Ports & Harbours – Page 74
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NewsLiverpool Lodges Application for Post-Panamax Box Terminal
The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company has lodged an application for a Harbour Revision Order to allow construction of a new post-Panamax container terminal at the Port of Liverpool, the UK''s third largest container port and the country''s major gateway for container trade with North America.
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NewsSeabed Investigation into Climate Change
Cornwall UK based Seacore has been awarded a £ 2.5m contract by the Natural Environmental Research Council on behalf of the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling . The company will perform a marine site investigation of the seabed at three offshore locations around the coast of the French Polynesian ...
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NewsMudflats Investigation Brings Relief
Kent County Council in the UK are proposing to build a road bridge across the mudflats of Milton Creek, a tidal waterway to the north of Sittingbourne that connects the town to the Swale and Thames Estuary. The bridge will carry the Sittingbourne Northern Relief Road at a point where ...
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NewsGPS Goes to Heart of Europe
Established UK tugs, dredgers, hopper barges and crane barges operator GPS Marine Contractors Ltd , based at Chatham Dock in Kent, is developing the business further and entering the marine contracting and services market in mainland Europe.
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NewsJoint Venture to Develop Rochester Riverside
Medway Council and the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) have awarded a civil engineering joint venture between Edmund Nuttall and Van Oord the main ? 44m contract to carry out infrastructure works at the Rochester Riverside regeneration site.
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NewsEnhanced Access to Brunel's Kingdom
The installation of new inner lock gates for the Bristol Port Company in the UK, following the earlier installation of similar outer lock gates, has given the port enhanced flexibility with equipment which is operational through its considerable full tidal range. The innovative gates were designed, constructed, installed, tested and ...
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NewsHRO for EastPort Great Yarmouth
EastPort Great Yarmouth , the £ 43.5m project to construct a new outer harbour to provide the shortest North Sea crossing from the UK to the Netherlands, has been granted a Harbour Revision Order from the Department for Transport (DfT). The development will incorporate one ro-ro berth (with scope for ...
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NewsFlexcrete Completes High Profile Marine Project in Qatar
Flexcrete , the British company that specialises in repairing and protecting concrete structures, has completed an important project in Doha in the Middle East. The project saw the company coat a sea wall spanning 500m in Doha, the capital of Qatar on the east coast of the peninsula in the ...
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New Marina Proposed at Rhyl
A new marina is being proposed at Kinmel Bay at Rhyl in North Wales UK on the site of a well known local landmark, a historic fun-fair.
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NewsLydney's Historic Docks Reopened After Renovation
July saw the re-opening of the historic docks at Lydney, near Gloucester in the UK after a two year project to restore and enhance the historic landmark on behalf of the Environment Agency (EA).
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Froude Modelling Hall Inaugurated at H R Wallingford
The Rt Hon the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH, Chancellor of the University of Oxford has officially opened the new Froude Modelling Hall at HR Wallingford in the UK.
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NewsShort Term Work is Completed at East Head
Short term work to rebuild The Hinge at East Head in the UK has been completed.
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Agreement on River Meuse Border Project
Van Oord Nederland has signed a joint venture contract to execute the River Meuse Border Project .
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Queen's Award Dropped on Rock Fall
Scottish specialists in underwater drilling and blasting, Rock Fall Company Ltd , has won this year''s Queen''s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category.
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News'Ghost Ships' Yard Tries to Catch the Wind
The UK Government''s Environment Agency as well as its statutory ecology adviser English Nature are both formally objecting to an application for a new waste management license from Able UK for its proposed £ 25m Teesside Environmental Reclamation and Recycling Centre (TERRC) at Seaton Port Graythorp.
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NewsBarrow Windfarm Works Underway
Marine Projects International Limited won the £ 20 million contract last month for the offshore construction phase of the Barrow Offshore Windfarm .The contract for Vestas Kellogg Brown & Root (VKBR) was won despite stiff competition from European rivals and includes the transportation of foundations from Belgium, operation of the ...
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NewsLand & Water to Unlock Waterways Freight Potential
Specialist contractor Land & Water Group has been appointed by British Waterways to play a major role in an £ 1.6 million initiative to revive commercial traffic on West London''s canals.
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Pontoon Project transforms Thames Terminal
UK marine engineers Houlder Limited have completed a residential pontoon contract at Wandsworth on London''s River Thames. Houlder have installed the mooring facility for river residents, providing quick access to central London.
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NewsJack-ups Conduct Wind Farm Investigations
Fugro Engineering Services (FES) and Alluvial Mining Ltd have been employed by Offshore Windpower Ltd to determine ground conditions at the Lynn and Inner Dowsing wind farm site off the Lincolnshire UK coast approximately 8 km east of Skegness.
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NewsICC Calls for Investment in Ports
As highlighted on page 97, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has issued a statement in which it says it is concerned about the inadequacy of infrastructure serving many ports worldwide, a problem which it believes is threatening the smooth flow of global trade, and has called on the industry ...
