Ports & Harbours – Page 52
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NewsNew Rostock facility ups ferry clout
The Port of Rostock says construction is on track “within a very tight and ambitious time frame” at its new €22m ferry Berth 54 due to open next spring to meet rising demand for ferry services with Denmark.
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NewsBristol Docks open after £12m revamp
The refurbished docks in Bristol were officially opened this summer, following Opus’ work on the scheme to ensure the future effective working of Bristol Docks and to reinforce the city’s flood defences.
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NewsFacts about early contractor involvement
The Hague based International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has released the latest in its popular series of Facts About executive summaries.
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Artificial island proposed for Turkmenistan
Dutch company Van Oord has proposed construction of an artificial island in the Caspian Sea near the resort of Avaz in Turkmenistan, as its area manager Johannes Hafkenscheid said in an interview with a local newspaper.
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Minor tsunami monitored off UK coast
A network of coastal tidal and wave monitoring stations maintained by EMU Limited recorded the progress of the waves caused by a minor tsunami along the south coast of the UK at the end of June.
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NewsFirst floating jetty for Lake Windermere
The first ever floating jetty project on England’s Lake Windermere has been completed by Falmouth based Marine Designs Ltd, part of the A&P Group.
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NewsCapacity expansion at strategic terminal
Hamburg based port and logistics group Buss has processed the first cargo ship at its newly acquired multi-purpose Orange Blue Terminal in the Dutch North Sea deepwater port of Eemshaven.
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NewsCountdown rolls for Germany’s JWP terminal
The final construction countdown has begun at the JadeWeser Port (JWP) container terminal in Wilhelmshaven, now due on stream in a year, but rail link development could be delayed.
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Boskalis acquires € 200m port contract
Royal Boskalis Westminster has won a contract for the construction of a new port terminal TX2 at Superporto do Açu in Brazil.
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Boskalis wins contract for seabed mining deal
Royal Boskalis Westminster in The Netherlands has been selected by Chatham Rock Phosphate Limited (CRP) to undertake the detailed design of its offshore rock phosphate nodule project at Chatham Rise.
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ABPMer helps visualise coastal changes
Visualisation work undertaken by ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) in association with Archipelago is being used to engage with local communities and visitors to the Dorset coast about coastal change.
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Grant funded harbour work gets underway
A significant grant from the European Fisheries Fund (EFF) is being used towards the regeneration of Southwold Harbour on the coast of Suffolk in the UK.
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Maasvlakte project on schedule
Construction of Maasvlakte 2, the massive expansion of the Port of Rotterdam, is proceeding according to schedule, says the port.
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Van Oord wins infield cable project
Dutch dredging and marine contractor Van Oord has been awarded a contract for the infield cabling and cable burial of the DanTysk offshore wind farm project 70km off Sylt, Germany.
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Dutch dredge for St Petersburg terminal
Van Oord in The Netherlands reports that the new Marine Facade passenger terminal on Vasilyevsky Island in St Petersburg, Russia is now up and running. The new passenger terminal will receive cruise ships and ferries.
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NewsDredging takes Port of Tyne supersize
A major dredging operation is underway at the Port of Tyne UK to deepen the river to accommodate even bigger ships at the Port’s multi-functional berth, Riverside Quay.
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First quay section at Maasvlakte 2 gets wet
In June the first 250m long deep sea quay wall section at the massive Maasvlakte 2 reclamation project in Port of Rotterdam in The Netherlands was dredged free of sand for the first time.
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Broads Authority wins funds for innovative dredging project
The Broads Authority in the UK has been awarded some £800,000 from the European Regional Development Fund to develop innovative dredging solutions for the management of the waterways.
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Mersey tidal power project unlikely to be funded
A tidal power scheme in the Mersey Estuary could deliver enough electricity to meet the average needs of over 200,000 homes but the high construction costs mean that it is unlikely to go ahead without a change in the way we value renewable energy and security of supply.
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NewsDHI helps maintain Danish fishing harbour
DHI Group in Denmark recently helped local fisherman at Hvide Sande harbour on Denmark’s western coast whose businesses were threatened by sand bars that were reducing the draught in the harbour.
