Ports & Harbours – Page 77
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NewsBarrow Windfarm Works Underway
Marine Projects International Limited won the £ 20 million contract last month for the offshore construction phase of the Barrow Offshore Windfarm .The contract for Vestas Kellogg Brown & Root (VKBR) was won despite stiff competition from European rivals and includes the transportation of foundations from Belgium, operation of the ...
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NewsLand & Water to Unlock Waterways Freight Potential
Specialist contractor Land & Water Group has been appointed by British Waterways to play a major role in an £ 1.6 million initiative to revive commercial traffic on West London''s canals.
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Pontoon Project transforms Thames Terminal
UK marine engineers Houlder Limited have completed a residential pontoon contract at Wandsworth on London''s River Thames. Houlder have installed the mooring facility for river residents, providing quick access to central London.
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NewsJack-ups Conduct Wind Farm Investigations
Fugro Engineering Services (FES) and Alluvial Mining Ltd have been employed by Offshore Windpower Ltd to determine ground conditions at the Lynn and Inner Dowsing wind farm site off the Lincolnshire UK coast approximately 8 km east of Skegness.
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NewsICC Calls for Investment in Ports
As highlighted on page 97, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has issued a statement in which it says it is concerned about the inadequacy of infrastructure serving many ports worldwide, a problem which it believes is threatening the smooth flow of global trade, and has called on the industry ...
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News£5 Million Redevelopment for Port of Teignmouth
Associated British Ports (ABP) will invest £ 5 million in a major redevelopment of port operations at Teignmouth in Devon on the back of long term contracts with existing and new customers.
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NewsNew Reclamation Project Proposed in Bahrain
Gulf Finance House BSC (GFH), one of the leading Islamic investment banks in the Middle East, and Bahrain-based Dala Development Properties Management Co WLL (Dala Development), have announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop Two Seas - an 11 million square metre freehold island project, which ...
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Port Construction Funding for Merseyside
Britain''s Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott announced £ 17 million of funding last month for the construction of a 250m extension to Liverpool''s Pier Head which will be used as a new cruise liner facility.
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Jan de Nul Starts Trenching Work for Langeled Project
Work on excavating a trench to the landfall for the Langeled gas trunkline is well under way on the seabed off Easington on the east coast of the UK, with Jan de Nul ''s dredger J F J de Nul dredger excavating the trench.
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NewsEuropean Ports 'Could Become Bottlenecks of World Trade'
The 24th Bi-annual Conference of the International Association of Ports and Harbours (IAPH), which took place in Shanghai 21-27 May, marking the 50th anniversary of the organisation, concluded with a stark warning for European ports.
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Berthing Gains as Sovereign Harbour Grows
Extending a successful long term partnership, Sovereign Harbour has commissioned Walcon Marine to install pontoon equipment for a further 80 berths in its North Harbour at Eastbourne.
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Tidal Current Breakthrough in Orkney with 'Sea Snail'
The Robert Gordon University Sea Snail , designed as a support system for tidal current energy devices, was towed out of Stromness Harbour last month and successfully installed in Burra Sound, Orkney.
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NewsGreen Light for the World's First Commercial Wave Farm
Edinburgh based Ocean Power Delivery (OPD) signed an order last month with a Portuguese consortium led by Enersis to build the initial phase of the world''s first commercial wave farm to generate renewable energy from ocean waves.
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NewsSwedish Ports Building to Win
The Municipality of Gavle in Sweden is investing 6.5m in the Port of Gavle to create a new quay and for dredging in order to allow calls by larger container ships. Together with investments in new container cranes by Gavle Containerterminal AB , the works will result in a capacity ...
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Funding Secured
Plans have been approved by Aberdeenshire Council and Scottish Enterprise Grampian for a multi-million Pound marina at Banff on the Scottish coast.
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NewsCIRIA Project Provides New Solutions for ALWC
A new report from the Construction Industry Research Association (CIRIA) is offering ports and harbours new insights into, and new tools to fight, Accelerated Low Water Corrosion (ALWC).
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NewsRevised Standard for CP Systems Due Next Year
An updated and revised version of a European standard for cathodic protection of harbour structures, EN 13174, which will be of direct use for port and harbour engineers planning protection against ALWC or dealing with its effects, should be available early next year.
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WL Delft Hydraulics Leads Remote Sensing Project
WLDelft Hydraulics and partners Argoss, NLR and Van Oord NV have received funding from the National User Support Programme for Remote Sensing in the Netherlands for the Restscod-2 project, a project that follows-on from the recently completed Restscod-1 , which was conducted by the same project team.
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NewsBig Business in Bespoke Pontoons
Hampshire UK based pontoon innovator Intermarine is celebrating the completion of over £ 1.5 million of bespoke projects in the last 12 months at sites ranging from Scotland to Cornwall, with each designed to meet the specific environmental and operational requirements of a diverse group of clients.
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NewsExpansion Plans at Folkestone Harbour
Development plans for Folkestone Harbour UK include the introduction of two further berths to accommodate larger vessels of up to 7m draft and a harbour dredging programme as well as the ongoing refurbishment of existing berths and the creation of more cargo handling storage space and vehicle standage areas. Port ...
