Southern Spars is one of the leading sailing rig designers and responsible for the DynaRig systems used on the superyachts...DynaRig sailing systems to become available to commercial shipping
Wärtsilä has joined research project CHEK led by the University of Vaasa in Finland, which seeks to reduce the environmental...Wärtsilä to build hydrogen cruise ship engine for EU research project
Heesen Yachts has joined the hull and superstructure of all-aluminium YN 19850 at its yard in Oss, the Netherlands. The...Heesen joins hull and superstructure of 50-metre yacht Project Sapphire
More auxiliary wind propulsion systems find their way to the market
Wind-assisted ship propulsion seems to be gaining momentum. 2021 has kicked off with Norsepower installing its first tiltable Rotor Sail on a ro/ro vessel and Boomsma’s Frisian Sea sailing off with two eConowind VentiFoils. In...Read more
Aft ship cut from ferry Münsterland as part of LNG conversion
Shipbuilder Royal Niestern Sander has removed the aft ship of the passenger ship Münsterland. Subsequently, the 300-tonne aft ship was transported to Groningen. The transport is part of an LNG conversion project. The old systems...Read more
Construction of new training ship for Dutch maritime college STC kicks off
Construction of the STC training vessel Ab Initio has begun. Concordia Damen, in collaboration with Gebroeders De Jonge Shipbuilding Services, has commissioned the construction of the hull at the yard in Apatin, Serbia. The steel...Read more
Pirates board container ship off Nigeria and kill crew member
Pirates have attacked a container ship in the Gulf of Guinea. One person was killed and fifteen others were kidnapped, the Turkish state news agency Anadolu reported on Sunday 24 January. The kidnapped crew members...Read more
DNV GL judges Heerema’s Silent Foundation concepts to be feasible
Heerema has been working on developing “silent foundations” that can be installed without loud hammering, which can be harmful to marine life and requires noise mitigation systems that produce a considerable CO2 footprint. DNV GL...Read more
Seatools to supply crawler equipment for Allseas’ deepsea mining project
Subsea technology company Seatools will deliver the electrical, hydraulic, and control system for Allseas’ deepsea mining nodule collector. The project is part of Allseas’ development programme to realise advanced deep-water equipment for the gathering of...Read more
Cutter suction dredger enters final commissioning phase
Royal IHC has been testing the performance of the dredge pump of the cutter suction dredger Alyarmouk the company is building for Arab Potash Company (APC) based in Jordan. This will be followed by commissioning...Read more
Unclear pilotage root cause for ship collision in Scheldt area
On 21 January 2018, the Dutch pilot vessel Pollux and the Panamanian bulk carrier Nord Taurus collided off the coast of Zeeland, the Netherlands. The Dutch Safety Board now concludes the cause of the accident...Read more
Safety equipment becomes snag hazard and crew member injures finger
Sometimes, safety equipment itself can be a hazard, argues The Nautical Institute after a crew member suffered an injury on board a cargo vessel. In this case, open half-links were used to support the safety...Read more
Heerema to construct Hollandse Kust substation jacket
Heerema Fabrication Group will construct the Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore transformer substation jacket. The contract for this was signed with Iemants (part of Smulders). The jacket will be 44 metres high and consists of 1600...Read more
Maersk container ship loses 750 containers in North Pacific
Once again a large container ship has lost a large number of containers in heavy weather. This time it is the Maersk Essen, which lost some 750 containers in the middle of the North Pacific.Read more
Jan De Nul adds two new dredgers to its fleet
Jan De Nul has welcomed the brand-new cutter suction dredger Willem van Rubroeck in the Port of Ghent on Wednesday 20 January. It is the largest cutter suction dredger in the company’s fleet. On the...Read more
Boluda Towage takes over Dutch Iskes Towage & Salvage
Boluda Towage SL will acquire the port towage activities of Iskes Towage & Salvage in Eemshaven (the Netherlands), Lubeck (Germany), and Lisbon (Portugal) as well as its offshore activities. The takeover also includes the management...Read more
Dutch naval exercise in Norway plagued by corona
A Dutch naval exercise in Norway is being plagued by Covid-19. Despite the measures taken, two soldiers tested positive upon arrival. Within the corps, people are questioning whether the training should continue, writes Dutch newspaper...Read more
Pioneering Spirit’s new jacket lift system is materialising
After eighteen months of production at sites around the globe, the unique jacket lift system is beginning to take shape on board the world’s largest ship, the Pioneering Spirit. Assembly is in full flow, with...Read more