Shipowners and fuel producers launch Clean Maritime Fuels Platform
Access to clean maritime fuels is a top priority for the decarbonisation of the shipping sector. The new Clean Maritime Fuels Platform is a bottom-up industry initiative aiming to enhance communication between the shipping sector and fuel producers. The recently...
Royal Navy hunts down narco-sub filled with cocaine
Royal Navy patrol ship HMS Trent has seized EUR 213 million of cocaine from a "narco-sub" in the Caribbean Sea. It was the first narco-submarine the Royal Navy has ever intercepted. In eight drugs busts in seven months, the Portsmouth-based patrol ship has stopped...
PortXL welcomes 10 start-ups and scale-ups
Dutch maritime start-up accelerator PortXL presented its 2024 cohort at the RDM on 11 September. Ten start-ups and scale-ups presented themselves and were connected to partners, mentors and members of the Rotterdam and Dutch innovation ecosystem, that will assist them...
Dutch firms to land EUR 1 billion in submarine orders
Naval Group will build four new submarines for the Royal Netherlands Navy. In the mandatory industrial cooperation agreement (ICA) between the Dutch government and the shipyard, the financial value ending up in the Netherlands during the production phase is already...
Court ruling could result in major payout for CMB
CMB has announced that most claims by FourWorld Capital Management regarding the takeover of Euronav were rejected by the Market Court in Belgium. At the same time, FourWorld is happy that the court agrees that the share price paid was too low and could result in an...
VIDEO: Inland container ship hits Willemsbrug in Rotterdam
An inland container ship collided with the Willemsbrug in Rotterdam around 08:45 on Wednesday morning, 11 September. Five containers fell into the water of the Nieuwe Maas and sank. A salvage operation took place the same day to recover them. The vessel was...
First Dutch boosts Shipping Technology with investment
Shipping Technology, a Rotterdam-based upcoming player specialised in developing supportive tools for the shipping industry, has secured a significant investment from First Dutch in combination with the founders of Platform Zero. The hardware and software of Shipping...
Jumbo Javelin completes job at Yunlin Offshore Wind Farm
Jumbo Offshore has completed installing eighty transition pieces for the Yunlin Offshore Wind Farm in Taiwan. The company deployed its DP2 heavy-lift crane vessel Jumbo Javelin for the project. The contract was awarded by Yunneng Wind Power. Prior to undertaking the...
ABB and Seafjord unveil e-bunker vessel concept
SeaFjord Energy has chosen ABB’s power and propulsion solution for a pioneering e-bunker vessel concept. The vessel offers a new way of supplying energy to ships at sea, in fjords or in ports. The vessel concept, developed in collaboration with FKAB Marine Design and...
Mulder reveals 115-metre White Coral yacht design
Dutch design and naval architecture studio Mulder Design introduces White Coral, a striking 115-metre yacht. 'When we started this project a couple of years ago, we wanted to do a larger yacht as typically our projects range up to 60 metres,' says Bas Mulder, owner at...
ECT terminals Rotterdam switch to shore power
Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam's (ECT) container terminals will be equipped with shore power facilities in the coming years. ECT has agreed on this with Rotterdam Shore Power, a partnership between Eneco and the Port of Rotterdam Authority. The first ships are expected...
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