Ports & Harbours – Page 86
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NewsBeirut Breakwater Boosted by Core Penetrometer
The revival of war torn Beirut continues apace, with particularly high levels of activity along the waterfront.
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Imported Sand Needed to Protect Catalan Beaches?
Submerged breakwaters located just offshore are being proposed as one of a number of solutions for the high level of erosion that is taking place along many beaches in Spain.
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Bouygues Offshore Contracted to Build Container Terminal
Bouygues Offshore and Bouygues Travaux Publics (a subsidiary of Bouygues Construction) in France have signed a turnkey contract with Caucedo Investments Inc to build a container terminal in the Dominican Republic.
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NewsKlaipeda Harbour Project Approaches Completion
Danish marine civils contractor Per Aarsleff A/S is approaching completion of a major project at the Port of Klaipeda in Lithuania financed by the World Bank.
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NewsHSS Using Innovative Techniques at SCT
Southampton Container Terminals (SCT) has embarked on a five-month project to strengthen one of its four berths and further extend its capability to handle the world''s biggest container ships.
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Coastal Erosion Comes Under Scrutiny
A newly developed model for predicting coastal erosion came under the spotlight at a recent conference at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London.
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English Nature: No Change on Marine Conservation Areas
English Nature, the statutory body responsible for advising the UK government on the designation of marine Special Areas of Conservation (marine SACs) has confirmed that it does not intend to alter the way it designates the areas, even though a study it has recently completed indicates that other countries in ...
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News'Unsinkable' Replacement Pontoon Brings Wapping Great Success
With its 40 year old pontoon prone to leaking and sinking, London''s Metropolitan Police were in need of an ''unsinkable'' replacement at the Wapping Boat Yard on the river Thames.
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seawork Exhibitor Wins Groyne Innovation Award
Portsmouth UK-based Plasti Ltd, which will be exhibiting at seawork2002, has won a prestigious Government SMART Development Award to develop, construct and install a beach groyne using patented composite piles in combination with other sustainable materials.
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HR Wallingford Studies Coastal Defence Materials
HR Wallingford, the UK-based marine engineering consultants, has begun work on a project which, it is anticipated, will be of considerable interest to marine contractors, builders, and local authorities who are involved in sea defence or river protection works.
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NewsIJmuiden's Third Harbour Gets Ready to RoRo
The Third Harbour at the Dutch port of IJmuiden is nearing completion and is expecting to receive business by the end of this year. Despite problems such as weak surface layers that were discovered only after digging had begun and the need to relocate a protected species of sand lizard, ...
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NewsTitan Surveys Possible Boxport Development
A trend has developed in the Americas to place container trans-shipment ports off the eastern seaboard of the goods-hungry USA. North-south trade along the Atlantic coast and east-west traffic with Europe utilise these facilities.
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NewsDutch JV Begins Installation Work on Offshore Wind Turbine Project
Two Dutch contractors - Mammoet and Van Oord ACZ - have revealed details of the jack-up barge they have built and started to use as a platform to serve the rapidly growing market in Europe for offshore wind turbine installation work.
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Droitwich Junction locks restored
The Inland Waterways Association (IWA) and Droitwich Canals Trust (DCT) have announced the completion of the restoration of Hanbury Locks on the Droitwich Junction Canal. The re-opening ceremony took place on 31 May when the first boat to pass through the Locks was steered by Tom Mayo who is thought ...
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NewsSA Port Development Project Planned
Coega Industrial Development Zone and Ngqura Port in the Eastern Cape in South Africa - which covers an area of 12,000ha of land adjacent to a proposed deep-water port providing serviced industrial sites with purpose-built infrastructure - have released preliminary details of a number of marine civils contracts which will ...
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NewsSelf-Closing Quayside Flood Barrier
Working in collaboration with a consortium of companies, Holland''s Van den Noort Innovations has designed a self-closing flood barrier, the Self-Closing Waterdam (SCW).
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Integrated Survey for Subsea Pipeline
Fugro Survey (Middle East) Ltd of Abu Dhabi has been awarded a $5 million contract by Dolphin Energy Ltd to conduct onshore and offshore surveys and environmental impact assessments.
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News21st Century Restoration of 19th Century Boatlift
One of Britain''s most magnificent examples of Victorian engineering, the Anderton Boat Lift in Cheshire has been formally reopened following restoration which features a modern electrohydraulic system designed and installed by Bosch Rexroth.
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NewsDredging Works Make a HIT on Humberside
In August of last year construction work began on the latest Associated British Ports (ABP) development at Humber International Terminal Phase II, more simply known as HIT 2.
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NewsTie Rod Protection for Scottish Ferry Berth
Mowlem Marine is constructing a new berth for Scrabster Harbour Trust, Thurso Bay, for ferries to Stromness in the Orkney Islands. Consulting engineers are the Babtie Group.
