Ports & Harbours – Page 84
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NewsAggregates Researchers Take to the SandPit
A 17-strong consortium of experts at well known universities'' research organisations is now approximately 12 months into a major EU-funded modelling programme to assess the effects of offshore dredging on coastlines Demand for North Sea sand is likely to increase in coming decades, for use as beach and sand dune ...
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Qatar to Build a New Airport on Reclaimed Land
Qatar is set to build a new airport which will be sited partly on land reclaimed from the sea, at a cost of US$2 billion, according to an announcement made by Qatar Airways earlier this week.
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EA Celebrates Award for Littlestone Sea Defence Scheme
The Environment Agency in the UK says a major sea defence scheme it executed on the Kent coast - the Littlestone sea defence scheme - has won a major environmental engineering award.
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NewsHydrodemolition Speeds Panama Canal Lock Repairs
Conjet hydrodemolition equipment is playing a key role in removing concrete and assisting with the replacement of the Panama Canal''s special tow track rail system. The track is used by powerful electric rack and pinion drive locomotives to assist in towing and guiding ships through the canal''s three sets of ...
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NewsAberdeen Examines Energy Futures Centre
The City of Aberdeen has signalled its determination to remain ''Europe''s Energy Capital'' after the offshore oil and gas industry has peaked by announcing a detailed feasibility study into the building of a flagship Energy Futures Centre, possibly also encompassing an offshore wind farm.
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NewsMore Merger Among Dutch Dredging Majors
Three of what were the dredging industry''s Big Six companies only recently, will now operate as one, following the sale of a majority stake in Ballast Ham Dredging to its Dutch rival, the family owned dredging, offshore and marine construction Van Oord Group.
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NewsDubai Coastal Monitoring Website
As part of its Coastal Zone Monitoring Programme, the Marine Works Unit of the Dubai Municipality has set up a website www.dubaicoast.org which enables viewers to watch near real-time video of wave conditions along the Jumeirah coastline.
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NewsUtility Majors in Offshore Manoeuvres
Major British utility companies have moved to join the march towards offshore renewable energy with the Centrica Group, which owns British Gas, announcing plans to build a £ 100m wind farm in the Irish Sea and Powergen Renewables buying the rights to develop a £ 200m wind farm off the ...
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NewsGlasgow Canal Link Gets the 'Green Light'
A thriving canal quarter in Glasgow could soon become a reality following the announcement at the World Canals Conference that a £ 5.6m regeneration project, restoring the canal link between two of the city''s most historic canal side sites, will soon get under way.
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NewsHabitat Agreement Paves Way for Port Construction
Traditionally adversarial relationships between environmentalists and port developers have been reversed by a pioneering agreement between Associated British Ports and leading UK conservation organisations which will help to safeguard the future of the Humber Estuary as one of Britain''s key habitats for migrating birds.
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NewsMowlem Feasts On Ferry Berth Construction
New UK ferry terminals built by Mowlem Marine have opened recently at Holyhead and Scrabster Harbour , Caithness, Scotland.
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NewsDubai Double for Dutch Dredgers
The phenomenal sold-out success of Jumeirah Palm Island off the coast of Dubai has led to a second major land reclamation project for the Netherlands'' Van Oord ACZ .The dredging and marine contractors, in co-operation with another major Dutch dredging group, Ballast Ham Dredging , have now landed a 200m ...
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NewsRiaRemediation Is Aviles' Salvation
An environmental clean-up operation in the old heavily industrialised Asturias region of Spain is turning a contaminated sedimentation basin of a river mouth into an inviting urban green space for the coastal town of Aviles.
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NewsLunar Technology Aids Wind Farm Construction
The first of 30 turbines was fitted at the UK''s newest offshore windfarm at North Hoyle , 8 to 11 km, off the coast of Wales, on 19 August. The site is set to generate 60MW of power, enough to run 50,000 homes, when it becomes operational later this year.
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Pontoon Installation Contract Awarded
A contract to supply and install pontoon systems at Kirkwall and Stromness marinas in the Orkney Islands was awarded at the end of June.
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United Kingdom Embarks on Maintenance Dredging Initiative
The British Marine Federation (BMF) and ports bodies in the UK have come together to represent the interests of marinas and ports in the UK whose ability to conduct maintenance dredging is being adversely affected by the Habitats Directive .
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ABPmer Commissioned to Undertake Dredging Field Studies at Fleetwood
ABPmer in the UK has been commissioned by ABPFleetwood to undertake field assessment and modelling studies to investigate the most cost effective method of undertaking maintenance dredging of the ro-ro berth and approach channel at Fleetwood.
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Interbeton Awarded Contract to Build Breakwater in Cameroon
Interbeton - part of the Royal BAM Group in the Netherlands - has been awarded a contract for the design and construction of a breakwater for Limbe shipyard in Cameroon, West Africa. The contract is valued at around ? 27m, and the client is Chantier Naval et Industriel du Cameroun ...
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NewsChallenging Pile Remediation Job for Seacore
Gweek, Cornwall-based Seacore has completed a challenging pile remediation project on behalf of BP Norway for a new four-legged water injection jacket standing in 76m of water in the Valhall Field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.
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MoU Signed for Transhipment Hub at Scapa Flow
The next stage in a project to construct the Scapa Flow Container Transhipment Port was initiated in early July, when a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Orkney Islands Council and International Container Hubs Limited (ICHL) was concluded.
