Boskalis, Van Oord land large Swedish dredging project
Boskalis and Van Oord have been awarded a large dredging contract as part of the Malmporten Project in the Port of Luleå, Sweden. The contract has a total value of approximately EUR 500 million, split equally between Boskalis and Van Oord. The Swedish Maritime...
Petrobras has platform recycled in Brazil for the first time
Petrobras has concluded the auction for the sale and sustainable recycling of the P-32 platform. The winning company was Gerdau SA, in partnership with the Ecovix shipyard. It is believed to be the first platform recycling project in Brazil. The P-32 platform is one...
Maritime teaching programmes are being modernised across Europe
Maritime education is facing major challenges. Rapidly changing technologies on the ships, digital transformation, and the need for greening vessels, demand new future-proof teaching programmes. To attract enough students again, the maritime sector must also offer...
How Aurelia wants to cut emissions of Carisbrooke’s Vectis Pride
Aurelia has collaborated with Carisbrooke Shipping to implement new technologies that reduce SOX, NOX and CO2 emissions while maintaining the payload as much as possible. For this purpose, Aurelia prepared a technical proposal for the Vectis Pride, which includes...
MI publishes first complete guide to methanol as a marine fuel
The Methanol Institute (MI) has published the first comprehensive guide to methanol as a marine fuel. As the shipping industry continues its transition towards net carbon neutral operations, owners are increasingly choosing methanol as a fuel to reduce emissions in...
Boka Vanguard completes first decommissioning project
Boskalis’ largest semi-submersible heavy transport vessel was part of a major marine decommissioning project for the first time. The Boka Vanguard picked up a floating production unit (FPU) off the West African coast and delivered it at a ship recycling facility in...
Alewijnse supplies electrical engineering and automation for KNRM rescue boats
Alewijnse will provide the advanced electrical engineering and automation for three more Van Wijk class rescue boats. The boats are to join the fleet of the Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution (KNRM). The vessels will be built at Dutch shipyard Dok en Scheepsbouw...
IMB warns of resurgence of piracy in Gulf of Guinea
The ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has raised concern on the resurgence of reported incidents in the Gulf of Guinea waters and the increase in incidents in the Singapore Straits in its mid-year report for 2023. The report was released on 11 July. 65 incidents...
Wärtsilä Ammonia Release Mitigation System receives AiP from DNV
Wärtsilä's Ammonia Release Mitigation System has received Approval in Principle (AiP) from classification society DNV. The AiP covers its use on ships fuelled by ammonia with the DNV class notation gas fuelled ammonia or on gas tankers fuelled by ammonia with the DNV...
Language pilots sidelined bridge team during grounding of Ever Given
Although bad weather conditions played a role in the grounding of the container ship Ever Given, the investigation report published by the Panama Maritime Authority also exposes other issues. Such as the pilots speaking Arabic, thereby sidelining the bridge team, who...
First Groot Ship Design 5200XL ship christened
On 10 July, the first vessel of the Groot Ship Design 5200XL series, MV JSP Lᴓjt, was christened in Germany. The vessel is a joint development of Toepfer Transport, Groot Ship Design, Lubeca Marine Germany and Jebsen Shipping Partners. More than twenty units of this...
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