Ports & Harbours – Page 55
-
News
Developer fined
The company behind a luxury yacht marina development in Cornwall in the UK has been ordered to pay more than £600,000 after lying about dredging toxic sediment and dumping it in an area of outstanding natural beauty.
-
News
Jan de Nul wins €1bn in contracts
Belgian dredging and marine civils giant Jan de Nul has secured more than €1bn worth of new projects.
-
NewsBuilding with Nature publication launched
Facts About Building with Nature, the latest publication from the International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC), is now available free of charge online or in print.
-
News
£10,000 boost for Whitby harbour
Whitby Harbour is to benefit from £10,000 worth of lifting equipment after the Marine Management Organisation agreed its application for a grant from the European Fisheries Fund (EFF).
-
News
Habitat creation scheme for Bristol
The Bristol Port Company has contracted ABPmer to lead a team that will design and deliver a habitat creation scheme on the Steart Peninsula.
-
NewsTyne contractor Sirius about your waste
Some 250,000 tons of waste material is needed to complete the infilling of one of the Tyne’s historic shipping docks in order to give the area much needed land for economic regeneration.
-
NewsHatston Pier will suit renewables to a T
The world’s first commercial wave and tidal leasing round has resulted in 10 Scottish sites being designated for development, so the region has begun to grow its support and service facilities.
-
NewsFirm foundations for Bristol
The Bristol Port Company has started the site investigation for the £600m deep sea container terminal in Avonmouth.
-
NewsApproval for Fehmarn Belt fixed link
The Danish parliament has selected the TEC immersed tunnel as the best solution for the fixed link between Denmark and Germany.
-
NewsAlgae in the way of port development
The UK’s Marine Management Organisation (MMO) announced last week that it is not allowing the application for the Port of Falmouth development initiative to proceed in its current form.
-
News
Dredging associations organise contract management event
Contracting Without Limits, to be held on 23 and 24 June 2011 in London UK will bring together the main players of construction projects.
-
News
ABPmer and Archipelago launch coastal adaptation communication service
ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) is working with Archipelago to provide visualisation and engagement tools to help people understand the meaning of coastal change and adaptation so that they can fully participate in the future planning of their coasts.
-
News
Van Oord installs rock to protect Brazilian pipeline
Dutch dredging and marine contractor Van Oord has completed a rock installation project on the Rio Negro pipeline crossing project in Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil. The client is the Brazilian oil and gas operator Petrobras.
-
News
Aberdeen Harbour to be dredged
Aberdeen Harbour is to spend £8.5m dredging its entrance to allow ships to enter more frequently during bad weather.
-
News
Kennet & Avon Canal dredged to help water voles
British Waterways is looking to the past to help preserve the future for one of the canals’ most loved but secretive species, the protected water vole.
-
News
Antwerp harbour celebrates completion of Scheldt dredging
Towards the end of December the last dredgers working on the Western Scheldt channel completed work and unloaded their final deposit of sand.
-
NewsBoskalis and Van Oord create ‘sand engine’ to reinforce Dutch coastline
A joint venture of Dutch dredging majors Royal Boskalis Westminster and Van Oord has been awarded a contract by the Directorate General for Public Works and Water Management to reinforce part of the coastline in the province of Zuid-Holland by creating a ‘sand engine.’
-
News
Extra time for the Marine Conservation Zone project
The Marine Conservation Zone project board in the UK has agreed to allow more time for the four regional MCZ projects to deliver their responsibilities.
-
NewsContract launches next phase of major developments at Lerwick Harbour
Lerwick Port Authority’s continuing development of the harbour is moving into the next phase following the award of a £4.6m contract to create a new berth and related improvements at Greenhead Base.
-
NewsOffshore wind drives Mukran expansion
The company behind Germany’s second commercial offshore wind power facility in the Baltic, EnBW Energie, has signed a deal for a support and components assembly base in the deepwater port of Mukran.
