Ports & Harbours – Page 66
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Laing O'Rourke wins London Gateway project
Laing O' Rourke has beaten two rival bidders to win the first package of work for the £ 1.5bn London Gateway for client DP World. The job will involve building a deepsea port in the Thames Estuary for DP World.
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NewsTTS Builds Key Port Structures
TTS Port Equipment is building a new passenger gangway as part of the ambitious new development at Port of Risavika in Stavanger, Norway. The port has acquired 400,000m2 of land for development, including a new ferry terminal for vessels with passenger and rolling cargo, a container terminal and an LNG ...
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NewsHutchison to Develop Plan for Irish Port
Bremore Ireland Port Ltd, the joint venture between Drogheda Port Company and Castle Market Holdings Ltd, has announced that it plans to develop a Port Master Plan with Hutchison Westports Ltd for the new € 300m deepwater port at Bremore in north County Dublin.
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Atkins Selected for New Chinese Port
Atkins has been selected to design a major new container port in China. The project is at Mei Shan Island, about 25 km northeast of Ningbo and will be potentially one of the most important bonded container ports in China. A manufacturing zone will also feature, as well as business, ...
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NewsMaltese Project Gets Go-Ahead
Malta' s House of Representatives has unanimously approved a motion to allow an extension of Malta Freeport through land reclamation. The motion also makes possible an extension of the lease of the facility to French group CMA CGM by 35 years to 65 years.
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Expansion Plan for Cape Town Unveiled
Cape Town, South Africa' s second largest port, has launched a US$613m expansion project to increase terminal handling capacity and improve port infrastructure. The move comes after Cape Town posted a 13% increase in volume last year.
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NewsSeaGen Installation Set for Strangford Lough
New plans to install the word’ s first commercial scale tidal energy system in Northern Ireland’ s Strangford Lough were published earlier this month by tidal energy company, Marine Current Turbines Ltd.
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NewsModern Bridge Maintains Heritage Style
Faced with a failing jack-arch bridge over the Birmingham Canal in Smethwick, Sandwell Borough Council and their engineering consultants Jacobs UK Ltd. have opted for a radical solution.
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NewsArmourstone Users Meet in Norfolk
Registration is now open for the 15th annual Armourstone Users Group meeting, which takes place on 12 and 13 March in Norfolk UK.
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NewsBoskalis to Deepen Entrance Channel at Port of Melbourne
Royal Boskalis Westminster has confirmed that it has acquired a major contract for deepening the entrance channel to the Port of Melbourne in Australia. The project will be executed in an alliance with the Port of Melbourne Corporation, and the work will take some two years. The value of the ...
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NewsPassenger Bridge for Malaga Terminal
TEAM, which designs and manufactures of boarding bridges for cruise and ferry terminals, has signed a contract with Malaga Cruceros S.A. to deliver a boarding bridge this summer for the cruise terminal ‘ Estacion Maritima de Levante’ in the Port of Malaga. The terminal was inaugurated on 23 December 2007.
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NewsOlympic Games Marine Works Underway
Poole UK based Jenkins Marine is currently working towards helping Britain achieving it’ s Olympic dream. Work is underway in Portland, Dorset, in preparation for the sailing events associated with the Games.
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NewsVan Oord Completes The World
Dutch Dredging and marine contractor Van Oord has completed the prestigious land reclamation project The World in the emirate of Dubai. The World is a group of 300 artificial islands 4 km off the coast of Dubai that have been shaped in the form of the continents.
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NewsPort of Stralsund Completes ¢14m Expansion
The German Baltic seaport of Stralsund has completed a two year, € 14 expansion which has created three new berths and a new handling area in the Suedhafen district.
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Details of Damietta Container Facility Confirmed
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (ADB) have confirmed that they have approved a $150m loan to finance the Damietta container terminal situated on Egypt' s Mediterranean coast.
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Construction of Jeddah's new container terminal under way
The Saudi Trade and Export Development Company (Tusdeer) has announced that construction of its $443m Red Sea Gateway Terminal at Jeddah Islamic Port (JIP) was due to commence this month.
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EBRD provides loan to Ukrainian port
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to provide a € 26m guaranteed loan to Illichivsk Sea Commercial Port, one of the largest ports in Ukraine. The 15 year loan will help the port carry out a programme of modernisation that includes berth reconstruction, procurement of cargo handling ...
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NewsWell Planned Pontoon Replacement
Sub-Surface Engineering (SSE), a subsidiary of Opus International Consultants, has completed a new section of the wave break pontoon at Southampton’ s town quay.
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NewsKaiserschleuse Key to Bremerhaven Vehicle Future
Work proper has begun on what is being described as one of Europe’ s biggest current port engineering projects, the € 233m rebuilding and expansion of Bremerhaven’ s Kaiserschleuse sea lock to provide access for giant modern vehicle carriers.
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NewsNew Lock Gates for Sutton Harbour
Sub Marine Services Ltd (SMS) is providing the pontoon barge, crawler crane, support vessels and diving teams for a project underway to replace the inner and outer lock harbour gates at Sutton Harbour in Plymouth UK. Their plant is being used by Taylor & Sons Ltd, subcontractor to May Gurney ...
