Ports & Harbours – Page 76
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NewsLandslide Investigation on Isle of Wight
Coastal landslides can cause considerable damage to roads, buildings and underground services. From the perspective of the Isle of Wight Council, its most valuable assets are coastal defences and an extensive network of important highways and the retaining walls which support them.
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NewsMulti-Purpose Pontoons at Seawork
Making their debut at Seawork 2006 will be EasyFloat Pontoons, an innovative design of lightweight modular floating pontoons which were introduced to the UK market last year by Crystal 32 Ltd.
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NewsNew Linkspans Expand Ports' Capacity
A triple berth ro-ro linkspan designed, built and installed by MacGregor is central to a new river terminal development which opened last month at the ABP Port of Immingham in the UK.
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EMSAGG's Conference Reels-in the Experts
The Construction Industry Research & Information Association (CIRIA) in the UK published an overview of its recent European Marine Sand and Gravel Group (EMSAGG) conference, which was the second such conference.
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NewsPort of Salalah Goes for MoorMaster
The Port of Salalah and Mooring Systems Limited''s licence holder Cavotec Group Holdings (CGH) have concluded a deal for four new MoorMaster 600 (MM600) automated mooring units. The equipment is due to be installed by the end of this month.
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Ghana Gets Belgian Loan to Restore Harbour
The Belgian government is to provide 6.3m under a concessionary loan agreement to Ghana to undertake restoration of a fishing harbour and lagoon in the central region.
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Support for Scotland's Largest Flood Prevention Scheme
Halcrow in the UK has been given the green light to proceed to the detailed design and procurement stage on a £ 50m flood prevention scheme for the White Cart River in Glasgow.
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Delft Hydraulics Testing Dune Revetments
The Dutch Directorate for Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat) has commissioned WL Delft Hydraulics to investigate the behaviour of ''hard'' elements (such as dune foot revetments or boulevards) in sandy dunes.
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NewsNew Mussel Harbour for Warrenpoint
Dawson WAM, the river and marine engineers, have completed the construction of a new mussel harbour and berth development at Warrenpoint in Northern Ireland at a cost of £ 2.6m for the Warrenpoint Harbour Authority which has enabled the bed of the town dock to be lowered in excess of ...
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£5m Kickstarts Barrow Masterplan
The first step of a comprehensive masterplan to transform Barrow in the UK has been given the green light with an investment of over £ 5m from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA).
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NewsGeosynthetic Liner Enables Austrian River Diversion
A river diversion project in Austria which has released an additional six hectares of land on which to build a new hospital was made possible by a self-sealing geosynthetic clay liner.
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NewsInvestment for 'Fast Jets' in Boulogne
The Boulogne Chamber of Commerce and Industry has announced a 20m investment in a new ro-ro berth which is due to go into service in 2007.
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NewsVenice Flood Barrier Works Underway
Some 40 years after an abnormal high tide flooded the city and made 5,000 people homeless, the massive marine construction project to protect Venice in Italy is now underway. The Modello Sperimentale Elettromeccanico (MOSE) project involves a system of moveable, automatically operated dikes being placed at the entrance of the ...
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NewsNo Slip-Ups at Seawork
Visitors to Godmanchester''s inland waterways on the River Ouse can look forward to using four new public mooring pontoons this year. Operated by the UK Environment Agency, the existing mooring pontoons were ageing wooden constructions which were a potential safety hazard for users, especially in wet conditions.
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NewsDean and Dyball to Develop Woolston Riverside
Another milestone in the transformation of the Woolston Riverside site in Southampton in the UK was reached last month with the announcement that the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) has chosen Dean and Dyball Developments as its preferred commercial development partner for the site.
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New Funding for Irish Harbours
Ireland''s Marine Minister, Pat the Cope Gallagher, has announced that he has approved the allocation of funding for a number of port infrastructure projects.
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NewsLong Term Solution for East Head Sought
The future of Chichester Harbour, the largest purely recreational harbour in the UK in terms of its size, number of vessels and range of boating activity could be in doubt if a long term plan is not put in place to prevent continued erosion of the feature known as East ...
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NewsFelixstowe South Port Reconfiguration Approved
At the end of last month UK Transport Minister Derek Twigg announced that he has approved the proposals for a new container terminal at Felixstowe South. The proposals by Hutchison Ports involve the reconfiguration of the Port''s original Dock Basin, an area previously used by P& O North Sea Ferries, ...
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NewsSoft Soils Site Investigation
When completed, Jamaica''s 234km Highway 2000 (H2000) toll road will link towns on the southern coast to the capital Kingston, with further branches to coastal resorts in the North, including Montego Bay. The majority of the H2000 roads will be constructed on weathered rock deposits. The toll road will be ...
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NewsLargest Sea Jetty for Port of Rotterdam
Construction work started earlier this month on what will be the largest sea jetty in the Port of Rotterdam.
