Ports & Harbours
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NewsEurope creates port land to accommodate wind boom
Europe is accelerating land reclamation projects to support offshore wind expansion, with DEME at the centre of a growing pipeline of port developments across the region.
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NewsTeesport Offshore Gateway aims to rival UK’s largest offshore wind ports
PD Ports says it plans to have a major offshore wind hub up and running within two years, competing with the more established UK ports.
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NewsFinland plans major port overhaul to accommodate offshore wind
Finland is planning to establish a major offshore wind logistics base at Koverhar Harbour, with developers and port operators revealing details of the infrastructure required to support gigawatt-scale projects in the Baltic Sea.
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NewsPort Talbot wind hub advances
The UK government is backing Port Talbot investment to support floating offshore wind growth, jobs and regional regeneration
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NewsEU Ports Strategy does not go far enough: WindEurope
As Brussels lays out an ambitious vision for ports as Europe’s energy hubs, the wind industry is warning that without dedicated public finance, the infrastructure bottlenecks threatening the offshore wind build-out will not be solved.
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NewsBoskalis wins Aberdeen dredging deal
Three-year dredging contract will maintain safe access and support Aberdeen’s expanded South Harbour operations
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NewsSpecial report: Transforming America’s Arctic ports
For nearly two decades, the idea of an American deep-water Arctic port has been on paper only, passed around in congressional hearings, quietly shelved by budget realities and periodically revived as alarm about Russian and Chinese activity in the Arctic grew louder.
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News - VideosWATCH: €500 million works to transform ‘Gateway to the Mediterranean’
One of Europe’s historic maritime gateways is being transformed to accommodate larger vessels and growing cargo volumes.
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NewsClosing the gap between electric vessels and port capacity
Across Europe and much of the world, it has moved from policy discussions to real vessels in the water. Yet a new constraint is becoming increasingly visible: vessels are evolving faster than the coastal infrastructure meant to support them. Michael Priv, founder of Blue Vector Ocean Alliance, has a solution.
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NewsFEATURE: Inside Bilbao’s electric port transition
Ivan Jimenez, CEO of the Port of Bilbao, talks to Maritime Journal about electrification, e-fuels and the digital transformation reshaping one of Europe’s most strategically vital Atlantic ports.
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NewsVessels shun shorepower due to energy costs
A £20 million shorepower project at one of the UK’s busiest ports has been lying idle despite being installed and ready to go.
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NewsPorts of the future: safer, smarter and always on
The ports of tomorrow will be completely different from today: yet that vision is not very far away from reality. Graham Wilde, head of Private Networks with Three Group Solutions, describes how far the Port of Felixstowe has travelled along the smart route.
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NewsNew Dutch coalition makes maritime ‘national strategic importance’
The Netherlands’ maritime and offshore sectors have been given a major boost with a new agreement explicitly designating maritime manufacturing as a sector of national strategic importance.
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NewsNew dredging tax rule to destroy goals it aims to achieve
The UK waterways industry says axing a dredging tax exemption will increase emissions, stall clean-ups and directly contradict environmental ambitions.
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News - VideosWATCH: Rotterdam’s hydrogen’s future takes shape
Europe’s largest industrial port is fast becoming a hydrogen hub for the continent, with big ambitions and concrete plans all taking shape.
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NewsLatvia joins offshore tide with port hub plans
Latvia is positioning a port at its capital of Riga as a Baltic regional hub for offshore wind in the region’s nascent industry.
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NewsIreland lays out plans for offshore wind hub
Plans have been set out for a purpose-built port facility dedicated to offshore wind in the southeast of Ireland.
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NewsCould floating nuclear ignite an energy revolution?
Floating Nuclear Power Plants (FNPPs) are poised to deliver gigawatt-scale output — potentially supplying almost an entire nation’s power demand – under designs unveiled by UK maritime technology firm Core Power.
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News‘Technological rat race’ among obstacles in offshore wind: report
A new white paper released by the Port of Rotterdam says offshore wind is going to be vital in shouldering a share of the burden of energy needs.
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NewsABP unveils latest large ports spending
Associated British Ports has unveiled the latest tranche of a major capital spending programme at its five ports in South Wales.
