Ports & Harbours – Page 73
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NewsNew Terminal Will Ease Congestion
Europe''s biggest seaport, Rotterdam, has revealed plans for a second new container terminal with facilities for feeders and inland waterway vessels.
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NewsNew Terminal Boosts Rhine Intermodal Role
Vehicle handling and logistics firm E H Harms, part of Bremen''s BLG Logistics, has opened a car handling terminal in Europe''s biggest inland port, Duisburg, to boost the role of the Rhine in intermodal transport.
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NewsJenkins Expand Dredging Fleet
Following the acquisition of four vessels from Dean & Dyball Construction earlier this year, Poole UK based Jenkins Marine have further expanded their fleet to include the two 300m 3split hopper barges Needles and Nab.
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NewsWaterways Link Gets Outline Planning Permission
Outline planning permission has been approved for the first phase of a multi-million pound project that could ultimately see a new navigable waterway established, wich will link several cathedral cities in the UK and create hundreds of moorings for recreational craft.
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IWA Provides Funds for Hydraulics Research Project
The Inland Waterways Association (IWA) in the UK has offered a grant of £ 10,000 to British Waterways, towards the cost of a hydraulics research project on the effects of boats moving in confined channels.
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Lock Restoration Will Open Up Ireland's Waterways
The historic sea lock at Spencer Dock in Dublin is to be restored under a new project managed by Royal Haskoning.
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Masterplan for Barrow's Port Development Picks Up Speed
First announced in 2003, the overall Masterplan for developing the port area at Barrow in Cumbria includes 400 waterfront homes, offices, retail units, a 300-berth marina, powerboat racing course, water sports centre and innovation park. Now, work has started on the design of two of the other projects included in ...
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NewsMott MacDonald Wins Contract to Expand Montego Bay Cruise Terminal
The Port Authority of Jamaica has awarded Mott MacDonald, engineering and management consultant, a contract to help expand cruise terminal facilities at Montego Bay, Jamaica.
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NewsAnother New Platform for Combifloat
Rotterdam based Flexifloat Systems BV is building another C-7 Class Modular Self-elevating Platform after their previous newbuild was purchased out of the Combifloat fleet earlier this year by Huta Marine Works of Saudi Arabia.
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News'Manchester Bobber' Promises Wave Power
The University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Intellectual Property Ltd (UMIP), in partnership with Mowlem plc and Royal Haskoning , are developing an innovative and patented new wave energy device known as the Manchester Bobber . The device was showcased last month at the New & Renewable Energy ...
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NewsIMCA Takes a View on Offshore Renewables
The London based International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has prepared a position paper on offshore renewable energy to assist and inform its 270 members in 35 countries on the marine renewable energy market. Having examined the background and scale of developments using existing and planned wind farms in the UK, ...
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News'Matador 3' Lifts First Offshore Substation
The UK''s first offshore substation has been successfully installed at the Barrow Offshore Wind Farm in the Irish Sea. The substation transforms the power generated by the windfarm before it can be exported to the national grid and marks a crucial stage in the development of the 30 turbine facility, ...
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NewsWork Starts on Turner Contemporary
James Mallord William Turner was on board a Margate steamer to sketch the passage of HMSTemeraire as it was towed upriver by a smoke belching ''modern'' steam tug on 6 September 1838. The ''ship that saved Victory'' at the Battle of Trafalgar was on a last voyage to Beatson''s ship ...
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NewsTide Turns in Scotland
Renewable wave and tidal energy could provide up to 10% of Scotland''s electricity production and create around 7,000 new jobs under measures announced last month.
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NewsDMC Receives First European Order for Xbloc
Delta Marine Consultants (DMC) in Gouda in the Netherlands has granted the civil construction company Charles Brand Ltd a licence for the use of the Xbloc armour unit for the upgrading of the Port of Oriel at Clogherhead, Ireland.
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SIX Construct awarded contract in Cameroon
SIX Construct , the subsidiary of Belgium-based BESIX , has been awarded a contract by Cameroon Shipyard and Industrial Engineering Ltd for the design and construction of a 400m long multipurpose quaywall.
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NewsDutch Cabinet Agrees Rotterdam Development Project
The Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands has confirmed that the Dutch Cabinet recently reached a decision on a package of projects for the forthcoming Rotterdam Mainport Development Project (PMR).
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Mooring Basin Opens
The revitalisation of Scotland''s inland waterways has reached a major milestone with the formal opening of a new £ 1.2m mooring basin on the Forth & Clyde Canal. The mooring basin, which has been funded by Scottish Enterprise Lanarkshire and British Waterways, with support from North Lanarkshire Council, will help ...
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NewsBreakwater Beats the Weather at Holy Loch
Intermarine Ltd has just completed a race against time to design, supply and install a floating breakwater and moorings in the Holy Loch on the west coast of Scotland. The breakwater for client Seavision Ltd creates a large area of protected water for the continuing development of moorings over the ...
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NewsGrating's Great Strides in Workboat Safety
The Irish Sea Pioneer is a self propelled jack-up marine construction unit owned and operated by Halliburton inLiverpool Bay UK, providing offshore support services to BHP Billiton . The vessel''s raised cargo rail system is essential to operations but was creating a trip hazard to crew working on deck.
