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DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The keel laying of the Jan De Nuls mega trailing suction hopper dredger Leiv Eiriksson took place at the shipyard Construcciones Navales del Norte inSestao, Spain, late last month.

1st September 2008

Jumbo big sister on the slipway

1st September 2008

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Transas Marine UK in Portsmouth has been commissioned to supply and install its Navi-Sailor 4000 dual ECDIS systems aboard Cemex UK Marines fleet of seven vessels engaged in supplying dredged marine aggregates…

1st September 2008

Cemex opts for Transas ECDIS

1st September 2008

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

A $250,000 calibration laboratory and cable moulding facility doubling the size of its operations has been opened by Seatronics Inc at its Houston premises.

1st September 2008

Seatronics expands Houston base

1st September 2008

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Dutch survey software specialists Quality Positioning Services (QPS) of Zeist have extended their established QINSy 8 series of data acquisition and navigation software modules with introduction of a new low cost suite…

1st September 2008

Single beam survey software

1st September 2008

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The accuracy of Galileo, Europes multi-billion euro satellite positioning network due to become operational around 2014, is better than GPS according to a team of three researchers from Delft Technical Universitys Faculty…

1st September 2008

Galileo signal accuracy measured

1st September 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Construction was finally starting this month on the ¢ 1bn first phase of Rotterdams giant new North Sea Maasvlakte 2 complex, which will eventually house deepsea container, distribution and chemical industry facilities…

1st September 2008

Rotterdam starts construction at Maasvlakte 2

1st September 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A £ 400m contract was signed last month which will launch the first stage of construction for DP World' s £ 1.5bn London Gateway container port and business park development at the…

1st September 2008

Door opens for London Gateway construction

1st September 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Work has started on expanding the capacity of the UKs largest container port. The first stages of the Felixstowe South Reconfiguration (FSR) involved demolition of the old dock basin and buildings, demolition…

1st September 2008

Felixstowe port expansion begins

1st September 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The UK energy company E.ON announced plans last month to build one of UKs largest biomass power stations at the Port of Bristol.

1st September 2008

Biomass power plans for Port of Bristol

1st September 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The two major Dutch dredging contractors Van Oord and Royal Boskalis Westminster nv have been awarded a contract by the Dutch Directorate General for Public Works and Water Management to reinforce a…

1st September 2008

Dutch partners for coastal protection works

1st September 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The creation of tidal marshes on the mudflat side of the Dutch Closure Dike (Afsluitdijk) will provide the Netherlands with a sea defense, a new nature area as well as recreation opportunities.

1st September 2008

Dutch plan sustainable sea defenses

1st September 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Doncaster UK based Soil Mechanics has been awarded a £ 1.4 million ground investigation contract from power company EDF Energy for the proposed construction of an offshore wind farm located in the…

1st September 2008

Determining sound foundations for offshore wind

1st September 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Port Khorfakkan is Sharjahs sole port on the Indian Ocean and is dedicated entirely to container handling. Expansion works are well underway to extend the present quay of 1460m by a further…

1st September 2008

Mountains move for Port Khorfakken expansion

1st September 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

DHI, Vestas, and Dong Energy have recently finished an evaluation of the scour protection scheme implemented at the Horns Rev I Wind Farm, which is located off the North Sea coast of…

1st September 2008

DHI evaluates scour protection for wind turbines

1st September 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Crown Estate in the UK has announced a net revenue surplus of £ 211.4 million for the year ending 31st March 2008, a 5.6 per cent increase on last year. All…

1st September 2008

Crown Estate increases turnover from aggregates dredging

1st September 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Survey work by a consortium of firms involved in construction of the $3 billion Qatar-Bahrain Causeway got under way recently.

1st September 2008

Survey work for Qatar-Bahrain causeway gets under way

1st September 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Van Oord has been awarded a contract to build a 5.5km quay wall on the Deira Islands in Dubai. Van Oord has already received an award for a 3.5km quay wall for…

1st September 2008

Van Oord awarded contract for quay wall in Dubai

1st September 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Nakheel, the developer based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has begun reclamation work for the US$599m Mina Rashid project.

1st September 2008

Nakheel begins reclamation of Mina Rashid

1st September 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A total of 10 Eco-Xbloc armoured units have been placed on the southern breakwater at Ijmuiden in The Netherlands in order to evaluate their ability to play a role creating habitats for…

1st September 2008

Xblocs installed on breakwater at IJmuiden

1st September 2008

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

This month sees the often humble buoy rising in the world of technology as a UK company steps into production of Automatic Identification System (AIS) units that will be fitted to many…

1st September 2008

ATONIS adds data for bright buoys

1st September 2008