Bakker Sliedrecht tests biodegradable oil in submersible motors Van Oord
Bakker Sliedrecht will start research to determine whether biodegradable oil can be used in the submersible motors that the company has supplied for equipment of Van Oord. If this is applicable, the international marine contractor...Read more
Svitzer reveals plans for world’s first fully remotely controlled tugboat
Svitzer A/S, Kongsberg Maritime and American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) have signed a deal to jointly develop the Recotug. This is to be the world’s first commercial tug to be fully operated from a remote...Read more
Jumbo develops device to remove flash rust from its heavy-lift vessels
Jumbo has developed a machine to remove persistent flash rust caused by the removal of temporarily welded securings on board its heavy-lift vessels. The device removes flash rust faster than the existing methods, improves working...Read more
Tanker to be designed that can sail on both methanol and ammonia
A new project will investigate a tanker that can use both methanol and ammonia as a fuel. The Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute (SDARI) will design the ship concept, while classification society RINA...Read more
Sustainable Marine unveils new floating tidal energy platform
Sustainable Marine is to deliver the world’s first floating tidal energy array. Construction of the 420-kW PLAT-I 6.40 platform was recently completed at A.F. Theriault & Son Ltd. in Meteghan, Nova Scotia, and it was...Read more
Corvus Energy to develop maritime fuel-cell systems with Toyota
Energy storage specialist Corvus Energy is set to start development and production of sustainable, large scale maritime-certified hydrogen fuel cell systems. Production will be located in Bergen, Norway, with Toyota as a key partner and...Read more
Port of Rotterdam trials smart bollard at ECT Delta Terminal
Along the quay of the Hutchison Ports ECT Delta terminal on the Maasvlakte, the Port of Rotterdam Authority has installed a smart bollard as part of a trial. By measuring the strain on the mooring...Read more
Wärtsilä to build hydrogen cruise ship engine for EU research project
Wärtsilä has joined research project CHEK led by the University of Vaasa in Finland, which seeks to reduce the environmental impact of shipping. The project will design two concept vessels: a bulk carrier, which will...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
How to raise the autonomy level of the dredging process
Shipbuilder Royal IHC is working on the development of autonomous trailing suction hopper dredgers. This will not mean unmanned, as R&D engineer Digital Business Systems Jeroen van Stappen points out, but the goal is to...Read more
Next step in autonomous shipping could be 3D sonar sensors
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
AI research to make sea voyages more energy efficient
Swedish technology entrepreneurs and academics have joined forces to accelerate the development of an AI-based, semi-autonomous system for planning and executing more energy efficient sea voyages. The project combines Lean Marine’s FuelOpt and Fleet Analytics...Read more
European project seeks to reduce the impact of underwater noise
Noise from ships disturbs and threatens marine life. In the European project SATURN, twenty project partners from ten countries will work on a cleaner, quieter maritime sector over the next four years. The focus will...Read more
NAVAIS: The next step in shipbuilding
Car designers around the world are intimately familiar with it, and the success of the large car making conglomerates are built upon it: platform based design. A limited series of vehicle platforms is used to...Read more
Damen Shipyards to spearhead EU defence development project
The European Commission has selected the SEA Defence project coordinated by Damen Shipyards Group within its European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP 2019). SEA Defence is unique in that it brings together European naval yards,...Read more
Neptune plans to capture CO2 in depleted Dutch North Sea gas fields
Neptune Energy has announced a feasibility study into plans for a large-scale offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project in the Dutch North Sea, with the potential to safely store 120-150 million tonnes of CO2....Read more
Solar and seaweed farm combined at sea for the first time
Oceans of Energy and The Seaweed Company have installed offshore solar and seaweed farms at the North Sea Farmers Test Site, twelve kilometres off the coast of Scheveningen. The farms use the same space to...Read more
Australian icebreaker Nuyina starts sea trial campaign
Australia’s icebreaker Nuyina has left the Damen Schelde Naval Yard in Vlissingen for sea and deepwater trials on the North Sea. Testing of the ship’s speed, noise, propulsion systems, steering, advanced electrical systems, and science...Read more