Van Oord completes monopile installation at Baltica 2
Van Oord has installed all 111 monopiles for the Baltica 2 wind farm in Poland, including 107 for wind turbines and four for offshore substations. This milestone concludes one of the most demanding offshore construction campaigns in the Baltic Sea. PGE and Ørsted are...
AI tools key for meeting IMO climate targets
Yarden Gross, CEO and co-founder of maritime technology start-up Orca AI, champions the rapid – but responsible – deployment of smart, cost-effective digital tools to tackle climate challenges in the shipping industry. Leveraging machine learning and data insights, AI...
Crew member nearly crushed while loading ferry
A crew member very nearly got crushed by a truck while a ferry was loading cars and trucks. In its latest Mars Report, the Nautical Institute points out that the crew member involved lacked experience and was not guided by someone more experienced. The Nautical...
Submarine power plants: potential of new configurations
From the magazine - In recent years, Nevesbu BV and the TU Delft have developed, through a number of MSc graduation studies, a Mean Value First Principle submarine power plant model. This model is used to perform multiple design studies to investigate the potential of...
VIDEO: Damen builds recyclable pontoon for Port of Rotterdam
Damen Shipyards has built the first pontoon ever made of environmentally conscious high density polyethylene (HDPE). Built at its yard in Gorinchem for the Port of Rotterdam, the Damen Stan Pontoon B4 is fully recyclable, preserving valuable raw materials and...
Pressure washer injury on tanker
A pressure washer is like a loaded gun, warns The Nautical Institute in its latest Mars Report. In the accident described, a water jet penetrated the safety shoe of a crew member on board a tanker. The Nautical Institute gathers reports of maritime accidents and...
UK university develops VR for enclosed space training
Safety experts from Solent University/Southampton's Warsash Maritime School, are collaborating with the Centre for Factories of the Future (C4FF) to create Virtual Reality (VR) maritime safety training. The project focuses on enclosed space simulation. Aimed at...
Wavepiston to research wave energy with Ørsted
Wavepiston has started a collaboration with Ørsted to investigate the potential for co-location of offshore wind and wave energy in Denmark. The collaboration will analyse the benefits of combining offshore wind and wave energy and show the potential of optimising the...
Rotterdam looks into shore power for tankers
As part of a CEF Study project co-funded by the European Union, Port of Rotterdam, in collaboration with the municipality of Rotterdam and various partners in the Port of Rotterdam, is conducting four feasibility studies for shore power. One of these researches the...
Speed limit urged in Mediterranean to protect whales
According to OceanCare, the probability of a collision having a lethal effect on a whale is very low when the ship's speed does not exceed 10 knots. Yet, eigthy per cent of the ships that sailed in the north-western part of the Mediterranean Sea went faster in 2023....
Line breaks six times – when is enough enough?
During discharging operations, a tug's line fastened to the tanker broke no less than six times due to the weather conditions, yet operations were never halted. The Nautical Institute discusses the incident in its latest Mars Report. The Nautical Institute gathers...
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