Ports & Harbours – Page 67
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NewsSoil reinforcement keeps U-Boat afloat
The new site for a WWII German U-boat, U-534, planned as a new tourist attraction on Merseyside in the UK, was reinforced by the swift installation of Tensar’ s TriAx geogrid to prevent the exhibit from sinking into the Mersey mud. Adopting this solution also saved the considerable cost and ...
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NewsPerseverance pays off at Sheringham Shoal
Royal Haskoning has been appointed to provide environmental consultancy and support to Scira Offshore Energy in its construction of the ‘ Sheringham Shoal’ wind farm off the coast of Norfolk. A major infrastructure project, once complete the wind farm will cover an area of 35 km2 and is expected to ...
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NewsMarine works expand Albert Quay facilities
Total E& P UK has expanded its logistics support facility at Aberdeen Harbour in a move significantly improving efficiency, flexibility and safety of operations.
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NewsWorld's largest PBB for Harwich International
Barcelona based TEAM has been awarded a contract by Harwich International Port to design, manufacture and deliver a moveable and modern Passenger Boarding Bridge (PBB) of the SEDNA range. This PBB will be delivered by March 2009 at the cruise terminal building in the Port of Harwich, United Kingdom.
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NewsPort Said masterplan ready for investors
Dutch consultancy and engineering group DHV has completed its masterplan for a new port and industrial complex to be developed to the east of Port Said in Egypt.
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New harbour for Aran Islands completed
A new harbour costing € 14m has been completed on one of the Aran Islands, which lie in the mouth of Galway Bay on the west coast of Ireland.
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Building stable beaches - a new tool to help
HR Wallingford in the UK has developed a new software package, in ArcGIS, to help coastal engineers model artificial beaches. The Beach Design and Management Tool (BDMaT) allows engineers to apply the necessary parabolic equations computationally, saving much laborious number crunching and giving a visual display of the results. BDMaT ...
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NewsResearch facility will add to Xbloc effectiveness
Delta Marine Consultants (DMC) in The Netherlands has opened a 2-D wave flume facility equipped with a wave generator to assist with ongoing research work on the Xbloc, its popular armoured coastal defence unit. The flume facility is 25m long, 0.6m wide and 1m high and is capable of generating ...
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NewsCleveleys Coastal Protection Scheme wins BCI award
A £ 20m coastal protection and environmental enhancement scheme at Cleveleys seafront in the UK has won an award in the British Construction Industry (BCI) Awards. After being shortlisted in five different categories, the project picked up the Environmental Award for the way it ' transformed a dilapidated 1920s seafront ...
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Hollandsch Diep disposal site formally opened
The 2nd of October marked the official opening of the Hollandsch Diep dredged spoil disposal site in The Netherlands. The new facility, built on a section of river linked to the Rhine and the Meuse, will allow the Department of Public Works to store polluted dredged spoil from the lower ...
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NewsNew linkspan for Swedish port
TTS Port Equipment is about to start building a new linkspan for the port of Ystad in the south of Sweden, due for handover in March 2009. Ystad is a significant port in Sweden because of its ferry links to Poland and to the Danish island of Bornholm, which can' ...
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NewsDesign solution sought for detached breakwaters
Global warming will bring with it increased storminess, making stretches of the coastline more vulnerable to flooding and erosion. One way of protecting against this is to build detached breakwaters parallel to the shoreline. These reduce wave energy but they also cause altered flow conditions that may result in the ...
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NewsTimely opening for Bremerhaven's ¢500m terminal
The last container terminal extension on deep water in Bremerhaven, the CT 1V, was inaugurated the 12th of this month, a year earlier than planned and just in time to take the overspill from continuing dynamic container growth.
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DHI evaluates scour protection for wind turbines
DHI, Vestas, and Dong Energy have recently finished an evaluation of the scour protection scheme implemented at the Horns Rev I Wind Farm, which is located off the North Sea coast of Denmark. It is anticipated that the study will provide valuable information that can be used in the design ...
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Crown Estate increases turnover from aggregates dredging
The Crown Estate in the UK has announced a net revenue surplus of £ 211.4 million for the year ending 31st March 2008, a 5.6 per cent increase on last year. All of this money is paid to the Treasury for benefit of all UK taxpayers.
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Survey work for Qatar-Bahrain causeway gets under way
Survey work by a consortium of firms involved in construction of the $3 billion Qatar-Bahrain Causeway got under way recently.
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NewsXblocs installed on breakwater at IJmuiden
A total of 10 ''Eco-Xbloc'' armoured units have been placed on the southern breakwater at Ijmuiden in The Netherlands in order to evaluate their ability to play a role creating habitats for marine life. A number of different armoured units made from different materials and with different surface textures will ...
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NewsRotterdam starts construction at Maasvlakte 2
Construction was finally starting this month on the ¢ 1bn first phase of Rotterdam''s giant new North Sea Maasvlakte 2 complex, which will eventually house deepsea container, distribution and chemical industry facilities and ease the strain on the main port.
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NewsDoor opens for London Gateway construction
A £ 400m contract was signed last month which will launch the first stage of construction for DP World' s £ 1.5bn London Gateway container port and business park development at the former Shell Haven oil refinery site on the River Thames. The joint venture of Laing O' Rourke Infrastructure ...
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NewsFelixstowe port expansion begins
Work has started on expanding the capacity of the UK''s largest container port. The first stages of the Felixstowe South Reconfiguration (FSR) involved demolition of the old dock basin and buildings, demolition of the oil jetty and moving one of the ro-ro pontoons to the southern end of the Languard ...
