Ports & Harbours – Page 90
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NewsChallenge at Rumble Rock
The Northern Lighthouse Board is responsible for over 350 lights, buoys and navigation beacons in the north of the UK, stretching from Chicken Rock on the Isle of Man to Muckle Flugga in Northern Ireland.
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NewsWalcon Rides High on Marina Mania
Hampshire UK- based Walcon Marine enters 2002 with a healthy order book of marina construction projects maintaining the momentum of a successful 2001.
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Trinity Set for Inquiry Quartet
The precarious nature of obtaining planning consent for UK container terminals has been highlighted at Felixstowe, where the objections of a single individual look set to precipitate a public inquiry.
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NewsMultidisciplinary Site Investigation Close to Shipping Lanes
A multidisciplinary investigation has been completed by Foundation and Exploration Services Ltd (FES) at Harwich UK, where both land and marine drilling were required.
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NewsVersatile Plastic Pilings Are On The Up Down Under
Plastic Pilings Inc, the American manufacturer of marine piles and timber made of recycled plastic, has had a significant entry to the UK market via the Portsmouth Naval Base, where fender piles, wales and vertical fender planking have been selected by the Royal Navy to replace damaged hardwood fenders.
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NewsHigh-Point in Complex Port Design
Consulting engineers HighPoint Rendel are providing verification of difficult designs for a £ 250 million deepwater port with a container terminal and free trade zone to be built in the Dominican Republic.
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NewsABP Acquires Ailsa-Troon Shipyard
Associated British Ports (ABP) has acquired the former Ailsa-Troon shipyard at ABP' s Port of Troon under a 50-year lease. The 5.5ha site - which contains two dry docks, a pier, two warehouses and 14,600sqm of land available for development - has not been used since December 2000.
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NewsUK-based Fender Manufacturer in Parallel Motion
Fentek, the UK-based manufacturer of fenders for ports and harbours, says the popularity of its Parallel Motion fender system continues to grow. Recent installations and orders have put the total number of Parallel Motion Fenders commissioned or under construction to over 160 systems since the first units were installed in ...
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NewsInnovative Design Saves Road From Sea
Consulting engineers HighPoint Rendel in the UK has revealed details of an innovative project that it has undertaken on behalf of the Isle of Wight Council that will see a well known road on the Isle of Wight - the A3055 or the ' Military Road' protected from erosion by ...
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DHI Undertakes Environmental Studies for Causeway Project
Danish Hydraulic Institute (DHI) Water and Environmental and COWI A/S have been appointed as consultants for the next phase of the project to build the world' s longest fixed link, between Qatar and Bahrain in the Middle East.
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NewsNational Park Blow to Dibden Bay Plans
Associated British Ports' plans for a new container terminal at Dibden Bay have been dealt a blow after a key Government agency decided that the site should be included in the newly designated New Forest National Park.
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HR Wallingford Studies Coastal Depletion in Italy
HR Wallingford has been commissioned by Europrogetti and Finanza SpA to provide a regeneration programme for the dunes and the depleted beaches along the coastline between Salerno and Agropoli on the West Coast of Italy.
