DEME orders dredger ready for methanol and autonomous ops
DEME has ordered a new 22,000-m3 trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD), which is to strengthen its long-term competitiveness in capital and maintenance dredging, land reclamation, and offshore seabed preparation. The new vessel will combine a structurally lower cost...
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Expedition cruise ship Ocean Explorer grounds off Greenland [UPDATED]
The expedition cruise ship Ocean Explorer ran aground in Alpefjord, in the national park in Northeast Greenland, on Monday afternoon. The Danish Joint Arctic Command reports a first refloat attempt has failed. On Monday afternoon, 11 September, West Greenlandic time,...
Heerema installs west Alpha topside for TenneT
With the help of Heerema Marine Contractors' crane vessel Thialf, the superstructure (topside) for the offshore transformer platform Hollandse Kust (west Alpha) was successfully placed on the jacket. The topside is located some 50 kilometres off the coast of Egmond...
How MARIN verifies Tetrahedron’s new tag line system
For the past two years, MARIN has supported Dutch startup Tetrahedron to design, verify and improve the performance of an innovative tag line system applied on its novel crane. The Tetrahedron crane was winner of the 2020 Offshore Wind Innovators Award. The...
Paltry PPU position predictor leads to grounding
GPS "smoothing" can make a portable pilotage unit (PPU) less accurate. This was one of the contributory factors in a vessel grounding discussed in The Nautical Institute's latest Mars Report. The Nautical Institute gathers reports of maritime accidents and...
Concordia Damen to deliver new type of river pusher to Girona
Paraguayan shipowner and operator Girona S.A. – Rio Sur Transporte y Logistica has contracted Dutch inland shipping construction yard Concordia Damen to build a CDS4115 Shallow Draught 5400 HP River Pusher. The pusher has been specifically designed for local...
Roll Group and Hebetec present new offshore wind farm load-out solution
Roll Group and Hebetec Engineering AG have revealed their shared patented solution for offshore wind farm load-outs during the SPE Offshore exhibition in Aberdeen. This solution was developed to provide efficient and cost-effective solutions to logistical challenges...
Econowind to build a VentoFoil a day by 2027
Dutch company Econowind builds "VentoFoils" to reduce ships' fuel consumption by up to thirty per cent. The Investment and Development Agency for the Northern Netherlands (NOM) and Horizon Flevoland are investing in the scale-up to reach a production of one VentoFoil...
Ecowende and Van Oord to build ecological wind farm
Ecowende and Van Oord will collaborate on the construction of the offshore wind farm on Hollandse Kust (west) lot VI. This will be the most ecological wind farm to date, with minimal impact on the natural habitat of birds, bats and marine mammals, and with a thriving...
MOL invests in Dutch tilting floating wind turbines
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) will invest in the floating wind technology start-up, TouchWind. The Dutch company is developing a low-cost tilting angled one-piece rotor wind turbine. TouchWind's tilting wind turbine is expected to reduce wind interference between...
VIDEO: Van Oord christens two new fleet additions in one day
On Saturday, 9 September, Van Oord celebrated adding a new hopper dredger, the Vox Alexia, and a new cable-layer, the Calypso, to its fleet. Her Royal Highness Princess Alexia of the Netherlands attended to christen her namesake. The christening ceremony of both...
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