Ports & Harbours – Page 78
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NewsNew Funding Brings Tidal Stream Energy Project Closer
Bristol UK based Marine Current Turbines has received £ 3.85m from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to help fund their SeaGen tidal energy project. The grant to Sea Generation Ltd , a wholly owned subsidiary of Marine Current Turbines , will go towards developing and testing the device ...
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NewsDuke Opens Dorset Project
The Duke of York has officially opened Costain ''s West Bay project in Dorset, which will provide flood protection and vastly improved harbour facilities for the small Dorset town.
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NewsMacGregor Linkspan Completes Immingham Ro-Ro Access System
MacGregor has strengthened its relationship with Danish ferry operator DFDS by securing a new order for a large linkspan installation at Immingham in the UK, making the inner harbour accessible at all times The MacGregor Group''s ro-ro ships division has signed a contract with DFDS Tor Line to design and ...
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NewsABPmer Helps Secure Planning for New Coastal Habitat
ABPmer , Associated British Ports '' marine environment research subsidiary, has helped secure planning permission for the creation of 108 hectares of new coastal habitat on Wallasea Island on Crouch Estuary in Essex. ABPmer provided the scientific research that supported DEFRA ''s European Wildlife Division ''sapplication to the Planning Authority ...
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Newsiicorr Secures ALWC Work
Corrosion control specialists iicorr in Aberdeen says it has secured contracts worth around £ 400,000 to carry out corrosion control work for a number of Scottish ports including those at Orkney, Wick, Barra and Lochinver.
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NewsShort Term Solution Proposed for East Head
Agreement has been reached by all interested parties that short term action should be taken to repair a 90m long eroded section of sand dunes at the neck of East Head, a natural sand and shingle spit at the mouth of Chichester Harbour on the south coast of the UK, ...
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EBRD Loan to Aid Reconstruction of Dubrovnik Harbour
As more and more cruise passengers flock to Dubrovnik, one of the most popular attractions on the Adriatic Sea, a ? 26.5m EBRD loan is to be used to help modernise Gruz Harbour to meet the growing demand. The loan is part of a plan by the Dubrovnik Port Authority ...
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NewsMore Orders for Xbloc Armoured Units
Xbloc armoured units of the type developed by Delta Marine Consultants (DMC) in the Netherlands have been selected for a number of new projects in different locations around the world, according to company spokesperson Bas Reedijk.
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Breakwater Considered to Strengthen Sea Defences
A £ 50 million pound harbour and breakwater is being considered as one of a number of the proposals to strengthen the sea defences at Weston on the north Somerset coast in the UK.
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Port of Ngqura Taking Shape
Construction of South Africa''s newest harbour, Port of Ngqura, at Port Elizabeth, in the Eastern Cape, is progressing according to schedule, with approximately Rand 2 billion already having been spent on infrastructure.
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NewsFirm Foundations for the Isle of Grain
Land and marine geotechnical investigations for a proposed LNG terminal, including an unloading jetty and pipeline at Horseshoe Point on the Isle of Grain in Kent UK, has been completed by Fugro Engineering Services (FES) for Skanska Whessoe .
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Tidal Surge of Financial Support for UK Marine Renewables
With the pre-Christmas commissioning of the Scroby Sands wind farm just off the beach at Great Yarmouth, the UK has moved into position as the second largest offshore wind generator in the world, after Denmark. Scroby Sands'' 30 turbines, generating a maximum of 60MW, nearly doubled Britain''s operational capacity to ...
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Reclamation Contract Awarded
Dutch dredging and marine contractor Van Oord has been awarded a contract for constructing the entrance to and reclamation of land for the construction of a cruise terminal on the Turk & Caicos islands. The client is Bahamas based T&C Cruise Terminals Ltd , and the total value of the ...
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NewsImprovements in Full Swing at Skandia Harbour
Excavation, piling and the laying of foundations are in full swing at the eastern Skandia Harbour container yard in the Swedish Port of Goteborg . The quay and the surfaces within the quay are being reinforced while dredging increases the depth alongside 500m of 1,200m long southern quay from 12m ...
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NewsSeabed Study for EuropeAfrica Tunnel
The Anglo Norwegian joint venture of Seacore Ltd and Eidesvik Subsea AS has been awarded an open tender contract by the joint Moroccan and Spanish authorities to perform a marine site investigation of the seabed under the Straits of Gibraltar.
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First Ever Linkspan Order for TTS
Gothenburg based TTS Ships Equipment AB has won a contract from Stena Line Scandinavia AB for the turnkey delivery of linkspan for the Stena Terminal at Verko, near Karlskrona in Sweden. It is TTS''s first ever linkspan order.
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NewsBridge Removal Over Shallow Waters
The Montrose New Bridge , via which the A92 crossed the river South Esk on the East Coast of Scotland until last October, was in fact 73 years old and dying from a form of concrete deterioration known as Alkali Aggregate Reactivity.
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NewsA Planning System For the Sea
UK Government Ministers have backed a pilot project which could lead to a new, plan-led approach to protecting and managing Britain''s seas in a more sustainable way.
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NewsEastPort Project Moves Step Closer
At the end of January, the UK Secretary of State for Transport, Alistair Darling, set out his view on the proposal to support the Great Yarmouth Outer Harbour (EastPort) scheme with public funding, noting that, as the Great Yarmouth areas is among the most deprived areas of the UK, and ...
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Euro Project Addressing Aggregates Issues
A European project called EUMARSAND is being uses to determine the potential effects on the marine environment of aggregates extraction, MJ has learned.
