Ports & Harbours – Page 48
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Work commences on Hightown Coastal Defences
Birse Coastal has commenced construction work on the £1.15m Hightown Dune Restoration Project for Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council in the UK. This follows a 12 month Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) period.
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NewsLord Foster reveals more about Thames Hub
British architect Lord Foster used a recent lecture at the University of Oxford to reveal more details of the recently proposed ‘Thames Hub’ (see MJ NOV 2011).
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New container terminal for Le Havre
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and Terminaux de Normandie have announced details of an ambitious plan to build a new container terminal at Port of Le Have in France.
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NewsRecord sub-sea tunnel construction delay
Construction of Norway’s planned 25 km Rogfast Tunnel, which will be the longest submerged tunnel in the world and also the deepest, is now not expected to get under way until the end of 2014.
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News‘World’s largest lock’ underway in Antwerp
Construction officially began on Monday in the Port of Antwerp for construction of the €340m Deurganck lock, the second lock on the left bank.
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NewsKiel Port expands with new cruise berth
The German Baltic port of Kiel, which has invested over €60m in new passenger and freight facilities over the past five years, is now planning more investment to boost cargo and cope with bigger cruise ships.
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NewsLondon Gateway opening date announced
London Gateway, the new port and logistics centre project currently under construction in the lower reaches of the River Thames, will open in the fourth quarter of 2013 with an initial capacity of 1.6m TEU.
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NewsLerwick pressing ahead with new facilities
The continuing development of facilities and services at Lerwick Harbour in Scotland is reinforcing and evolving the port’s role in supporting the offshore oil and gas industry across its range of operations.
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NewsFelixstowe provides boost to UK economy
The Port of Felixstowe, the UK’s largest container port, formally opened a new deep water shipping terminal on 28 September 2011.
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NewsWalcon completes marina projects
Walcon Marine recently completed two major projects in the UK, at Poole and Woolverstone respectively.
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NewsGood progress at Rotterdam’s Maasvlakte 2
The Port of Rotterdam Authority’s (PRA), Maasvlakte 2 port development is on schedule to welcome the first ship in 2013.
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NewsWorld’s largest sea lock for Antwerp
The construction of the second lock in the Port of Antwerp’s Waaslandhaven is scheduled to start this month.
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NewsResearch affirms breakwater effectiveness
To better understand how breakwaters function and to perfect their products, SF Marina''s team collaborates with professional research institutes throughout the world.
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NewsNew Rostock facility ups ferry clout
The Port of Rostock says construction is on track “within a very tight and ambitious time frame” at its new €22m ferry Berth 54 due to open next spring to meet rising demand for ferry services with Denmark.
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NewsBristol Docks open after £12m revamp
The refurbished docks in Bristol were officially opened this summer, following Opus’ work on the scheme to ensure the future effective working of Bristol Docks and to reinforce the city’s flood defences.
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NewsFacts about early contractor involvement
The Hague based International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has released the latest in its popular series of Facts About executive summaries.
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Artificial island proposed for Turkmenistan
Dutch company Van Oord has proposed construction of an artificial island in the Caspian Sea near the resort of Avaz in Turkmenistan, as its area manager Johannes Hafkenscheid said in an interview with a local newspaper.
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Minor tsunami monitored off UK coast
A network of coastal tidal and wave monitoring stations maintained by EMU Limited recorded the progress of the waves caused by a minor tsunami along the south coast of the UK at the end of June.
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NewsFirst floating jetty for Lake Windermere
The first ever floating jetty project on England’s Lake Windermere has been completed by Falmouth based Marine Designs Ltd, part of the A&P Group.
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NewsCapacity expansion at strategic terminal
Hamburg based port and logistics group Buss has processed the first cargo ship at its newly acquired multi-purpose Orange Blue Terminal in the Dutch North Sea deepwater port of Eemshaven.
