RH Marine performs more and more service remotely, using its Remote Assistance solution. In addition to saving cost, Remote Assistance...RH Marine performs more services remotely
Before commencing gas freeing operations, air moving equipment has to be grounded. On a tank barge where this was not...Do you check your ship’s air moving equipment before first use each day?
Bakker Sliedrecht will supply its innovative condition monitoring system for measuring vibration of bearings in submersible motors to trailing suction...New condition monitoring system limits downtime of dredgers
OHT orders two new installation vessels citing capacity concerns
Offshore Heavy Transport has ordered two new installation vessels with China Merchants Heavy Industry. “We are responding to client concerns about the lack of capable vessel capacity in the booming offshore wind market”, says CEO...Read more
How hybrid technology can optimise energy use on board ships
The technical lifespan of a ship is around thirty years. The economical lifespan, however, due to technological progress, is lower. Retrofitting battery based energy storage systems on existing ships can reduce operational costs. What are...Read more
Damen to deliver cutter suction dredger to Servimagnus in Argentina
Damen Shipyards has sold a full option Cutter Suction Dredger (CSD) 500 to the Argentinian dredging contractor Servimagnus. The CSD will work on the waterways programme in the province of Buenos Aires. The modular dredger...Read more
Two tanker mooring lines caught in bow thruster
Due care must always be taken with lines near a working bow thruster. A recent Mars Report features an incident in which the mooring lines were drawn into the thruster tunnel fouling the propeller blades.Read more
Wastewater checks could help track coronavirus on board cruise ships
Testing wastewater systems on long-haul planes and cruise ships could provide crucial information on detecting the presence of the Covid-19 virus in incoming passengers. According to Australian researchers, this test could be an additional public...Read more
Vestdavit deploys augmented reality to enhance remote support
Vestdavit enhances its remote support offering with augmented reality software from Ubimax, a provider of wearable technology solutions. The platform, named “xAssist”, will be used in conjunction with head-mounted hardware “RealWear HMT-1”.Read more
Blue Offshore moves 8000 tonnes of grid cables for Dutch OWF
Blue Offshore has moved 8000 tonnes of high voltage cable to Rotterdam. The cables will form the connection of Tennet’s Hollandse Kust Zuid Alpha Platform to the onshore grid.Read more
Jan De Nul delivers first pin piles for Taiwanese offshore wind farm
Jan De Nul Group has started transportation of the pin piles for the 376-MW Formosa 2 Offshore Wind Farm. The first batch of 26 pin piles was loaded on the transportation vessel BBC Onyx at...Read more
Putin plans to equip navy with super-fast weapons
Vladimir Putin has announced that Russia’s warships will be equipped with the most modern hypersonic weapons. According to the Russian President, the weapons, which he said are unique in the world, will expand the Russian...Read more
C-Job to open new office in Poland
C-Job Naval Architects will open an office in Gdansk, Poland this July. The new entity will expand on the ship design and engineering company’s existing activities and pursue new markets particularly in the Baltic and...Read more
‘Structural simulation model enables safe supercargo marine transport’
The structural assessment process required for heavy-lift transport projects on board multi-purpose vessels can benefit from existing finite element (FE) models according to DNV GL. This reduces time spent on FE modelling and analysis while...Read more
Van Oord to construct Hollandse Kust offshore wind farm
After CrossWind was awarded the permit for the Hollandse Kust (north) offshore wind farm earlier this week, Van Oord has been contracted for the engineering, construction and installation activities. CrossWind is a joint venture between...Read more
SWZ|Maritime’s June special about Dutch naval shipbuilding is here
What the new Dutch frigates will look like and who will build our new submarines is still unclear, but the decisions about this are expected within the next few years. Still, the authors in SWZ|Maritime’s...Read more
Oil field services provider Schlumberger cuts 21,000 jobs
Schlumberger is cutting 21,000 jobs in response to the pandemic and related oil crisis. CEO Olivier le Peuch says the second quarter ‘has probably been the most challenging quarter in the past decades.’ The company...Read more
Covid-19 app launched for the European river cruise sector
River cruise ports in the south and west of the Netherlands, Port of Amsterdam and Must See have launched the app Port See. This app provides up-to-date insight into the accessibility of ports for river...Read more