From seven entries, the jury of the Maritime Award: KNVTS Ship of the Year, the Netherlands’ most prestigious maritime award, has selected three nominees.
The prestigious KNVTS Ship of the Year Award is presented annually to a Dutch designed/built and/or outfitted ship that can be characterised as groundbreaking and scores well on criteria such as environment, safety and profitability. The twentieth edition of this award will be presented to the winner at the Maritime Awards Gala on 6 November.
The nominees are (in random order):
IJveer 60
After an open EU tender, GVB, the municipal public transport authority of the city of Amsterdam, awarded the contract for the construction of a ferry plus an option for a sister vessel to Holland Shipyards. These ferries for pedestrians, bicycles and scooters connect Amsterdam’s city centre with Amsterdam-Noord.
Compared to the existing ferries, the vessels are 6 metres longer, bringing the maximum passenger capacity to 410. Through its hybrid propulsion system, the IJveer 60 meets the highest standards of fuel efficiency and environmental requirements. Four diesel generator sets and two battery packages, situated in two engine rooms, drive the fore and aft steerable thruster. A power management system selects the optimum mode of power supply as operationally required. The diesel engines fulfil the requirements of stage V European emission standards, coming into force in 2019.
Raden Eddy Martadinata (KRI REM)
Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding (DSNS) was contracted by the Indonesian Navy for the construction and delivery of two (and two optional) guided missile frigates. Most remarkable about this project is the building process. The vessels are built in modules that are assembled at the PT PAL shipyard in Surabaya, Indonesia, where most modules are also constructed.
Two complex modules, the Power Plant and Combat System module, are built and tested in Flushing, the Netherlands, and shipped to the assembly yard. Project and quality control is assured by applying skid-mounted mechanical equipment.
The frigates are constructed and delivered under full responsibility of DSNS. The cooperation with the shipyard in Surabaya includes the upgrading of the yard’s facilities and extensive training programmes for its employees.
Seagull-301
The multi-mission USV (Unmanned Surface Vessel) Seagull-301 is the first of two prototype vessels that shipyard De Haas Maassluis BV (builder) and Ginton Naval Architects BV (designer) have delivered to Elbit Systems Ltd. These vessels can be deployed, both manned and unmanned, for various commercial and military duties, such as surveying, patrolling, security missions, incident management, and mine detection and neutralisation.
The innovative aspects are primarily its capabilities of unmanned and autonomous operation; duties which are now performed in manned condition may in future, depending on the development and ratification of legislation, be executed in unmanned mode.
Optimisation of the relatively large openings of the moonpools and the “hard chine planing hull” have resulted in a considerable reduction of the vessel’s resistance at high speed.
The vessel can be transported in three standard 40’ containers. The aluminium hull is built in three sections, which, disassembled, fit into two containers. The bridge module fits in the third.
The videos below introduce all three nominees.
