SWZ|Maritime's October issue is here and presents you with all of the nominees of the Maritime Awards 2018 as well as an extensive description of Heerema's semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) Sleipnir.
On Monday 12 November this year's edition of the Maritime Awards Gala takes place at Taets Art and Event Park in Zaandam, the Netherlands. As in previous years, five maritime awards will be presented to their respective winners: the Maritime Award KNVTS Ship of the Year, the maritime KVNR Shipping Award, the Maritime Designer Award, the Maritime Innovation Award and the Maritime Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) Van Hengel-Spengler Award. Our October issue takes a look at all the nominees.
For the Maritime Award KNVTS Ship of the Year these are:
- Reversed Sterndrive Drive (RSD) Tug 2513 Twin Fin Innovation, designed and partially built by Damen Shipyards Gorinchem;
- Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger (TSHD) Scheldt River, designed and built by Royal IHC;
- Patrol vessel RPA 8, designed and built by Scheepswerf Gebr. Kooiman BV.
For the Maritime KVNR Shipping Award:
- The sustainable deployment policy of the Nederlands Loodswezen (Dutch pilots);
- The Carrousel Rave Tug of Multraship & Novatug;
- The Windcat MK3.5 vessels of Windcat Workboats.
For the Maritime Designer Award:
- Gijsbert van Marrewijk (Berthan Research), research into the application of T-foils under fast ships;
- Roy de Winter (C-Job Naval Architects), methodology that speeds up the ship design process.
For the Maritime Innovation Award:
- Mampaey Offshore Industries with its intelligent Dock Locking System;
- Veth Propulsion with the Veth Intergrated L-drive;
- Fleet Cleaner with its Fleet Cleaner.
For the Maritime RNLN Van Hengel-Spengler Award:
- Marijn Nap-Boone, who found a way to compress data sets of atmospheric models for operational use at sea;
- Niek van den Nieuwenhuijzen, who analysed torsional vibrations in a ship's propulsion plant;
- Kirsten Schmidt, who investigated how Augmented Reality (AR) could aid navy personnel with safe navigation on the bridge.
Sleipnir
Following a period of unfavourable market conditions and low investments in the oil and gas industry, Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) is gearing up for an expected growth in demand for heavy lifting services. This concerns heavy lifting for transportation and installation of offshore structures, decommissioning of platforms, and projects in the renewables sector. HMC brings the Sleipnir to the market with lifting capacities far exceeding those of the Thialf. In this respect, the Sleipnir’s design is a breakthrough. Read all about this spectacular design in SWZ|Maritime's October issue.
Subscribers can now read the digital version of the October issue online or download it from the SWZ Archive. Please note that due to the sensitive nature of the details found in the general arrangement and deck layout drawings of the Sleipnir, these have been blurred in the online edition.
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Picture: The Sleipnir, two booms up (by Heerema Marine Contractors).
