Ports & Harbours – Page 78
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NewsGothenburg's Monopile Challenge Met
Specialist UK marine contractor Seacore has successfully used a combination of reverse circulation drilling and vibratory pile driving techniques, in conjunction with novel and versatile pile handling equipment, to install, several weeks ahead of programme, tubular steel monopiles in extremely variable sea bed conditions along the main access channels to ...
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NewsFlood Strategy for Stour and Orwell Estuary
Halcrow has been commissioned by the UK''s Environment Agency to undertake a strategic review of the approach to the flood defence system within the Stour and Orwell Estuary complex on the Essex and Suffolk borders.
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NewsA Big HIT for Port of Immingham
Associated British Ports (ABP) has announced its largest ever investment in a terminal development, £ 44. m for a new coal facility at its Port of Immingham which will serve the UK''s electricity supply industry.
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Contract Awarded for Droylsden Canal Quarter
A contract to implement a large scale re-development project in the canal quarter in Droylsden, in the Tameside area of the UK, has been awarded to a Bangor-based company, Watkin Jones Ltd. Watkins Jones was selected as the preferred developer for the £ 100m, five-year East Manchester project in June. ...
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NewsCity of Helsinki Appeals Against Vuosaari Ruling
The City of Helsinki in Finland says it intends to take appeal against a recent ruling that has brought to a halt dredging work for the huge new Vuosaari port project.
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NewsMarina at Heart of Irish Coast Defence Project
Preliminary details of a new marina development in Ireland have been announced by Wicklow County Council . The County Council is the promoter for the project, and has recently invited tenders for design, build, financing and operation of a new marina as part of a larger mixed use waterfront development.
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New Jetty in the Braakmanhaven
Zeeland Seaports in the Netherlands, (which include the ports of Terneuzen and Vlissingen) says a new jetty is being constructed in the Braakmanhaven in the harbour at Terneuzen. The jetty is primarily intended for use by Oil Tanking Ghent .
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Lankelma Active With Vibro-coring Work
Lankelma Cone Penetration Testing Ltd of Oxenbridge in West Sussex in the UK has provided an update on a number of recent projects it has completed.
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NewsCostain Tames the Waves at West Bay
British contractor Costain has provided details of the work it is carrying out at West Bay in Dorset in the UK reconstructing the harbour in order to make it viable for use throughout the year.
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Mott MacDonald Appointed for New Port Development in Libya
Mott MacDonald, together with Libyan consultants National Consulting Bureau , have been appointed by the People''s Committee of Sirt Municipality in Libya to plan and design an expansion to the port at Sirte, a town located about 460 km east of Tripoli.
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NewsNew Plans Unveiled for 'Yorkshire Marina'
Revised plans for a £ 35 million Yorkshire Marina at Bridlington on the northeast coast of the UK were unveiled in July.
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NewsDeep Water Container Trans-shipment Terminal Planned in Ireland
Plans for a 350m investment to transform the River Shannon Estuary into one of Europe''s largest cargo hubs have been announced by state-owned Shannon Foynes Port Company (SFPC).
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NewsYacht Port Cartagena Makes Good Progress
The developers of a new super yacht marina which is under construction at Cartagena in Spain have started their marketing campaign to sell moorings at the facility, and say construction should be completed by the end of this year.
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Go-ahead Given for Marine Enterprise Park at Beaumaris
Anglesey Boat Company (ABC) in Beaumaris in Gwynned in Wales in the UK has obtained permission from Anglesey County Council for the re-development of an existing site at Beaumaris as a Marine Enterprise Park, but is still waiting for a dredging licence that will enable it to develop a new ...
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NewsSimon Says Humber Sea Terminal
The London based Simon Group demonstrated prescient vision when in the late 1990s it set in motion planning for a deepwater ro-ro terminal in the River Humber.
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Oil Leak Deflates UK Port Figures
The British Government''s Department for Transport , which has recently rejected a proposed new container terminal at the Port of Southampton and must pass judgement on three more large schemes, has published provisional National Statistics on freight traffic through UK ports in 2003.
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MAREC 2004 Sees Seas of Opportunity Offshore
Governments have pledged that new and renewable energies will play an ever growing role in their national energy mixes.
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NewsSupport for Tenby RNLI
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution ''s new boathouse and slipway at Tenby in South Wales will be supported on a forest of tubular steel monopiles specialist marine civil engineering contractors Seacore has installed into the seabed rock.
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Marine Energy Challenge Assessing Projects
The Carbon Trust has chosen consulting engineers Halcrow Group Ltd , in partnership with engineering specialists Peter Brotherhood Ltd and Abbott Risk Consulting Ltd , as one of the main engineering consortia to be involved in its new Marine Energy Challenge (MEC) programme.
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NewsMarine Hubbub in South West UK
The South West of England Regional Development Agency (RDA) has appointed a project manager to take forward proposals to develop the Wave Hub , a proposal to kick start the region''s sea power industry.
