The Environment Agency is continuing work on the Badsey Brook flood risk management scheme that will reduce flood risk to properties along the Badsey and Bunches Brook in Broadway, Childswickham and Murcot and Aldington to the River Avon. As a condition of the planning application, detailed archaeol
Hamburg Port Authority yesterday released a video named “Creating Space for Container Giants – Last Pile Removed”. The video celebrates completion of the Vorhafen Harbor Basin Deepening project. According to the HPA, the deepening of the Vorhafen entry has improved ship access connection to the cent
Denbighshire County Council is due to start essential dredging works at Rhyl Harbor on Monday, 6 March. “For public safety reasons, a number of parking spaces, sections of the boardwalk and quay walls along the dock will be closed off during the work which is expected to take approximately three wee
Earlier this week, a delegation from Germany visited the construction site of the future ‘Container Terminal Odessa’, which is owned by Hamburg Port Consulting. State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure Mr. Rainer Bomba visited the construction site at the Quara
The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has just introduced the March 2017 edition of Terra et Aqua. Terra et Aqua is a quarterly publication of the International Association of Dredging Companies, emphasizing “maritime solutions for a changing world”, IADC said. It covers the fie
Pembrokeshire County Council’s planning committee has unanimously approved Conygar Stena Line’s application for first phase of the Fishguard Harbor Marina project. Conygar Stena Line is a joint venture between The Conygar Investment Co and Stena Line. This is the first of five phases of the developm
Following a detailed tender process, Forth Ports, owner of the Port of Dundee, has appointed Southbay Civil Engineering to deliver one of the largest investments in the history of the port. “Forth Ports is investing more than £10 million to create a new quayside with an industry-leading “heavy lift”
Royal IHC and DEME have signed a contract for the design, construction and delivery of the 44,180kW self-propelled cutter suction dredger (CSD) SPARTACUS. The concept and basic design for this 164 meters long mega cutter was done in close cooperation with DEME, Vuyk Engineering Rotterdam and IHC. CS
MRTS Terminal LLC is interested in dredging of the main navigation channel at the seaport of Arkhangelsk to deepen it from 7.5 m to 9.2 m, according to the company’s Deputy Director General on Development, Nikita Ananyin. During recently held Dredging Forum in Moscow, Nikita Ananyin said that MRTS i
In little over three weeks’ time, the second edition of Flood and Coast conference and exhibition will gather key stakeholders from the flood and coastal erosion risk management (FCRM) community in the UK. This year’s conference – sponsored by Van Oord, VBA, CH2M, Aecom, HR Wallingford, Mackley and
The first phase of the Arkhangelsk seaport’s deepwater area is to be put into operation by 2025, reported the press center of the Arkhangelsk Region Government. According to report, the Region Governor Igor Orlov, submitted a declaration for the creation of this facility to FSUE Rosmorport during th
Seán Canney, T.D. Minister of State for the Office of Public Works (OPW) and Flood Relief visited Portrane and Burrow Beach last week to see the impact that coastal erosion is having on the area. “I am delighted to have been invited to visit Portrane today to see at first hand the impact that coasta
