Ports & Harbours – Page 88
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Morrison Construction at Work on Weirs
Techniques usually used on the seabed are being applied by British Waterways Contractor Morrison Construction to repair a historic weir on the River Severn.
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Alderney Breakwater Project nears Resolution
The future of the Alderney breakwater - which protects Bray Harbour on Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands - may soon become clearer, and restoration work could commence at the start of next year.
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Euro-Funding Supports Port of Holyhead Development
Stena Line Ports Ltd will undertake a £ 12.3 million investment to build a new berth and associated infrastructure at the Port of Holyhead with the support of Objective 1 funding from the European Regional Development Fund.
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NewsMarina Wizards on Building Spree in Oz
Marina development is on the up down under and one beneficiary is Bellingham Marine Australia. The company has recently completed two new projects, including the design and construction of a 70 slip facility at Coomera Waters in Queensland.
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NewsBlarney Bonus as Dry Jackup Rescues Dublin Tunnelling
Howard Marine Ltd of Plymouth UK recently solved problems for contractors at a tunnelling project in Dublin by supplying their jackup barge Zee Jack Skipper for an application completely devoid of water.
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NewsPortsmouth Gets Flexible with Double Deck Linkspan
Portsmouth Commercial Port has unveiled engineering plans that will transform Berth 3 at the continental ferry port by providing a new double deck linkspan with the flexibility to meet the loading requirements of modern cruise ferries and fast craft. The decision to proceed with the £ 7 million project reflects ...
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NewsRo-Ro Linkspans Go Fail-Safe with Rosafe
Bosch Rexroth and Royal Haskoning have jointly developed and patented a dynamic, independent braking device designed to increase the safety and reliability of ship to shore lifting equipment used for roll-on/roll-off ferry services.
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NewsBeirut Breakwater Boosted by Core Penetrometer
The revival of war torn Beirut continues apace, with particularly high levels of activity along the waterfront.
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Imported Sand Needed to Protect Catalan Beaches?
Submerged breakwaters located just offshore are being proposed as one of a number of solutions for the high level of erosion that is taking place along many beaches in Spain.
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Bouygues Offshore Contracted to Build Container Terminal
Bouygues Offshore and Bouygues Travaux Publics (a subsidiary of Bouygues Construction) in France have signed a turnkey contract with Caucedo Investments Inc to build a container terminal in the Dominican Republic.
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NewsKlaipeda Harbour Project Approaches Completion
Danish marine civils contractor Per Aarsleff A/S is approaching completion of a major project at the Port of Klaipeda in Lithuania financed by the World Bank.
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NewsHSS Using Innovative Techniques at SCT
Southampton Container Terminals (SCT) has embarked on a five-month project to strengthen one of its four berths and further extend its capability to handle the world''s biggest container ships.
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Coastal Erosion Comes Under Scrutiny
A newly developed model for predicting coastal erosion came under the spotlight at a recent conference at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London.
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English Nature: No Change on Marine Conservation Areas
English Nature, the statutory body responsible for advising the UK government on the designation of marine Special Areas of Conservation (marine SACs) has confirmed that it does not intend to alter the way it designates the areas, even though a study it has recently completed indicates that other countries in ...
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News'Unsinkable' Replacement Pontoon Brings Wapping Great Success
With its 40 year old pontoon prone to leaking and sinking, London''s Metropolitan Police were in need of an ''unsinkable'' replacement at the Wapping Boat Yard on the river Thames.
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seawork Exhibitor Wins Groyne Innovation Award
Portsmouth UK-based Plasti Ltd, which will be exhibiting at seawork2002, has won a prestigious Government SMART Development Award to develop, construct and install a beach groyne using patented composite piles in combination with other sustainable materials.
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HR Wallingford Studies Coastal Defence Materials
HR Wallingford, the UK-based marine engineering consultants, has begun work on a project which, it is anticipated, will be of considerable interest to marine contractors, builders, and local authorities who are involved in sea defence or river protection works.
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NewsIJmuiden's Third Harbour Gets Ready to RoRo
The Third Harbour at the Dutch port of IJmuiden is nearing completion and is expecting to receive business by the end of this year. Despite problems such as weak surface layers that were discovered only after digging had begun and the need to relocate a protected species of sand lizard, ...
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NewsTitan Surveys Possible Boxport Development
A trend has developed in the Americas to place container trans-shipment ports off the eastern seaboard of the goods-hungry USA. North-south trade along the Atlantic coast and east-west traffic with Europe utilise these facilities.
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NewsDutch JV Begins Installation Work on Offshore Wind Turbine Project
Two Dutch contractors - Mammoet and Van Oord ACZ - have revealed details of the jack-up barge they have built and started to use as a platform to serve the rapidly growing market in Europe for offshore wind turbine installation work.
