Ports & Harbours – Page 53
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ABPmer to value the marine estate and UK seas - by David Foxwell
ABPmer and Economics for the Environment Consultancy (eftec) have been appointed by The Crown Estate to undertake a groundbreaking study to prepare an ecosystem services valuation for the Marine Estate and wider activities that occur within UK Seas.
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NewsGrimsby gets approval for dedicated Ro-Ro
Car trade through the Port of Grimsby looks set to prosper as Associated British Ports’ (ABP) planning application to develop a dedicated two berth Ro-Ro riverside terminal has been approved.
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NewsTEAM debuts boarding bridge in Baltimore
Barcelona based TEAM, which designs and manufactures Passenger Boarding Bridges (PBBs) for cruise and ferry terminals, has debuted its innovative KRONUS Passenger Boarding Bridge at the Port of Baltimore USA.
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NewsBreaking the barriers to cooperation
Clear communication and trust between clients and potential contractors can make or break major infrastructure projects.
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NewsTwo new boathouses floated for RNLI
Southampton UK based pontoon systems specialist Intermarine has just completed two new floating boathouses for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) at its lifeboat stations at Brighton and Burnham-on-Crouch.
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NewsAcclaim for EU funded engineering work
The transformation of the Western Quay at North Shields in the northeast of the UK has won a prestigious civil engineering award.
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NewsWork starts on London's super sewer
The Thames Tunnel project in London, now in the preliminary stages of site investigation, will be one of the biggest civil engineering projects in the UK.
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NewsAnniversary canal locks in water savings
For its 100 year anniversary in 2014, the Panama Canal Authority is modernizing and expanding the canal between the Atlantic and Pacific.
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NewsWaterhammer helps IHC pile into renewables
A new kind of pile driver has been developed for use at depths up to 3,000m and will be quite literally underpinning a number of offshore wind energy projects.
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NewsWismar ups clout with new facilities
The German Baltic port of Wismar has inaugurated a rebuilt berth for big ships and at the same time put rail track links to two other berths into operation to complete rail access to all of its 16 quayside facilities.
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NewsCuxport pushes location advantages
Another €200m is expected to be ploughed in to further expand the Cuxhaven deepwater facility’s already significant role as a multi-purpose logistics and offshore centre.
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UTEC Survey wins Port Hedland contact - by David Foxwell
Port Hedland Port Authority in Australia awarded UTEC Survey Australia Pty Ltd of Perth a contract to provide bathymetric survey services to the Port Authority''s channel and harbour capital dredging campaign. The survey work is being carried out offshore Port Hedland in North West Australia.
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Dublin Port Company renews attempt to obtain permission to reclaim land
Dublin Port Company has renewed its attempt to reclaim land from Dublin Bay to cope with a projected doubling of trade by 2040.
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NewsWarnings as Elbe deepening plans firm up
Freight forwarders in Germany’s biggest port, Hamburg, have joined a long line of maritime interests warning that if long planned deepening of the Elbe does not come soon, big container ships will move to rival ports.
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FoundOcean wins contract for Walney wind farm
FoundOcean has been awarded an offshore grouting contract for the Walney offshore windfarm (OWF) phase 2 substation installation. The installation is being undertaken by Volker Staal en Funderingen BV.
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ABPmer provides consultancy to Alderney Commission
ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) has been commissioned by the Alderney Commission for Renewable Energy (ACRE) to provide independent advice on the Environmental Statement relating to a current marine renewable energy development proposal in Alderney waters.
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Europeans win Gladstone Ports Corporation contract
Subsidiaries of Dutch dredging and marine contractor Van Oord and Dredging International in Belgium have been awarded a second contract for the Western Basin Main Works Dredging at the Port of Gladstone, Queensland, Australia.
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ABP to expand docks at Hull
Associated British Ports is reported to be planning a major expansion of facilities around Hull’s Alexandra Dock in anticipation of becoming a major hub for the offshore windfarm industry.
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Sand Motor information centre opens
Van Oord in the Netherlands reports that on 6 May an information centre for the ‘Sand Motor’ project was due to open in The Hague.
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NewsExcavator forms basis of backhoe dredger in Finland
Rotator Oy, Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) NV’s official dealer in Finland, has supplied Wasa Dredging Ltd with an EX2500-6 excavator as the base machine for a backhoe dredger for the project to deepen Mäntyluoto Pori harbour to 13.5m.
