Ports & Harbours – Page 43
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ARCADIS and EC Harris win Abu Dhabi project
ARCADIS, the international design, consulting, engineering and management services company based in The Netherlands, has announced that, together with its subsidiary EC Harris, it has won a three-year framework contract with Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) to provide business planning, master planning, design, engineering, programme management and training services.
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Ormen Lange field contract for Reef Subsea
Reef Subsea has been awarded contract by Norske Shell for dredging in the Ormen Lange field. The company will use its newly-built Scanmachine 4 excavator to carry out the work. The objective is to perform final seabed preparation for a pipelay project, with narrow tolerances (+/- 20cm) and a curved ...
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Pontoon under construction at Londonderry
Londonderry Port Harbour Master has announced that the barge Aoife recently started work on a new marine events pontoon’ in the vicinity of Queens Quay.
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NewsThames being made ready for Jubilee Pageant
Port of London Authority (PLA) crews are laying over three miles of mooring chains for vessels taking part in the Thames river pageant, which takes place on 3 June to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
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NewsBig berthing at Isle of Grain jetties
As vessel sizes steadily increase, so too do the pressures exerted on port infrastructure.
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NewsKiel completes Norwegenkai expansion works
Work on extending operational areas at the Port of Kiel’s Norwegenkai Terminal has now been completed.
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NewsAberdeen Harbour’s phase two works underway
The first phase of a multi-million pound redevelopment project of Aberdeen Harbour’s Torry Quay has been completed.
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NewsPort of Poole planning underway
Ramboll has secured the key advisory role to the Poole Harbour Commissioners to help them finalise their long term development masterplan for the Port of Poole UK.
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NewsSite investigations set scene for FRC project
Independent marine plant and wind farm support vessel operator Fastnet Shipping Limited has completed a second successful jack-up barge and marine plant deployment on the GB£1.65bn Forth Replacement Crossing (FRC) project.
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NewsIllegal dredging costs director dearly
The director of a company contracted to carry out work on the development of a marina in Falmouth docks was sentenced at Truro Crown Court recently.
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NewsNew wetland to be created in Somerset
Planning permission has been granted to create one of the UK’s largest areas of new wildlife habitat on the Steart Peninsula in Somerset.
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Designers for Milford Haven Dock Lock
Engineering firm Atkins has been chosen to design the new £5m Milford Haven Dock Lock in Pembrokeshire.
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NewsMEDCO dredging contract for ‘New Port Project’
MEDCO (Middle East Dredging Company QSC) has been awarded a contract to dredge the approach channel for the ‘New Port Project’ in Qatar for the account of the New Port Project Steering Committee, under the Government of the State of Qatar.
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Habitat replenishment on Lymington River
Work started recently on a £74,000 habitat replenishment research project on the Lymington River in the UK.
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NewsNew pontoon for Gravesend Town Pier
A new pontoon and brow in which Opus International Consultants provided the engineering design, has been successfully installed off Town Pier at Gravesend in Kent UK.
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NewsDredging to help Hamburg maintain box share
Hamburg, Germany’s largest port, handled 132.2m tonnes of cargo in 2011, an increase of 9.1% compared with 2010, and is expected to gain additional benefits from a forthcoming dredging campaign in the river Elbe.
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Belgian services for offshore jetty
Belgian company GEOXYZ recently completed a job in the UK which saw it provide precise positioning services for the piles for a new offshore jetty.
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Fugro Seacore signs for met mast
Fugro Seacore has signed a contract relating to the design, build and installation of an offshore met mast to record and monitor site conditions on the proposed Rampion Offshore Wind Farm site in the English Channel, 13km off the coast of Sussex, UK.
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NewsEnhancements will reduce waiting time
The Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment in The Netherlands has announced that it is expanding the Maasgeul in order to reduce waiting times for ships entering the Port of Rotterdam.
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NewsMaasvlakte beach making progress
The first part of the new beach along the Maasvlakte 2 container terminal in The Netherlands will be ready for use in May 2012. The rest of the beach will be accessible from November 2012.
