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...
‘Severe disruption due to Red Sea crisis will remain’
Missile strikes by the US and UK against Houthi militia in Yemen has brought heightened tensions across the region with disruption to ocean freight shipping set to deteriorate further. This expectation was expressed by Xeneta. At approximately 2.30am (Sanaa/Red Sea...
Steel cut for Boskalis’ new 31,000 m3 dredger
Construction of Boskalis' new 31,000 m3 trailing suction hopper dredger kicked off with the steel cutting at the Royal IHC yard last week. The vessel will be built in Krimpen aan den IJssel, the Netherlands, over the next few years. The new vessel will be one of the...
Jumbo lands FPSO mooring pre-installation contract
Jumbo Offshore has been awarded a contract by MODEC Guyana Inc. for the pre-installation of the mooring spread of the FPSO Errea Wittu, which will be located offshore Guyana. The FPSO, the name of which means "abundance", will have the capacity to store 2 million...
Hydrogen boat with printed circuit board fuel cell passes trials
Bramble Energy in the UK has launched the world’s first hydrogen-electric boat powered by a printed circuit board fuel cell (PCBFC). Next step is developing the PCBFC systems for wider maritime applications. As the lead partner in the HyTime project working alongside...
IRO and NMT explore merger
IRO, the association of Dutch suppliers in the offshore energy industry, and Netherlands Maritime Technology (NMT), trade organisation for the Dutch maritime manufacturing industry, are investigating a possible merger. IRO (which once stood for Industrial Council for...
‘Record deliveries could push container fleet above 30 million TEU in 2024’
As 2023 saw a relatively low level of container ship recycling, new ships entering the fleet caused an eight per cent rise in the capacity of the container fleet, states BIMCO in its latest "Shipping number of the week". This is the fastest growth registered since...
Wagenborg’s third EasyMax arrives in home port
Royal Wagenborg's third EasyMax, under construction at Royal Niestern Sander as yard number 852, has salt water under the keel for the first time after being transported from the shipyard to its home port of Delfzijl. With the EasyMax, Wagenborg has a relatively large...
MAN to power Boskalis’ new dredger
Boskalis has contracted MAN Energy Solutions for three MAN 49/60 engines for its new 31,000-m3 trailing suction hopper dredger to be built by Royal IHC. It is the first marine application of the most powerful MAN medium-speed engine. Each engine will come accompanied...
Piracy incidents on the rise in 2023
The annual Piracy and Armed Robbery Report of the ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) raises concern over the first successful Somali based hijacking since 2017. Both the number of maritime piracy and armed robbery incidents and the number of crew kidnappings...
VIDEO: First of Dutch navy’s updated landing craft launched
The Royal Netherlands Navy's first retrofitted Landing Craft Utility ship (LCU) was launched on 9 January. This took place at De Haas Shipyards in Rotterdam, which is carrying out the so-called midlife upgrade for all five LCUs. The upgrade will allow the vessels to...
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