Ports & Harbours – Page 82
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Flood Scheme to Cost €35m
Work on a 35m flood relief scheme for Clonmel in Ireland will start early next year, the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Mr Tom Parlon said recently during a visit to the town.
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£100m Marina Plans for Yarmouth
Plans for a marina at Yarmouth in the UK which could cost as much as £ 100m could be submitted to the borough council in February of 2005.
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NewsCostain Completes Work at Felixstowe
The Port of Felixstowe in the UK has celebrated the official opening of a 270m extension to its Trinity Terminal , known as Trinity III 2 , which was built by Costain Marine .
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NewsNew Standard for Ro-ro Linkspans
As briefly highlighted in the October issue of MJ , a new code for the design of ro-ro ramps, linkspans and walkways - British Standard 6349 Part 8 - is due to be published early next year, enabling ro-ro infrastructure to be planned, designed and built to an acceptable common ...
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NewsAutomated Mooring System for Dover
The Port of Dover in the UK is to be the first European port to install an automated mooring system using vacuum technology developed by Mooring Systems Limited (MSL), following the signing earlier this year of a European licensing agreement between MSL and Cavotec Group Holdings NV in the Netherlands.
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NewsIraqi Ports Obstructed by Wrecks, says UNDP
Hundreds of sunken ships ranging from large freighters and tankers to small tugs and dhows are blocking access to Iraq''s principal seaports and threatening the marine environment of the northern Persian Gulf, according to a detailed report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) which was released in early October.
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Seacore Wins More Windfarm Work
Seacore in the UK has been awarded a contract by the Danish power utility company, Energi E2 , to erect an 80m high meteorological mast for the London Array Offshore Wind Farm project in the Thames Estuary.
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NewsRoSafe Ups the Standard
Posford Haskoning and Bosch Rexroth have revealed details of a new safety device for ferry linkspans that they have developed. The new device, named RoSafe , is a secondary system that works independently of the operating mechanism that moves a linkspan or walkway into position. It acts as an independent ...
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Standards for Ro-ro Linkspans Agreed
A new design code is being drafted for the design of rollon- roll-off ramps, linkspans and walkways, and a meeting organised by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in the UK recently has reviewed a draft addition to the suite of standards in British Standard 6349 , the Maritime Code ...
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Turbidity Software Will Help Predict Sediment Release
The Dutch dredging industry, through the Stichting Speurwerk Baggertechniek (SSB) and the Rijkswaterstaat , has commissioned new research to produce a software package for use by stakeholders in the aggregate production process, including regulators and the industry, the aim being to improve the ability to predict sediment release during dredging.
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Go Ahead for Dunmore East Harbour
Kirk McClure Morton ''s marine engineering department in Northern Ireland has been awarded a contract to carry out a nine month feasibility study into an upgrade for the Port of Dunmore East in County Waterford.
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NewsHalcrow to Advise on New Brunei Port
Halcrow in the UK has signed an agreement with the Brunei Economic Development Board (BEDB) to provide advisory services for the construction of the new Pulau Muara Besar port in Brunei.
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Cromarty Firth Port Authority Reveals Vision for the Future
A long term vision for Scotland''s Cromarty Firth, which sees the centre of gravity of port infrastructure moving closer to the mouth of the firth, has been revealed today by the Cromarty Firth Port Authority (CFPA).
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NewsDrill Time for Kent Sea Defences
Mackley Construction , a key supply chain member for the UK Environment Agency ''s National Framework Contractor Van Oord UK Ltd , is making substantial environmental, time and cost savings with the innovative first time use of two American E-Z Drill pedestrian controlled drill rigs, on a major sea defence ...
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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.
