Innovative and sustainable cargo ship Egbert Wagenborg stayed ahead of the competition and won the Maritime KVNR Shipping Award at the Maritime Awards Gala last night.
The Maritime KVNR Shipping Award focuses on the improvement or innovation of company management. This can be in the area of human resources, environmental performance, fleet management or other innovative practices.
EasyMax
The objective in designing the EasyMax ship type, of which the Egbert Wagenborg is the first, was to create an easy to operate ship with maximum performance. This vessel is the largest vessel ever built in the north of the Netherlands, giving regional employment a major boost. Wagenborg's EasyMax is an innovative vessel where only essential ship equipment was taken as a point of departure for the design. The result is a cheap and lightweight vessel with an impressive cargo capacity of 14,300 tonnes and a volume of 625,000 cft.
With the optimal hull shape, it achieves a fuel consumption of only 9 t/d for a speed of 11 knots. The environmentally friendly operational mode is also demonstrated by its shorepower capability.
The era of digitalisation and connectivity has been fully integrated in the vessel, allowing personnel to monitor and access most systems from different places on board. Some systems are even accessible from shore in order to support trouble shoot operations.
Watch the award (and the Maritime Award: KNVTS Ship of the Year) being presented at the Gala:
Other Nominees
In total, the KVNR nominated three companies for the Maritime KVNR Shipping Award. The other two nominees were:
- Koole Engineering – Orca Tanker: a technology for special cargo tanks for chemical tankers at sea. This technology enables ships to sail with independent and isolated cargo tanks. Main advantages include 85% energy saving with heating the cargo; cleaning saves over 50% energy and saves much time; maximum flexibility propulsion; contamination of cargo is no longer possible; saving 35% on Duplex stainless steel; and possibility to reuse the tanks.
- Van Oord – Vox Amalia and Vox Alexia: The renewed type of these trailing suction hopper dredgers takes into account comfortable conditions for personnel through improved noise and vibration cancelling accommodation facilities; better energy management in the different operational modes of the ship; future proof handling through a further improved dredging atomization which enables one person to control the nautical and dredging processes.
Picture (top): Maritime Awards Gala host Jort Kelder with Wagenborg representatives and Maritime KVNR Shipping Award Jury President Tineke Netelenbos (by SWZ|Maritime/G.J. de Boer).
