Anemoi and Maersk plan Rotor Sails for container ship
Anemoi Marine Technologies will supply its Rotor Sail system for installation on a container vessel in A.P. Moller-Maersk's 8700 TEU Lima class. This is the first time that Rotor Sails will be installed on a container vessel. Anemoi is a British innovator in...
Crew member’s fingers crushed during maintenance
Before carrying out any job, carry out an informal risk assessment which involves inspecting the job and the surrounding area. The Nautical Institute gives this advice in a new Mars Report, in which a crew member suffered injuries to two of his fingers. The Nautical...
How ICODOS turns sewage biogas into a marine fuel
Start-up ICODOS has built a plant that purifies biogas produced at a sewage treatment plant and turns it into climate-neutral methanol for ships using green hydrogen. The plant was opened on 24 March and is located at the Mannheim sewage treatment plant in Germany....
Value Maritime and MOL complete carbon capture first
Value Maritime (VM) has installed its exhaust gas cleaning system and carbon capture unit aboard a Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) tanker. The 75,000-DWT Nexus Victoria is now the largest vessel to incorporate VM’s SOx scrubber with advanced carbon capture technology and...
BEAmer: Capsized De Gallant’s rigging required more crew
After sailing from Colombia, the sailing cargo vessel De Gallant, over a century old, sank on Tuesday 21 May 2024 in the Bahamas. The French marine accident investigation authority BEAmer investigated the accident and finds the crew was essentially too small to handle...
Royal IHC designs cutter head for even the largest dredgers
More efficient cutting, a longer operational lifetime, and lower energy consumption – that’s what Royal IHC's latest cutter head technology for dredgers is all about. The Curve Tooth cutter head represents a major step forward in optimising the cutting process....
VIDEO: Fugro survey vessel runs aground in Italy
On 22 March, Fugro received report that its geophysical survey vessel Fugro Mercator had run aground on the north coast of Elba, Italy. Cause of the grounding is as yet unknown. The authorities were immediately notified, and the Italian Coastguard arrived on site...
Report flags growing Chinese threat to dredging sector
The Dutch and Belgian dredging industry is of strategic importance to the economy, water safety, and energy transition in both countries. While the sector is globally renowned for its expertise in maritime civil engineering, it is now under significant pressure due to...
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Port experience centre Portlantis festively opened
Portlantis, the new port experience centre at Maasvlakte II, Rotterdam, was festively opened on the afternoon of Wednesday 19 March. Rotterdam's Mayor Carola Schouten officiated at the opening in the atrium of Portlantis. From Saturday 22 March, Portlantis opens to...
VIDEO: Odfjell retrofits tanker with Bound4blue eSAILs
Odfjell has had four of Bound4blue’s 22-metre eSAILs retrofitted on its 49,000-DWT chemical tanker Bow Olympus. It is the first installation of a wind propulsion system for the chemical tanker specialist. A tailored two-step installation process was deployed to...
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