The charter rates for multi-purpose vessels continue their positive trend into the new year and have broken through the USD...Multi-purpose vessel charter rates pass USD 7000 mark
Heerema Marine Contractors’ large vessels such as the Sleipnir and Thialf will soon use the shore power installation on the...Heerema’s ships will soon plug into shore power, Vopak may follow
Divers have found a number of cannons and some military equipment in the seabed off the uninhabited island of Razende...Divers find cannons of sunken British warship from 1799
Holland America Line extends pause in cruise operations to 30 April
Cruise company Holland America Line will extend the pause in its operations for all departures through April 30, 2021. The measure includes Alaska, Mexican Riviera, Pacific Coast, Caribbean, Mediterranean and Canada/New England departures.Read more
Wallenius Wilhelmsen takes nine vessels out of cold layup
Wallenius Wilhelmsen will reactivate up to nine of its sixteen vessels that are currently in cold lay-up. Reactivation will take place during the first quarter of 2021 and the reactivated vessels will replace capacity currently...Read more
Pioneering Spirit booked to remove disused gas platforms in the Irish Sea
Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit, the largest vessel in the world, will travel to the Irish Sea this year to remove two normally unmanned installations in the East Irish Sea. The 11,000-tonne platforms owned by Spirit Energy...Read more
Heesen to deliver six superyachts in 2021
Heesen Yachts in Oss, the Netherlands, plans to deliver six superyachts this year. These include 50-metre Projects Triton and Aquamarine and 60-metre Project Falcon. The company currently has fourteen yachts in its order book with...Read more
Philippine Ports Authority bans crew changes until at least 15 January
The new, probably more infectious variants of coronavirus that first surfaced in the UK and South Africa is impacting crew changes. The Philippine Ports Authority has banned crew changes until at least 15 January for...Read more
2020 was KNRM’s busiest sea rescue year to date
The Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution (KNRM) looks back on a year in which the effect of corona was visible in everything that happened on and around the water. The greatest effect was seen in...Read more
Royal Bodewes sends third Trader 4800 for Scotline on sea trials
The Scot Ranger has left Royal Bodewes Shipyards in Hoogezand to go on sea trials. The ship, which is to be the third Trader 4800 for Scotline, Inverness, was towed to the sea harbour of...Read more
126 containers removed from MV ONE Apus so far
ONE has announced that unloading of containers on board the ONE Apus has been proceeding steadily. So far, 126 containers have been removed from the 14,000-TEU ship that lost more than 1800 containers on 30...Read more
Feadship’s 77-metre Project 707 leaves yard for sea trials
At 4:30 on Tuesday morning 5 January, the 77-metre Project 707 left the Feadship facility in Aalsmeer on its way to sea trials. The route to the sea holds some tight fits as the pictures...Read more
Boskalis acquires subsea services specialist Rever Offshore
Boskalis has bought all the shares of Rever Offshore’s subsea services business. Rever, formally known as Bibby Offshore, offers a broad range of solutions in the area of subsea construction, inspection, repair and maintenance.Read more
Construction kicks off for Spliethoff’s new offshore supply vessels
Construction on Spliethoff’s new B-Type heavy lift vessels has begun with a steel cutting ceremony at the Mawei shipyard in Fuzhou, China. The vessels will combine DP2 station-keeping abilities with two 500-tonne heavy lift cranes,...Read more
‘Quarter of cargo lost by container ship MSC Zoe still in the North Sea’
Two years after container ship MSC Zoe lost 342 containers, a quarter of this cargo remains in the North Sea. This needs to be cleaned up as quickly as possible, says Ewout van Galen of...Read more
Jumbo installs mooring system in record water depth
Jumbo Offshore has installed a 14-point FPSO mooring system at a depth of 1760 metres, breaking its own deepwater record. The project was carried out in preparation for the installation of the first FPSO ever...Read more
Neptune to build sailing freighter for transport of Ariane 6 rockets
The Dutch shipyard Neptune Marine in Hardinxveld-Giessendam has been selected to build a futuristic sailing vessel. The 121-metre long Canopée, as the ship will be called, will be equipped with four 30-metre high Oceanwings. It...Read more
Dutch navy vessel Groningen returns to the Netherlands for repairs
The patrol vessel HNLMS Groningen has to break off the deployment in the Caribbean due to a technical defect to its starboard axis. The Dutch navy ship started its return voyage to the Netherlands on...Read more