Ports & Harbours – Page 81
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Oil Leak Deflates UK Port Figures
The British Government''s Department for Transport , which has recently rejected a proposed new container terminal at the Port of Southampton and must pass judgement on three more large schemes, has published provisional National Statistics on freight traffic through UK ports in 2003.
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MAREC 2004 Sees Seas of Opportunity Offshore
Governments have pledged that new and renewable energies will play an ever growing role in their national energy mixes.
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NewsSupport for Tenby RNLI
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution ''s new boathouse and slipway at Tenby in South Wales will be supported on a forest of tubular steel monopiles specialist marine civil engineering contractors Seacore has installed into the seabed rock.
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Marine Energy Challenge Assessing Projects
The Carbon Trust has chosen consulting engineers Halcrow Group Ltd , in partnership with engineering specialists Peter Brotherhood Ltd and Abbott Risk Consulting Ltd , as one of the main engineering consortia to be involved in its new Marine Energy Challenge (MEC) programme.
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NewsMarine Hubbub in South West UK
The South West of England Regional Development Agency (RDA) has appointed a project manager to take forward proposals to develop the Wave Hub , a proposal to kick start the region''s sea power industry.
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NewsGermans Expand Specialist Port Facilities
Specialist facility expansion in Germany''s two biggest seaports up to late 2005 is costing a total ¢ 60m, according to plans now revealed in Hamburg and the Weser ports complex of Bremen/ Bremerhaven.
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NewsThe Tide Turns Against Marine Corrosion
Corrosion is probably the single most serious cause of deterioration of reinforced concrete structures and is particularly prevalent in buildings and structures subjected to salts from the sea.
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NewsStemat Savours Successful Sinkings
The building consortium HSL Drechtse Steden wasresponsible for the design and construction of a new high speed rail line between Zwijndredcht and Moerdijk in Holland. This section of the route contains two submerged tunnels, one under the river Oude Maas and the other under the river Dordste Kil.
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NewsEssex Flood Defences Strategy Due
Consulting engineers Halcrow is in the final stages of a project on the Roach and Crouch estuaries in Essex.
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NewsModular Pontoons at seawork
The British company that earlier this year purchased the Eirfloat modular pontoon system manufactured and previously based in Ireland have got off to a flying start with a string of important orders. The company and the brand are now renamed Airfloat and will be exhibiting at seawork2004 .
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NewsScotland Zones In On Marine Renewables
The UK Government and the Scottish Executive are planning to deliver a one stop shop approach for offshore renewable energy consents in waters around Scotland.
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ICS Sand Scrubbers at seawork
seawork exhibitor International Commercial Shipping (ICS) has recently established itself in the worldwide dredging and sand scrubbing business.
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NewsHeavenly Fenders for Port of Angels
Pier 400 is an all new facility built at the Port of Los Angeles in California USA. New berths and container areas are set to open, expanding on a first phase which was completed in August 2002. In total, Pier 400 adds six new berths which cater for vessels up ...
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NewsFugro Has a Boring Time in Poole
The proposed second crossing for Poole Harbour will span a 19m stretch of the Backwater Channel between Poole and Hamworthy. Designed to become a memorable landmark, the new bridge will feature two triangular bascules which, as vessels pass through, will rotate into the vertical position forming a visually dramatic twin ...
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NewsGeotextiles Secure Canal Bed at Minden
The Mittellandkanal is one of the most important navigable waterways in Germany, providing an east-west route for inland waterborne transportation. Ships'' draughts continue to increase and are currently anything up to 2.50 metres. This has created a problem for the Mittellandkanal at Minden West.
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BMT Inputs Boxport Design
British Maritime Technology ''sSingapore based subsidiary BMT Asia Pacific Pte Ltd hasrecently advised on the design of a major new deep water container terminal at Sepangar Bay in eastern Malaysia. The study considered where the terminal needed to be located to minimise dredging and enable ships to manoeuvre safely in ...
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NewsEdmund Nuttall Secures Port of Ipswich Expansion
Associated British Ports '' (ABP) Port of Ipswich has taken a step closer to expanding its ro-ro facilities after accepting a £ 3.5m tender from Edmund Nuttall Ltd to construct a second ro-ro berth at the port''s West Bank Terminal .
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NewsBathside Bay Inquiry Opens
On the same day last month that the British Government rejected Associated British Ports '' plans for a new container terminal at Dibden Bay in Southampton, the Public Inquiry got underway into the proposed development of a new greenfield site deepwater container port at Bathside Bay in Harwich.
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NewsWindfarm Investigation Completed
A geotechnical survey in the Thames Estuary has been conducted by Fugro Engineering Services (FES) to collect data to be used in the final foundation design for the monopiles at the base of each of 30 turbines which will comprise the Kentish Flats windfarm.
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NewsBusy Days at Dublin Port
The largest container ship ever to be handled in an Irish port called at Marine Terminals in Dublin Port last month after the facility had received a 23m make-over. The 2,450 teu MSC Peggy , at 208m LOA and drawing 9m, was comfortably accommodated at Marine Terminals Limited ''s(MTL) 570m ...
