ESPO has just announced that Niedersachsen Ports, Germany, is once again being certified through the EcoPorts’ environmental management standard (PERS). With a total of 15 port locations, Niedersachsen Ports is the largest operator of public seaports in Germany. A committed member of the EcoPorts Ne
The massive development of a new container handling port at Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork, is nearing its completion. “This year, we look forward to the opening of our new state of the art Cork Container Terminal,” Port of Cork Company said in their latest announcement. Work on the €86m project – the bigges
In exactly two weeks the world’s largest sea lock in IJmuiden will be officially put into use by Rijkswaterstaat. The new sea lock – being 70 metres wide, 500m long and 18m deep – was completed earlier in 2021 by the OpenIJ consortium. Over the last couple of months, the new IJmuiden lock has been [
Remarkable progress has taken place at the Aberdeen Harbour Expansion Project in 2021, and all marine-based activities at the project are now complete. Construction of two critical structures – the South Breawkater and the Crown Wall – has finished, and all 22 caissons are in place. The last of the
A £900,000 scheme to slow the erosion of Seaton’s eroding cliffs has taken a major step forward, East Devon District Council said. The council yesterday announced that the Seaton Hole Beach Management Plan, which has been several years in the making, has been rubber stamped by the Environment Agency
New research, published by the British Ports Association last week, revealed that UK port investment topped £1bn in 2021 despite continuing pandemic volatility. Investment in port infrastructure in 2021 stood at over £1bn, swelled by several big projects such as the £300m fourth berth at DP World’s
Wet civil engineering firm Land & Water has recently completed works on the River Great Ouse in Bedford, constructing a landing stage to encourage more boats to make the journey to the head of the navigation. The project, contracted by Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway Trust, saw Land & Water use its
Sevenoaks District Council and The Kent Wildlife Trust have moved one-step closer to securing funding for the improvements of Bradbourne Lakes in Sevenoaks, Kent. Earlier in the year, the two organisations jointly submitted the initial application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for £550,000 of funding
Land reclamation works for the Everton’s new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock are coming along nicely and on track to be completed early next year. Boskalis hopper dredger Shoalway kicked off the infill process last month, during which around 500,000 cubic metres of dredged sand will be placed into the
Jan De Nul’s largest cutter suction dredger Willem van Rubroeck has completed its first mission in Mauritania with success. In the port of the capital Nouakchott, the vessel was working for developer ARISE Mauritania, on the deepening of the access channel, the port basin and the new berth alongside
Royal IHC today officially handed over the first Easydredge trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) to SEMAR (Secretaria de Marina) at the Port of Veracruz in Mexico. The BAHIA SAN CARLOS of Easydredge 2700 series was built from stock at the Krimpen aan de IJssel and Kinderdijk shipyards in the Nethe
Herbosch-Kiere NV, through its British subsidiary Herbosch-Kiere Ltd, recently won a contract for the renewal of Thunderer Jetty which is situated on the Thames in Dagenham (near London). The jetty, originally built in the early 1900s, is owned by the international organisation Stolthaven Terminals,
The European Investment Bank (EIB) continues to promote climate action by providing €300 million to finance Port of Genoa expansion. This is the first EIB operation in Italy for a project co-financed by the government with resources from the Recovery and Resilience Facility Complementary Fund, the b
Construction works on the world’s largest sea lock in IJmuiden are now fully complete, according to the Dutch water agency Rijkswaterstaat. The new sea lock – being 70 metres wide, 500m long and 18m deep – will greatly improve the accessibility of the Port of Amsterdam and stimulate the region’s eco
