Ports & Harbours – Page 82
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NewsMore Merger Among Dutch Dredging Majors
Three of what were the dredging industry''s Big Six companies only recently, will now operate as one, following the sale of a majority stake in Ballast Ham Dredging to its Dutch rival, the family owned dredging, offshore and marine construction Van Oord Group.
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NewsDubai Coastal Monitoring Website
As part of its Coastal Zone Monitoring Programme, the Marine Works Unit of the Dubai Municipality has set up a website www.dubaicoast.org which enables viewers to watch near real-time video of wave conditions along the Jumeirah coastline.
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NewsUtility Majors in Offshore Manoeuvres
Major British utility companies have moved to join the march towards offshore renewable energy with the Centrica Group, which owns British Gas, announcing plans to build a £ 100m wind farm in the Irish Sea and Powergen Renewables buying the rights to develop a £ 200m wind farm off the ...
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NewsGlasgow Canal Link Gets the 'Green Light'
A thriving canal quarter in Glasgow could soon become a reality following the announcement at the World Canals Conference that a £ 5.6m regeneration project, restoring the canal link between two of the city''s most historic canal side sites, will soon get under way.
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NewsHabitat Agreement Paves Way for Port Construction
Traditionally adversarial relationships between environmentalists and port developers have been reversed by a pioneering agreement between Associated British Ports and leading UK conservation organisations which will help to safeguard the future of the Humber Estuary as one of Britain''s key habitats for migrating birds.
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NewsMowlem Feasts On Ferry Berth Construction
New UK ferry terminals built by Mowlem Marine have opened recently at Holyhead and Scrabster Harbour , Caithness, Scotland.
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NewsDubai Double for Dutch Dredgers
The phenomenal sold-out success of Jumeirah Palm Island off the coast of Dubai has led to a second major land reclamation project for the Netherlands'' Van Oord ACZ .The dredging and marine contractors, in co-operation with another major Dutch dredging group, Ballast Ham Dredging , have now landed a 200m ...
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NewsRiaRemediation Is Aviles' Salvation
An environmental clean-up operation in the old heavily industrialised Asturias region of Spain is turning a contaminated sedimentation basin of a river mouth into an inviting urban green space for the coastal town of Aviles.
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NewsLunar Technology Aids Wind Farm Construction
The first of 30 turbines was fitted at the UK''s newest offshore windfarm at North Hoyle , 8 to 11 km, off the coast of Wales, on 19 August. The site is set to generate 60MW of power, enough to run 50,000 homes, when it becomes operational later this year.
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Pontoon Installation Contract Awarded
A contract to supply and install pontoon systems at Kirkwall and Stromness marinas in the Orkney Islands was awarded at the end of June.
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United Kingdom Embarks on Maintenance Dredging Initiative
The British Marine Federation (BMF) and ports bodies in the UK have come together to represent the interests of marinas and ports in the UK whose ability to conduct maintenance dredging is being adversely affected by the Habitats Directive .
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ABPmer Commissioned to Undertake Dredging Field Studies at Fleetwood
ABPmer in the UK has been commissioned by ABPFleetwood to undertake field assessment and modelling studies to investigate the most cost effective method of undertaking maintenance dredging of the ro-ro berth and approach channel at Fleetwood.
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Interbeton Awarded Contract to Build Breakwater in Cameroon
Interbeton - part of the Royal BAM Group in the Netherlands - has been awarded a contract for the design and construction of a breakwater for Limbe shipyard in Cameroon, West Africa. The contract is valued at around ? 27m, and the client is Chantier Naval et Industriel du Cameroun ...
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NewsChallenging Pile Remediation Job for Seacore
Gweek, Cornwall-based Seacore has completed a challenging pile remediation project on behalf of BP Norway for a new four-legged water injection jacket standing in 76m of water in the Valhall Field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.
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MoU Signed for Transhipment Hub at Scapa Flow
The next stage in a project to construct the Scapa Flow Container Transhipment Port was initiated in early July, when a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Orkney Islands Council and International Container Hubs Limited (ICHL) was concluded.
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NewsTransmarine Linkspan for British Forces in Kuwait
In late January, this year, the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) was confronted by a serious problem in the Port of Shuaiba, Kuwait, where there was an urgent requirement for a facility at the port to offload of large quantities of British military rolling cargo as part of the build-up ...
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NewsWalcon Secures Three Marina Contracts in Middle East
Walcon Marine in the UK has announced details of three new projects in the Middle East, in Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and Doha, in which it is now involved.
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NewsDunoon Pier to be Re-developed
Argyll & Bute Council in the UK has revealed more details of its intended re-development of Dunoon Pier and the marine infrastructure around the pier, a well known structure built during the Victorian era.
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NewsGas Pipeline Provides Challenging Job for Boskalis Offshore
Boskalis Offshore is making good progress with a challenging project that will see Singapore connected to the Indonesian island of Pulau Pemping by a new 26km gas pipeline known as the Pulau Pemping-Pulau Sakra gas line, which will transport gas from onshore fields on the island of Sumatra to Singapore.
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NewsEastPort Construction Funding Should in Place by Year End?
Funding for the construction of a major ro-ro terminal and new quays at the Port of Great Yarmouth in the UK, at £ 32m, one of the largest projects of its type in the UK, should be in place by the end of this year, says the East of England ...
