After its launch in August, Heesen’s YN 19255 Project Pollux is now preparing to leave the shipyard to undergo sea...55-metre yacht Project Pollux almost ready for sea trials
Over the past three years BeHydro has developed, produced and extensively tested a dual-fuel (diesel-hydrogen) engine with a capacity of...BeHydro launches 1-MW hydrogen-powered dual-fuel marine engine
The Gas Agility arrived at the Holland Amerikakade near Cruiseport Rotterdam on Friday 18 September. The ship was christened there...Largest LNG bunker ship in the world arrives in Rotterdam
Finnish ferry runs aground near archipelago
A Finnish ferry carrying some 280 people ran aground on Sunday 20 September. This happened near the Åland Islands between Finland and Sweden. With the help of the authorities, all passengers were evacuated from the...Read more
Video: Damen launches Marine Aggregate Dredger for Hanson
Damen Shipyards Group has launched a Marine Aggregate Dredger (MAD) 3500 at its Galati yard in Romania. Damen is building the MAD for UK-based Hanson. The company will use the vessel to conduct offshore aggregate...Read more
Video: Neptune Marine launches shallow draft cable transport barge
Neptune Marine has launched a custom design cable transport barge for Danish power cable solution provider NKT. The pontoon has a very shallow draft to allow it to transport cables over Europe’s inland waterways throughout...Read more
Swire eyes GustoMSC designed wind farm installation jack-up
Swire Blue Ocean (SBO) intends to order a new offshore installation vessel with an option for a second new-build. The vessel is based on GustoMSC’s NG-20000X-G design. At the same time, the company plans to...Read more
Jan De Nul installs first wind turbine for Taiwanese wind farm
Jan De Nul Group has installed the first offshore wind turbine for the 109.2-MW Taiwan Power Company Offshore Windfarm Phase 1 Project – Demonstration. The Hitachi turbine with downwind rotor was installed onto the jacket...Read more
Blue Water Shipping target of hacker attack
Blue Water Shipping has been the target of an attempted hacker attack. However, with the help of experts, the company was able to prevent an actual breach of the system, the freight forwarder announces on...Read more
Vroon to recycle three platform supply vessels
Vroon Offshore Services (VOS) has decided to dispose of three platform supply vessels (PSVs), with the aim of “right-sizing” its PSV fleet. The vessels, VOS Power, VOS Producer and VOS Prominence, were built between 2006...Read more
World’s largest LNG bunkering vessel expected in Rotterdam
Although it arrived in Rotterdam’s offshore anchorage almost a month ago, the Gas Agility will now finally call on Rotterdam. At 8 am on the 18th of September, the ship is expected to arrive at...Read more
‘Installation vessel Orion was whiplash proof, but its crane was not’
SWZ|Maritime’s offshore expert Björn von Ubisch has analysed the crane accident with DEME’s new offshore vessel Orion. His conclusion: ‘the ship could handle the “whiplash” effect, but the crane could not.’ In the meantime, Liebherr...Read more
Video: Royal IHC concludes deepsea mining project Blue Nodules
Recently, the Blue Nodules project in which Royal IHC was the coordinating partner has ended. The deepsea mining research project has resulted in a prototype vehicle for nodule collection, the testing of many components and...Read more
2.6 billion euros for maintenance of Dutch waterways, roads and railways
Dutch Minister Van Nieuwenhuizen and State Secretary Van Veldhoven have set aside more than 2.6 billion euros from the Infrastructure Fund to ensure the maintenance of roads, railways and waterways. This is to mitigate the...Read more
Charter rates claw back slowly
The charter rates for multipurpose vessels keep slowly improving from their downfall earlier this year. In the latest edition of Toepfer’s Multipurpose Shipping Index, the average day rate for a 12,500-DWT geared vessel now stands...Read more
Interactive Viewer provides 360-degree experience of ship design
C-Job Naval Architects has launched the Interactive Viewer. In addition to allowing documents such as 2D arrangement drawings, technical specifications, and material lists to be accessed at any time, the viewer also holds a complete...Read more
‘Shipping in light version of European Emissions Trading Scheme’
The European shipping sector will fall under the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). This will only apply to transport in European waters. Last week, the World Shipping Council strongly criticised the ETS scheme for...Read more
Boskalis’ dredger attacked with Molotov cocktails
The Queen of the Netherlands, a trailing suction hopper dredger from the Dutch dredging company Boskalis, has suffered an organised attack in Indonesia. Hundreds of environmentalists and fishermen bombarded the vessel with Molotov cocktails and...Read more