Oceanco acquires maritime equipment company Winel
The Oceanco Group has taken over Winel. Winel operates in the field of tank vent check valves, manually operated doors and hatches, watertight sliding doors, hull doors and exclusive yacht equipment. Founded in 1956 and headquartered in Assen, the Netherlands, where...
Container throughput Rotterdam on the rise in first quarter
Total throughput at the port of Rotterdam fell by 1.4 per cent in the first quarter of 2024 compared to the same period last year. However, container throughput was on the rise, with a 3.3 per cent uptick. In the first three months of this year, throughput was 110.1...
How ports can supply green methanol and ammonia by 2030
A new report outlines strategies for ports to become first movers in providing green methanol and ammonia bunkering. It provides insights into the sources of green methanol and ammonia that could be available to the shipping industry and how ports can secure supply to...
HGK develops inland tanker for shipping ammonia and LCO2
HGK Shipping is introducing a groundbreaking inland waterway vessel design with the project name Pioneer. Equipped with innovative tank and loading systems, it will transport gases in liquefied forms, particularly cold liquefied ammonia (NH3) and liquefied carbon...
Hapag-Lloyd and Seaspan to retrofit five vessels to methanol propulsion
Hapag-Lloyd and Seaspan Corporation have partnered up to retrofit and convert five 10,100 TEU container ships powered by conventional MAN S90 engines to dual-fuel engines capable of operating on methanol. Following the engine retrofit, the vessels will continue to be...
VIDEO: Van Oord completes Spain’s largest beach restoration yet
Van Oord has completed the largest beach restoration in Spain’s history, restoring the beaches south of the city of Valencia to their original size. The beaches have been slowly eroding since 1965. The Spanish government contracted the joint venture of Van Oord...
Meriaura orders two biofuel-powered vessels from Royal Bodewes
Meriaura has signed a delivery contract for two Ecotrader cargo ships with the Dutch shipyard Royal Bodewes. According to the contract, the ships will be built in Hoogezand in Holland and their delivery will take place in January and December 2026. The ordered...
New trailing hopper simulator for MIWB
The Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz (MIWB) on Terschelling, the Netherlands, will acquire a new trailing hopper simulator. An investment from the Training and Development Fund for Hydraulic Engineering (Opleidings- en Ontwikkelingsfonds Waterbouw) enables the...
Tidy up or trip: Keep your deck free of clutter
Keep walkways free of clutter, also during dry dock work. This is The Nautical Instute's warning in one of its latest Mars Reports, in which a trip and fall of a crew member led to an injury. The Nautical Institute gathers reports of maritime accidents and...
Royal IHC and Kalypso ink LoI for cable lay vessel
Royal IHC and Kalypso Offshore Energy have signed a letter of intent (LoI) to build America’s first innovative Jones Act compliant cable lay vessel (CLV) for the offshore wind market. The 5000-tonne CLV is to be built in the USA. Kalypso, an emerging contractor for...
Damen Naval contracts Hatenboer for ASW Frigates
Damen Naval will partner with Hatenboer-Water on all freshwater systems on board the four Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Frigates that the shipyard is building for the Netherlands and Belgium. With this contract, Damen Naval has once again found a Dutch supplier for the...
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