Ports & Harbours – Page 57

  • The new facility for wind farm vessels is now complete.
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    Walcon completes wind farm facility at Buxton Bight

    2010-07-15T16:10:00Z

    Walcon Marine in the UK says work on the new Outer Harbour at Buxton’s Bight at Wells-next-the-Sea on the coast of Norfolk was recently completed.

  • The new 460 hectare German site on the eastern side at Rysumer Nacken would be on about 12m of water, a big advantage over 8.3m in the existing port of Emden further inland.
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    Emden plans new deepwater port

    2010-06-03T10:23:00Z

    More than 20 years after it gave up on a new port in the Dollart Hafen, the north German port city of Emden is reviving plans for an additional port.

  • The wave climate in the vicinity of Marsaxlokk Bay sets design parameters which must address protection for the fishing village whilst mitigating against fairway infilling
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    Complex considerations for Maltese breakwater project

    2010-05-28T17:13:00Z

    Malta, explains Nigel West of ABPMer, has an enormous strategic importance for the marine industry, and consequently an equally large maritime built environment. This in itself generates a background complexity for marine structures in the area, and Marsaxlokk fishing village is no exception.

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    Concrete evidence that change is needed

    2010-05-27T16:54:00Z

    The use of concrete in maritime engineering – a good practice manual (C674) will be launched on 8 July 2010 in London by the Construction Industry Research & Information Association (CIRIA).

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    Belgian Prince visits DEME project in Brazil

    2010-05-27T16:41:00Z

    Prince Filip of Belgium recently visited a remediation project being executed by DEME subsidiary DEC during his visit to Brazil on behalf of Flanders Investment & Trade.

  • More than 120 million m3 of sand has now been reclaimed onto the Maasvlakte 2 site.
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    Construction of Maasvlakte 2 enters new phase

    2010-05-27T16:36:00Z

    The Port of Rotterdam says construction of the Maasvlakte 2 project continues to proceed well.

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    Fugro awarded survey deal

    2010-05-27T16:31:00Z

    African Minerals Limited has awarded a contract for a site investigation project related to the development of Freetown Port in Sierra Leone to Fugro.

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    Shetland Islands Council to dredge Scalloway Harbour

    2010-05-27T16:27:00Z

    The Shetland Islands Council is to invest £3m this year in dredging Scalloway Harbour. The work will create a channel 8.5m deep by 100m wide, and straighten the approaches into the harbour. The harbour board had originally hoped to dredge to 9.5m, but this was deemed too expensive.

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    Dutch water expertise called upon in South Korea

    2010-05-27T16:19:00Z

    In the presence of Dutch Prime Minister, DHV consulting engineers and Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-water) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the Gyeong-in Ara Waterway.

  • Beaches play an important role either as barriers to coastal flooding and erosion or as part of man-made defences.
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    CIRIA updates beach manual

    2010-05-27T16:08:00Z

    The Construction Industry Research & Information Association (CIRIA) in the UK is launching an updated version of its Beach management manual.

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    Boskalis to construct LNG port in Poland

    2010-05-27T15:45:00Z

    Royal Boskalis Westminster NV has been awarded a contract for the construction of a new LNG port at Swinoujscie, near Szczecin in Poland. The total contract value is approximately €170m with Boskalis'' share amounting to approximately €75m.

  • Portland Marina, commissioned by marina operator Dean and Reddyhoff, will be a key waterfront facility in the 2012 Olympics.
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    Portland Marina ready for 2012 Olympics

    2010-05-27T15:38:00Z

    Walcon Marine in the UK has announced that the facilities for the sailing element of the 2012 Olympics are among the first to be completed for that event.

  • In order to limit the amount of time for which the lock was out of service, and to cater for variations in the tides around the dock, the time available for each of the emptying and filling operations was to be completed in less than three hours.
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    Pumping the dock dry for caisson refurbishment

    2010-05-27T13:11:00Z

    Faced with the requirement to pump 3m litres of water from Liverpool’s Langton Dock in just three hours, with potentially serious and costly consequences if things went wrong, Exsel Pumps decided to rely on variable speed drive systems from Ralspeed to control the pumps it would use for the challenging ...

  • AV Dawson moving a wind turbine to a waiting vessel.
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    River Tees looks to a green future

    2010-05-27T12:23:00Z

    In order to accommodate the growing number of bigger ships, especially those associated with the new alternative power industries, AV Dawson on the River Tees is developing plans that take advantage of a ‘greener’ future.

  • Aarsleff only had about a one hour working window at the extreme of the early morning and evening low tides.
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    Piling success boosts pier maintenance project

    2010-05-27T12:20:00Z

    Worthing Borough Council on the UK south coast is currently performing essential maintenance to the timber framed landing stage that surrounds the end of the West Sussex town’s approximate 150 year old Grade II listed pier.

  • The jack-up Haven Seajack 1 is seen with both the Forth rail and road bridges in the background.
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    Work starts on new Forth Crossing

    2010-05-27T11:15:00Z

    Marine investigative work has started in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, on the Forth Replacement Crossing, the proposed structure to replace the existing Forth Road Bridge.

  • Doolin Pier is the main access point from County Clare to the Aran Islands.
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    Outlook positive for Doolin Pier development

    2010-05-26T17:47:00Z

    The long awaited Doolin Harbour development looks like starting this summer, since Ireland’s Clare County Council has just closed the tender for the provision of consulting engineering led services associated with the design and build contract.

  • The new linkspan at Harwich is able to operate as two independent sections.
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    Double deck linkspan for fast turnaround at Harwich

    2010-05-26T17:41:00Z

    The UK’s Harwich International Port has completed preparations to receive the new generation of superferries to be introduced by Stena Line. The first vessel, the new ‘Stena Hollandica’, came into service on 16 May, with the ‘Stena Britannica’ to follow later in the season.

  • An LNG storage tank under construction at the GATE terminal in Rotterdam: Photo GATE
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    Rotterdam LNG developments proceeding apace

    2010-05-26T17:38:00Z

    The GATE terminal, the very first Dutch LNG import facility, which is now being constructed on Maasvlakte’s former ‘Papegaaiebek’ location is proceeding rapidly.

  • A transformer is transported at the BritNed site in Rotterdam. Photo: BritNed
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    ‘Oceans of Opportunity’ as European energy grid expands

    2010-05-26T17:29:00Z

    With offshore windfarm construction now in full swing around Europe’s shores attention is turning to the establishment of a Europe wide interconnector grid to share the benefits of this new green form of energy between EU member states, a number of which are now deeply committed to developing their own ...