Ports & Harbours – Page 87
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Timber Research for Coastal and Fluvial Engineering
Timber has traditionally been used for the construction of a wide variety of coastal and fluvial structures including groynes, jetties, lock gates and river bank protection throughout the UK.
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NewsAccropodes Provide Solution for Scarborough Coast Protection Works
Edmund Nuttall Limited is approaching the mid-point of a £ 25.7m, 22 month coast protection project awarded to it by client Scarborough Borough Council (with DEFRA providing the major part of the funding).
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Compensation Land Earmarked for Bathside Bay Development
As part of its plans to develop a modern container terminal at Bathside Bay, Hutchison Ports (UK) Limited, owner of Harwich International Port, is proposing to create compensatory intertidal mudflat through alterations to the positions of sea walls.
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Civic Work at Muck and Rum
The Highland Council in Scotland in the UK is taking immediate steps to ensure that work is completed as quickly as possible on new berthing facilities at the Small Isles of Muck and Rum.
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NewsDeep Water Jetty for New Orkney Ferry Service
A new deep water jetty for the ro-ro ferries - the Hjaltland and Hrossey - has achieved ''minimum berthing status'' at Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands, and is on course for completion next year, at which time it will also begin to be used by the large number of cruise ...
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Three-year Contract Will Monitor Stability of Dubai Coastline
The EmuDome Joint Venture - a joint venture is between Emu Ltd in the UK and Dome International, headquartered in Abu Dhabi - has been awarded a three-year contract to monitor the stability of the entire coastline of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
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NewsMajor Re-development Efforts Planned at Penzance and Newlyn
Preliminary details of a new 200 berth marina intended to be built as part of a larger development at Penzance Harbour have been unveiled by the Penwith District Council in Cornwall, along with details of a proposed development at nearby Newlyn harbour.
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NewsGareloch Expands Fleet with Multi-Role 'Laura M'
Scottish marine plant operator Gareloch Support Services (Plant) Ltd has taken delivery of a new MRV 20 multi-role vessel built by Halmatic at their Portchester yard. The Laura M becomes Gareloch''s flagship vessel, complementing an existing MRV 15 and a 10m Damen Multi-Cat.
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NewsIt's All Go for New Name MarineCo
Mid-Lothian, Scotland based Environmental Engineering has changed the name for the marine section of their business to MarineCo UK Ltd. The move follows feedback from participation in their first ever exhibition this summer, seawork2002 in Southampton.
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NewsDew Piles It On for Rosyth Ro-Ro Port
The Port of Rosyth already had much of the required infrastructure in place when it received the go-ahead early this year to become Scotland''s first ferry link to mainland Europe via a Superfast ro-ro service to Zeebrugge.
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NewsMilford Haven Goes Green with Plastic Timber
The Milford Haven Port Authority in the UK has demonstrated its commitment to conservation by using fender pilings made of recycled plastic in place of rain forest hardwood. During a £ 130,000 planned maintenance of their pilot jetty, the Authority and their consultants from the Babtie Group opted for fender ...
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NewsEA to Enlarge Lydney Docks Marina
The Environment Agency (EA) in the UK, which is planning a major regeneration effort at Lydney Docks near Gloucester, has increased the size of the marina it is planning to build to help pay for the project, and says it anticipates building a facility with 80-90 berths initially, in phase ...
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NewsExpanded Ostuferhafen is Full of Eastern Promise
The German Baltic Port of Kiel has inaugurated an expanded Ostuferhafen complex after two and a half years of construction which has finally obliterated a WWII submarine bunker that threatened to strangle port expansion.
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New Canal Boat Marina Planned in British Midlands
Preliminary details of a new canal boat marina at the junction of the Trent and Mersey and Shropshire Union canals with moorings for up to 150 boats have been released by PB Developments of Knutsford, Cheshire, in the UK.
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Seacore Secures North Hoyle Wind Farm Contract
Cornwall UK based Seacore Ltd has won a major contract worth in excess of £ 5m to install 30 large diameter monopile foundations in the seabed and design, build and install a 50m high, fully instrumented monopile supported meteorological mast for the 60MW North Hoyle offshore windfarm.
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NewsHarbour Construction Keeps Terramare Busy
Terramare, the Finnish marine construction firm, reports that it is actively engaged in the construction of a harbour for SCA Graphic Sundswall AB, a Swedish pulp and paper mill company located in the west coast of Sweden.
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NewsImpounded Harbour Creates New Marina in South Wales
Dean & Dyball Construction in the UK has completed construction of a new marina at Burry Port Harbour in South Wales.
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NewsGallows Point Marina Gets Welsh Assembly Approval
The Welsh Assembly has approved an £ 8m project to develop a new marina at Beaumaris on the island of Anglesey at the eastern end of the Menai Strait, some five years after the project was first proposed and two years after it became the subject of a Public Enquiry.
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Morrison Construction at Work on Weirs
Techniques usually used on the seabed are being applied by British Waterways Contractor Morrison Construction to repair a historic weir on the River Severn.
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Alderney Breakwater Project nears Resolution
The future of the Alderney breakwater - which protects Bray Harbour on Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands - may soon become clearer, and restoration work could commence at the start of next year.
