Ports & Harbours – Page 29
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NewsHarbours role at Braemar
UK consultancy Braemar (Incorporating The Salvage Association) has announced that Mr Tim Lewis has been appointed to the newly created position of ‘Director, Ports & Harbours’. Mr Lewis holds a masters degree in Civil and Maritime Engineering, and a masters degree in Business Administration, and joins Braemar SA from another ...
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NewsExpansion at Portsmouth naval base
The British Defence Secretary has announced the investment of over £100 million in the development of the facilities at the naval base at Portsmouth. The major proportion of this money will be invested in expanding the facilities in order to handle the new generation of large aircraft carriers now under ...
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Ghent lock
Flemish minister Ben Weyts (Mobility and Public Works) and Dutch minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen (Infrastructure and Environmental Affairs) recently signed the ‘Treaty between the Netherlands and Flanders for the construction of the New Lock Terneuzen’. The new Terneuzen lock will improve the access to the ports of Ghent and ...
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NewsA solution for Venice?
Venice has had big issues; the fragility of its foundations has pitted the city’s protectionists and the cruise industry in a head-to-head battle that has gone on for years.
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NewsPolice boathouse
Netherlands-based Shipyard Hoebée B.V. (part of the Kooiman Group) has signed a contract for the design, construction and installation of a floating boathouse for the harbour police in Rotterdam.
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NewsNuuk terminal
Plans for a new container terminal at Nuuk harbour in Greenland are well advanced with the contract for the work awarded recently. An agreement has been signed between Sikuki Nuuk Harbour A/S and the Danish general infrastructure contractor Aarsleff for the first phase of the development of the proposed new ...
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NewsMaasvlakte 2 gets into full swing
The container terminals are ready, tankers are transferring oil between each other and the world’s biggest ship has arrived - Port of Rotterdam Authority’s flagship development Maasvlakte 2 is ready for service
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NewsPort of Tyne Riverside Quay developments
The UK''s Port of Tyne is stepping up the pace in the race to provide clean, green renewable fuels for the future with investment plans priced at £180 million for its south bank estate in South Tyneside. This follows several years of record growth in which the Port has focussed ...
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NewsGreen energy in Bremerhaven
German terminal operator Eurogate recently started up its second wind Turbine at Bremerhaven. The device at the Bremerhaven site is the second the company has put into operation after Hamburg. The ‘green electricity’ generated by the turbine will be used to cover the terminal’s own energy requirement.
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Irish upgrade
The Port of Cork has just announced that it will invest over €1.5 million in upgrading facilities at Cobh Cruise Terminal, Ireland’s only dedicated cruise berth, with the installation of a number of high load mooring bollards at the east and west end of the Cobh Cruise Berth which will ...
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NewsPort equipment orders
Global engineering group Cavotec has won orders for its equipment for ports in Australia, Indonesia, Oman, Portugal and Turkey, and for two major shipping lines, with a combined value of more than EUR 11.5 million.
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NewsBelfast Harbour awards tender for port management system
Canada’s Klein Systems Group has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Belfast Harbour, Northern Ireland, to install the KleinPort Port Management Information System. Belfast Harbour Commissioners selected Klein as the system supplier after an extensive public tendering process for a new port management system.
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NTB and Eurogate Hamburg productivity awarded
At the JOC Group Port Performance Conference Europe NTB and Eurogate Hamburg container terminal operators successfully garnered a top-three rating among the ‘Top Terminals Europe – First Half 2014’.
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NewsNew lock gates for Milford
A giant set of new lock gates has arrived by barge in Milford Haven, UK. The gates are part of the Port’s £6m Milford Dock Lock Project which will reduce locking times and, hopes Milford Dock, help make the marina one of the UK’s top marine leisure destinations.
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NewsNever mind the bollards
According to UK company Tyne and Wear Marine (TWM), common misconceptions abound when it comes to testing bollards. For example, many seem to think that bollards should be tested at 90° to the quayside and on a rare occasion this may be true – but, however it’s not always practical.
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NewsLNG first for Bremenports
The ports of Bremen and Bremerhaven are doing much to address the issue of air quality. Not only are they engaged in facilitating LNG infrastructure, they are proving that the ports’ own operations can be cleaned up.
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NewsBridges for Hamburg
Spanish port boarding solutions provider Adelte has announced that it will design, manufacture and install two state-of-the-art HYDRA-model Seaport Passenger Boarding Bridges (SPBBs) for the new Hamburg cruise terminal.
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NewsGrimsby pontoon
Commercial pontoon specialist Marine Designs Ltd, part of the A&P Group, has completed its 11th offshore wind related project with the installation of crew transfer pontoons in Grimsby Fish Docks for the EON Humber Gateway Windfarm Project.
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NewsFocus on The Port of Cork
Cork Harbour, on the south coast of Ireland, reputed to be the second largest harbour in the world, sees a great variety of shipping, with some 4,500 vessel movements per annum. The Port of Cork is one of only two Irish ports that handle Lift-on Lift-off, Ro-Ro, Liquid Bulk, Dry ...
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NewsExpansion contract awarded
Lerwick Port Authority has awarded a construction contract for the latest expansion of the harbour’s facilities in a project costing a total of £16.5 million and which will benefit the fishing and oil sectors.
