing tugs Suhaili and Simoon

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A major dredging operation is underway at the Port of Tyne UK to deepen the river to accommodate even bigger ships at the Port’s multi-functional berth, Riverside Quay.

29th September 2011

Dredging takes Port of Tyne supersize

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

In June the first 250m long deep sea quay wall section at the massive Maasvlakte 2 reclamation project in Port of Rotterdam in The Netherlands was dredged free of sand for the…

29th September 2011

First quay section at Maasvlakte 2 gets wet

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Broads Authority in the UK has been awarded some £800,000 from the European Regional Development Fund to develop innovative dredging solutions for the management of the waterways.

29th September 2011

Broads Authority wins funds for innovative dredging project

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A tidal power scheme in the Mersey Estuary could deliver enough electricity to meet the average needs of over 200,000 homes but the high construction costs mean that it is unlikely to…

29th September 2011

Mersey tidal power project unlikely to be funded

29th September 2011

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The London based International Marine Contractors Association, which has 750 members in nearly 60 countries, has published a dedicated industry wide checklist for use by survey, ROV and pipeline installation contractors and…

29th September 2011

New IMCA publications

29th September 2011

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Also at Seawork 2011, Coastline Surveys reported that it has been retained locally by Land & Water Services of Guildford to provide survey support for dredging work presently being carried out at…

29th September 2011

Dredging and wind farm work for Coastline Surveys

29th September 2011

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Gloucester Harbour in the UK, which encounters one of the world’s highest tidal ranges, is among the first customers for Ohmex’s latest low power modular bluetooth tide gauge, TideM8.

29th September 2011

New Ohmex tide gauge

29th September 2011