Ports & Harbours – Page 74
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£5m Kickstarts Barrow Masterplan
The first step of a comprehensive masterplan to transform Barrow in the UK has been given the green light with an investment of over £ 5m from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA).
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NewsGeosynthetic Liner Enables Austrian River Diversion
A river diversion project in Austria which has released an additional six hectares of land on which to build a new hospital was made possible by a self-sealing geosynthetic clay liner.
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NewsInvestment for 'Fast Jets' in Boulogne
The Boulogne Chamber of Commerce and Industry has announced a 20m investment in a new ro-ro berth which is due to go into service in 2007.
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NewsVenice Flood Barrier Works Underway
Some 40 years after an abnormal high tide flooded the city and made 5,000 people homeless, the massive marine construction project to protect Venice in Italy is now underway. The Modello Sperimentale Elettromeccanico (MOSE) project involves a system of moveable, automatically operated dikes being placed at the entrance of the ...
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NewsNo Slip-Ups at Seawork
Visitors to Godmanchester''s inland waterways on the River Ouse can look forward to using four new public mooring pontoons this year. Operated by the UK Environment Agency, the existing mooring pontoons were ageing wooden constructions which were a potential safety hazard for users, especially in wet conditions.
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NewsDean and Dyball to Develop Woolston Riverside
Another milestone in the transformation of the Woolston Riverside site in Southampton in the UK was reached last month with the announcement that the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) has chosen Dean and Dyball Developments as its preferred commercial development partner for the site.
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New Funding for Irish Harbours
Ireland''s Marine Minister, Pat the Cope Gallagher, has announced that he has approved the allocation of funding for a number of port infrastructure projects.
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NewsLong Term Solution for East Head Sought
The future of Chichester Harbour, the largest purely recreational harbour in the UK in terms of its size, number of vessels and range of boating activity could be in doubt if a long term plan is not put in place to prevent continued erosion of the feature known as East ...
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NewsFelixstowe South Port Reconfiguration Approved
At the end of last month UK Transport Minister Derek Twigg announced that he has approved the proposals for a new container terminal at Felixstowe South. The proposals by Hutchison Ports involve the reconfiguration of the Port''s original Dock Basin, an area previously used by P& O North Sea Ferries, ...
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NewsSoft Soils Site Investigation
When completed, Jamaica''s 234km Highway 2000 (H2000) toll road will link towns on the southern coast to the capital Kingston, with further branches to coastal resorts in the North, including Montego Bay. The majority of the H2000 roads will be constructed on weathered rock deposits. The toll road will be ...
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NewsLargest Sea Jetty for Port of Rotterdam
Construction work started earlier this month on what will be the largest sea jetty in the Port of Rotterdam.
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Seacore Secures Control of Seacone
Cornwall UK based marine civil engineering contractors Seacore Ltd has acquired from Lankelma CPT Ltd its 50% shareholding in Lankelma Seacore Offshore, the offshore cone penetrometer testing contractor formed by Lankelma and Seacore in 2002. Seacore now holds 100% of the shares in the specialist offshore geotechnical investigation company, which ...
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NewsBudget Pontoon Boosts Trade on Loch Fyne
A specially designed pontoon recently completed for a small Argyll community will prove a major attraction for leisure users and help boost the local economy. The 50m long pontoon was installed on the shore of Loch Fyne by outdoor equipment specialists Fusion Marine Ltd for the Otter Ferry Community Association.
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NewsMersey Marine Power Study Launched
The potential for generating electricity by tidal and wave power on the Mersey Estuary is to be considered in a major study initiated by Peel Holdings Group and the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA).
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Shortsea Terminal Underway at Flushing
Dutch firm Kloosterboer has started construction of a shortsea container terminal at Flushing.
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NewsContainer Capacity Drive at Port of Hamburg
The City of Hamburg and the newly founded Hamburg Port Authority published their latest Port Development Plan last year, which forecast a rise of containerised cargo volume to 13m TEU by 2010 from what has proven to be a record setting 8.1m TEU in 2005.
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NewsUK Research Guides Hurricane Bridge Repairs
The UK civil engineering hydraulics consultancy HR Wallingford has been contracted by the Federal Highways Administration (FHWA) in Washington DC to apply prediction methods for wave forces developed at Wallingford to US bridges damaged last year by hurricanes Katrina and Ivan.
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NewsClyde Revives with Commercial Boatyard
The first phase of the River Clyde Boatyard at Rothesay Dock East in Clydebank opened for business recently.
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NewsStructural Repair for Fleetwood Ro-Ro Jetty
Structural Repairtechnique (SR), a division of specialist piling contractor Systems Geotechnique, has carried out a repair operation on the Stena Line ro-ro jetty at Fleetwood in Lancashire UK. The jetty, which handles freight and passenger vehicles destined to Larne in Northern Island, is formed by concrete crossheads supported on piles ...
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Interbeton Wins Contract for LNG Jetty in Australia
Interbeton bv, part of Royal BAM Group, has been awarded a joint venture contract by Woodside Energy Ltd, operator of the North West Shelf Venture, to construct a second LNG loading berth at its onshore gas processing facilities near Karratha on the Australian west coast. The contract amounts to approximately ...
