A set of 70 tonne gates have been floated into Sharpness Docks, Berkeley, to replace those that have held back the sea for the past 52 years. The massive steel gates arrived by barge from Deest, in ...

Two new lock gates costing £5m have been installed at Grimsby docks. The gates, each weighing 70 tonnes, replace the 162-year-old system which was "hugely inefficient", dock owner Associated ...

New flood defence gates weighing 50 tonnes each are due to be installed at Bristol's historic docks in the next few days. The steel back-up lock gates, known as leaves, travelled 1,000 miles from the ...

Back in the 1950s when the docks were known as the “Gateway the World” because of the many ships departing to all corners of the globe, these were the two gates through which most people began ...

Two new lock gates costing £5m have been installed at Grimsby docks. The gates, each weighing 70 tonnes, replace the 162-year-old system which was "hugely inefficient", dock owner Associated ...