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HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Coral, never before seen in colour and fish never seen alive or in their natural habitat have been filmed by a Saab Seaeye Falcon DR ROV in an expedition to discover new…

1st June 2009

ROVing the depths

1st June 2009

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Two British engineers have developed a breakthrough design that could within five years begin to generate substantial amounts of cheap electricity from deepwater tidal flows. TidalStream Ltd reported last month that their…

1st June 2009

TidalStreams turbine validated in deep water tests

1st June 2009

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Orecon, the Cornish wave energy device developer, has signed an agreement with Portuguese developer Eneólica. The two companies are establishing a joint venture company to build and deploy Orecon’ s first full…

1st June 2009

Another British wave device welcomed in Portugal

1st June 2009

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

The C-Energy consortium installed a support structure for the first Dutch tidal energy demonstration project last week. The project is located at the Marine Terminal of the Total Refinery within the municipality…

1st June 2009

Dutch tide turns in the Westerschelde

1st June 2009

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

A new design catamaran for the offshore wind market is due to be launched this month. The Ocean Cat, a 16m aluminium work catamaran designed by Marine Design International Ltd., is under…

1st June 2009

First Ocean Cat launched this month.

1st June 2009

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Trident Energy is a marine renewables energy company that has developed a unique and low cost system for converting sea wave energy directly into electricity.

1st June 2009

A simpler form of wave power

1st June 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Central to the revamping of Bologne as a major European hub port with fast Ro-Ro and passenger service turnaround is the new twin deck linkspan which will start to operate at the…

1st June 2009

Link up with linkspan experts at Seawork

1st June 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A new € 11m harbour with eight permanent berths for tugs and two emergency berths has been completed in Bremerhaven as a spin-off to the port’ s € 233m Kaiserschleuse development.

1st June 2009

New harbour for Bremerhaven tugs

1st June 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Wartime necessity occasionally inspires moments of genius and one of the great marine civil engineering innovations of World War 2 was the Mulberry Harbour, the landing bridges critical to success of the…

1st June 2009

British D-Day engineer honoured in France

1st June 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A major new European port project is just entering into construction, shrugging off the global credit crisis and aiming at the upswing.

1st June 2009

Malmo moves on port expansion

1st June 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A start has been made on planning one of the world’ s largest fixed links with the appointment of two European engineering consultancy groups to plan both a bridge and a tunnel…

1st June 2009

Fehmarn engineering plans go ahead

1st June 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Work is now well underway on a project that aims to create hundreds of new jobs on Portland UK after the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

1st June 2009

BAM Nuttall at work on Olympic site

1st June 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Accelerated Low Water Corrosion (ALWC), the devastating effect of the tiny charge from seawater interacting with pilings, is now well known. However it is also something that many ports would rather  keep…

1st June 2009

Take a stand against ALWC at Seawork

1st June 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

As senior project manager Peter Mckenzie-Midlane told MJ , CTC Marine Projects is operating in some ‘ challenging’ conditions on the Robin Rigg Offshore Wind Farm in the Solway Firth of Cumbria…

1st June 2009

Conditions challenge wind farm cable layers

1st June 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

There is something new afoot – or rather, underfoot. It comes in the shape of a composite timber decking product that, the manufacturer claims, is actually better than traditional wood.

1st June 2009

Longlife solution with new composite decking

1st June 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Detailed marine mapping is being used to understand factors affecting the quality of water off the Yorkshire coast.

1st June 2009

Digitised data assists coastal water quality studies

1st June 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Port of Rotterdam Authority has announced that the Faunabescherming (the Dutch society for the protection of wildlife) has withdrawn its objection to the construction permit for Maasvlakte 2, and that the…

1st June 2009

Maasvlakte 2 objection withdrawn by Faunabescherming

1st June 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

BMT Baxter Eadie Ltd has completed an in depth field study for a new port in the Gulf of Aqaba on the southern tip of Jordan. The company, part of the BMT…

1st June 2009

In depth study for new port in Gulf of Aqaba

1st June 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Mersey Ports is reported to have completed a feasibility study into plans for a terminal to accommodate the world' s biggest post-Panamax ships. Surveys and engineering studies have been carried out as…

1st June 2009

Mersey Ports planning new terminal

1st June 2009

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Van Oord in The Netherlands has won a contract to design and construct revetments along the channels of the eastern and western arms of the river Scheldt in the Dutch province of…

1st June 2009

Van Oord wins contract to construct revetments in Zeeland

1st June 2009