During the night, the tugs BB Ocean and Normand Drott have arrived at the Eemslift Hendrika, reports the Norwegian Coast...Salvage attempt Eemslift Hendrika to get underway [UPDATE]
The Nautical Institute stresses that every mariner has a duty to report unsafe conditions. In one of the Institute’s recent...Do you report unsafe conditions you come across on a vessel?
With waves of fifteen to eighteen metres high and much wind, the Norwegian Coast Guard says that for now it...Weather makes salvage Eemslift Hendrika impossible for now
Norwegian Coast Guard releases new videos of Eemslift Hendrika adrift
Norwegian Coast Guard vessel Sortland is now at the Eemslift Hendrika, which has been adrift since Monday evening. A surveillance aircraft has also shot new footage of the ship showing that the work boat that...Read more
[VIDEO] Pioneering Spirit’s new jacket lift system nears completion
Allseas is equipping its mega heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit with a second unique lift system. It is capable of removing and installing complete offshore jackets weighing up to 20,000 tonnes in one go. After...Read more
Smit Salvage team en route to listing Eemslift Hendrika [UPDATE]
Boskalis has confirmed that its subsidiary Smit Salvage has been hired to salvage the Eemslift Hendrika, which is currently adrift without a crew off the coast of Norway. A salvage team will be deployed as...Read more
‘Amasus Shipping hires Smit Salvage to rescue Eemslift Hendrika’
Norwegian public broadcasting company NRK reports Smit Salvage has been hired to aid in the salvage of the Eemslift Hendrika, which is currently adrift off the Norwegian coast. In the meantime, a Norwegian Coast Guard...Read more
IHC receives approval in principle for hydrogen-fuelled dredger
Royal IHC has received an approval in principle (AiP) from classification society Bureau Veritas for the design of a hydrogen-fuelled trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD). In an innovation partnership with Rijkswaterstaat, the shipyard is exploring...Read more[VIDEO] Amasus ship carrying project cargo adrift off Norway [UPDATE]
A multi-purpose vessel sailing under the Dutch flag ran into trouble off Norway on 5 April. It concerns the Eemslift Hendrika co-owned by Amasus Shipping in Delfzijl, the Netherlands. The cargo on board has shifted...Read more
Suez Canal traffic jam caused by grounded ship Ever Given resolved
The last ships stranded due to the Suez Canal blockade passed the important waterway on Saturday 3 April. The Egyptian state company Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has announced this. The Suez Canal was open for...Read more
Personnel Van Oord protest against Covid schedules for seafarers
Personnel of dredging and offshore company Van Oord have rebelled against the Covid-19 schedule that the company still unilaterally imposes on crews on its ships. This means that they spend six weeks on a ship...Read more
Gdańsk Remontowa will repair offshore installation vessel Orion I
After the accident with its 5000-tonne crane during the load test in May 2020, DEME’s new offshore installation vessel Orion 1 as well as its crane suffered considerable damage. In September, Liebherr stated it would...Read more
Damen expands hopper dredger portfolio
Damen Shipyards has extended its trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) offering. The full TSHD range now covers hopper volumes from 650 to 5000 m3 and includes both hopper dredgers for port maintenance and multi-purpose dredgers.Read more
Charter rates continue to shoot up sharply
Demand for multipurpose vessels is booming. The charter rates have shot up by 7.6 per cent month on month to USD 8902 on average, shows Toepfer’s Multipurpose Shipping Index. That is nearly eighteen per cent more...Read more
‘Crew of container ship Ever Given may be detained’
The 25-strong Indian crew of the container ship Ever Given is at risk of being detained as part of the investigation into the cause of its grounding in the Suez Canal. The Times of India...Read more
Meyer Werft lands first cruise ship newbuild contract since start of pandemic
Meyer Werft is the first shipyard in the world to have succeeded in securing a cruise ship newbuild contract since the beginning of the pandemic. The relatively small cruise ship of 229 metres in length...Read more
Container ship Ever Given grounding: Could it happen again?
Asking the question is answering it and Murphy’s law supports it. Could we make the Ever Given grounding in the Suez Canal a rare event? Understanding what likely happened would be the first step. Relevant...Read more
Inmarsat takes Dutch Government to court over reallocation of ships’ emergency communications
Inmarsat will initiate proceedings with the civil court in the Netherlands seeking an injunction to review the change in spectrum allocation set out by the Dutch Government. The change aims to reallocate the spectrum currently...Read more