by Mariska Buitendijk | Jul 2, 2021 | Dredging, News, Ship design, Shipbuilding
Van Oord has held the naming ceremonies for two hybrid water injection vessels at its head office jetty in Rotterdam. The Maas and Mersey are versatile and have water injection dredging, mass flowing and power jetting systems. The vessels are also equipped with...
by Mariska Buitendijk | Jun 21, 2021 | Dredging, News, Shipbuilding
Royal IHC has officially handed over cutter suction dredger Hussein Tantawy to the Suez Canal Authority. Both the Hussein Tantawy and the Mohab Mameesh delivered earlier are 29,190-kW heavy-duty rock cutter suction dredgers with a total installed cutter power of 4800...
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by Mariska Buitendijk | Jun 15, 2021 | Dredging, News, Shipbuilding
For the second time, Royal IHC has launched the cutter suction dredger (CSD) Alyarmouk. While built in the Netherlands and first launched there, the vessel had subsequently been demounted and transported to Jordan for a second launch. The custom-built vessel is a...
by Mariska Buitendijk | Jun 10, 2021 | Dredging, News, Shipbuilding
European politics cannot be blamed of being blind to the future of the maritime sector anymore after it adopted the Opatija Declaration and set out its future outlook for EU waterborne transport. But is it enough to save the European shipbuilding and dredging industry...
by Mariska Buitendijk | May 27, 2021 | Deepsea mining, Dredging, News
It was about ten years ago when Dutch companies and people started thinking about the possibilities and necessity of deepsea mining. Of course, in the Netherlands and, not to forget Belgium, a lot of people and companies are involved in dredging. And dredging and...
by Mariska Buitendijk | May 20, 2021 | Deepsea mining, Dredging, Navy, News, Offshore, Offshore wind, Shipbuilding
Last year, the Dutch shipbuilder Royal IHC again plunged deep into the red due to large losses on the construction of several problem vessels. The company, which was saved from bankruptcy last year by a support campaign, is now seeing a recovery and thinks that a...
