Master and OOW suspended after Thamesborg grounding
The Maritime Disciplinary Court of the Netherlands has suspended the certificates of competency of both the master and chief officer of the Dutch cargo vessel Thamesborg. This follows the vessel's grounding in the Franklin Strait, part of Canada's Northwest Passage,...
First CO2 storage project in the Netherlands kicks off
Porthos has taken a final investment decision to develop the first major CO2 transport and storage system in the Netherlands. In 2024, construction will begin in Rotterdam, with the Porthos system expected to be operational by 2026. The Porthos infrastructure requires...
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Four missing, one dead after collision in the German Bight [UPDATED]
At around 5 am Tuesday morning (24 October), a collision occurred in the German Bight involving the cargo ships Polesie and Verity. The Verity has sunk after the collision. So far there has been one fatality and four people are still missing. The accident took place...
Imtech bankruptcy case finally reaches settlement
Eight years after the bankruptcy, the trustees and banks of Royal Imtech NV reached a settlement agreement on 23 October. In resolving a potentially complex dispute, lengthy and costly court proceedings have been avoided. Royal Imtech, a European technical services...
Damen Waterbus 2907 E3 lands Dutch Design Award
The Damen Waterbus 2907 E3 has received a Dutch Design Award (G100). The G100 represents the top 100 product designs in the Netherlands. Nominated solutions are judged by a panel of industrial design experts. Awards are given to products and solutions that are...
AiP for hydrogen-fuelled multi-purpose vessel
ClassNK has issued an approval in principle (AiP) for a parcel layout concept for a hydrogen-fuelled multi-purpose vessel. It is the world’s first AiP for a ship equipped with a large low-speed two-stroke hydrogen-fuelled engine as the main propulsion engine. The ship...
Rotterdam throughput drops by 6.0% in first three quarters
In the first nine months of 2023, there was six per cent less throughput in the port of Rotterdam: 329.9 million tonnes compared to 351.0 million tonnes in the same period in 2022. The decline was mainly related to the throughput of containers and coal. Throughput of...
VIDEO: Niestern Sander launches Wagenborg’s EasyMax 3
The EasyMax 3 was successfully launched at shipyard Royal Niestern Shipyard on 19 October. The new build is the successor of the award-winning Egbert Wagenborg and its sister Máxima. The EasyMax vessel type is the latest series in Wagenborg's fleet according to the...
Van Halteren delivers motion compensation control to Barge Master
Van Halteren Technologies Boxtel and Barge Master have been working together again on a new motion compensation solution: the BM-Heavy Feeder. Two of the new BM-Heavy Feeders are used to install wind turbines for the Vineyard Wind project in the US. Barge Master’s...
First new Dutch Mine Countermeasure Vessel hits the water
Amid great interest, the Vlissingen was launched on 19 October. It is the first new Mine Countermeasure Vessel for the Royal Netherlands Navy. The ceremony took place in Concarneau, France. The port city lies on the southern coast of Brittany, where the ship was...
WinGD to power Exmar LPG’s first ammonia-fuelled vessels
Swiss marine power company WinGD will deliver ammonia-fuelled X-DF-A engines for a series of two 46,000-m3 LPG/ammonia carriers. The vessels will be built for Exmar LPG BV, a joint venture of Exmar and Seapeak, at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard. The two 52-bore X52DF-A engines...
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