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of Rotterdam Authority has announced that the Faunabescherming (the Dutch society for the protection of wildlife) has withdrawn its objection to the construction permit for Maasvlakte 2, and that the…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

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DEME in Belgium says that, amongst several new assignments in the Middle East, an important contract has been awarded to Dredging International, a DEME Group company, for site preparation dredging and reclamation…

1st June 2009

DEME provides details of Middle East contract

1st June 2009

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

DHI in Denmark has provided details of Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) techniques it has developed to model artificial surf reefs, in which there is growing interest in Europe and elsewhere.

1st June 2009

CFD modeling of artificial surfing reefs

1st June 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Most crew on modern vessels have become used to relying heavily on electronic navigation systems, but what happens if there is a system malfunction or power failure?

1st June 2009

Navigation back-up pops up at Seawork

1st June 2009

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Cummins Inc showcased its EPA Tier 2 certified and IMO Tier II compliant Quantum System 50 litre engine at the NorShipping 2009 exhibition in Oslo last month, marking the first time a…

1st June 2009

Cummins launches QSK50 at NorShipping

1st June 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Nine lifeboats presently operating in the Ekofisk oil field are to be refurbished by Schat-Harding.

1st June 2009

Upgraded lifeboats for offshore operations

1st June 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

UK based marine safety equipment supplier Cosalt will be showing off its new Premier 2010 lifejacket and the new Cosalt Personal Recovery Device (CPRD) at this year' s Seawork exhibition.

1st June 2009

See MSC lifejacket a year early at Seawork

1st June 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The Port of Tyne’ s marine department were put through their paces recently during a successful emergency training day. Held at South Tyneside College’ s marine simulator, the exercise scenario involved a…

1st June 2009

Port of Tyne simulates tug collision

1st June 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

A new form of marine rescue sled from an equally new company is to be launched at Seawork 2009.

1st June 2009

ResQsled sleighs them at Seawork

1st June 2009