The new cutter suction dredger (CSD) Mohab Mameesh has arrived in Egypt after it was transported by the semi-submersible vessel Xiang Rui Kou from Rotterdam. The 29,190-kW heavy-duty rock CSD is one of the most...Read more
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
Royal IHC handed over the cutter suction dredger (CSD) Mohab Mameesh to the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) on Thursday 18 March after it completed commissioning tests on the Dutch coastline and Haringvliet. The 29,190-kW heavy-duty...Read more
Sif Holding and Royal IHC have finalised the acquisition of KCI the engineers by Sif. The sale is part of IHC’s major restructuring programme for which the company announced it would focus on its core...Read more
Royal IHC and the Department of Material Maintenance of the Royal Netherlands Navy have signed a contract for the docking and repair of HNLMS Groningen. The ship is currently back in the Netherlands due to...Read more
Royal IHC and Royal Doeksen have reached an agreement on the acquisition of all shares in Vuyk Engineering Rotterdam. The sale is part of IHC’s major restructuring programme for which the company announced it would...Read more
DEME Group’s giant LNG-powered dredger Spartacus has left the Royal IHC shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel on its way to Maasvlakte 2 for further commissioning. It is the world’s most powerful cutter suction dredger...Read more
Rotterdam Offshore Group (ROG) has charted an independent future after reacquiring a controlling 75 per cent stake previously held by shipbuilder Royal IHC. The move marks an important development for ROG, which comprises two divisions...Read more
The pipe-layer Amazon of offshore contractor McDermott has been undergoing an upgrade in the port of Rotterdam for several months now. This week, Heerema’s mega crane vessel Sleipnir was called in to install the new...Read more
Shipbuilder Royal IHC has launched the IHC Beaver 65DDSP, called Oreoluwa, for Oretol Nigeria Limited at its yard in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands. The vessel, which will be delivered in combination with a booster station and...Read more
Van Oord’s new trailing suction hopper dredger, the Vox Ariane, has been launched at Keppel Offshore & Marine’s shipyard in Singapore. The vessel is the first of three new hoppers and is fitted with an...Read more
Royal IHC will design and engineer a 5000-m3 trailing suction hopper dredge (TSHD) for US based Cashman Dredging & Marine Contracting. With this order Royal IHC will deliver technological know-how in its design package which...Read more
Watch the new heavy-duty rock cutter suction dredger (CSD) Mohab Mameesh undergoing its sea trials in a new video released by Royal IHC. During the trials, which took place near the Dutch coast in the...Read more
Royal IHC has been testing the performance of the dredge pump of the cutter suction dredger Alyarmouk the company is building for Arab Potash Company (APC) based in Jordan. This will be followed by commissioning...Read more
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
The cutter suction dredger (CSD) Alyarmouk has been launched at Royal IHC’s shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, the Netherlands. The custom-built vessel is a 3557-kW CSD and a further developed copy of the dredger...Read more
Royal IHC has completed the sea trials of the two 3500-m3 split hoppers Bengel and Deugniet for DEME Group. Once completed, DEME says the vessels will work along its giant cutter suction dredger Spartacus.Read more
Subsea 7 has taken delivery of its new reel-lay vessel Seven Vega. The Royal IHC built ship is designed to install complex rigid flowlines including pipe-in-pipe systems, piggyback systems and electrical trace
heating, in water depths...Read more
Royal IHC has announced a major restructuring. It means approximately 300 jobs will be lost in the Netherlands over the coming months, with a similar number of redundancies taking place outside of the country. This...Read more
Royal IHC has launched the second of two dredgers currently under construction at the shipyard for the Suez Canal Authority (SCA). The 29,190-kW rock cutter suction dredger Hussein Tantawy will be used to maintain and...Read more
