New ships need not be fitted with a Stage V engine until 1 January 2022. The European Parliament has agreed to this postponement as a concession for inland navigation vessels currently under construction that have...Read more
Koedood Marine Group is supplying a fuel cell system to convert the inland container ship Maas to hydrogen for Future Proof Shipping (FPS). The FPS ship is expected to be completely powered by hydrogen by...Read more
Concordia Damen has joined Lenten Scheepvaart to build the first inland navigation vessel in the Netherlands that will sail entirely on hydrogen. The vessel, to be named MV Antonie, will be 135 metres long, weigh...Read more
Towage services provider Kotug is establishing an inland shipping division. It will provide electric-powered pusher tugs and AI-driven dispatch and route planning applications for the inland navigation industry. Read more
Language problems increasingly cause collisions and shipping accidents in inland navigations. That is why English should be introduced as the official language in inland shipping. This is what Dutch trade organisation BLN Schuttevaer and Nationale...Read more
Concordia Damen Shipbuilding BV spent approximately eighteen months developing the major new inland shipping project “Parsifal”. The project involves the construction of a series of forty inland navigation tankers. The ships have an environmentally friendly...Read more
Anglo Belgian Corporation (ABC), a medium speed engine manufacturer located in Ghent, Belgium, has received the official EU Stage V certificate for its DZC type engines. ABC is the first medium speed engine manufacturer to...Read more
Although inland shipping is a relatively sustainable form of transport, a lot is being done to make it greener still. SWZ|Maritime’s April inland navigation special brings to the fore some of the innovative developments taking...Read more
Waste collection boats will be sailing the canals in the centre of Amsterdam the coming half year. In the Red Light District and Nieuwmarkt area, experiments will be conducted with the electric rubbish boats, which...Read more
For the first time, an inland navigation vessel is being built in the Netherlands that sails entirely on hydrogen. The 135-metre cargo ship Antonie is expected to be launched in 2023. Minister Cora van Nieuwenhuizen...Read more
Holland Shipyards Group (HSG) will retrofit Future Proof Shipping’s inland vessel Maas to a zero-emissions hydrogen propulsion system. After months of energy profiling, the 110 x 11.45-metre container ship will be retrofitted at the HSG...Read more
The Princess Amalia Harbour will be further developed with some 2.4 kilometres of quays and earth-retaining walls. This will increase annual throughput capacity in the port of Rotterdam by four million TEU. Construction will be...Read more
Inland shipping cooperative NPRC, together with German polymer producer Covestro, is going to convert part of its fleet on the Rhine to hydrogen-powered ships. The aim is to have the first two zero-emission ships sailing...Read more
Over the next three years, the Dutch government will allocate 11.7 million euros to make inland vessels more sustainable. The money is intended for cleaner and newer marine engines, says outgoing Minister Cora van Nieuwenhuizen...Read more
SolarDuck and Voyex have revealed plans that allow ships to be powered by hydrogen and refuelled at seaworthy floating solar islands. A prototype of such a solar island will soon be on display on the...Read more
Stolt Tankers has been commissioned by chemicals company BASF to help design and build a new tanker that can operate in extremely low water levels in the river Rhine. The ship will be built by...Read more
Automated navigation is the future of inland shipping, say UAntwerp and the Port of Antwerp. Together they developed a 3D sonar sensor to this end and tested it on the Port of Antwerp’s test vessel,...Read more
Shipbuilding group Damen Shipyards, hatchbuilder Blommaert Aluminium and solar energy specialist Wattlab have developed hatches with solar panels for inland vessels. Since this month, a first trial installation has been sailing through Europe.Read more
Rijkswaterstaat has put a new drone area into operation along the river Waal between Tiel and Nijmegen. In this area, Rijkswaterstaat and emergency services will test and fly autonomous drones under the name ‘Drone2Go’ in...Read more
In Amsterdam, four people were injured on Friday evening 20 November when a ferry from the GVB transport company collided with an inland waterway vessel. The accident happened on the IJ.Read more
