Record number of visitors for Seawork 2026
Advertorial – Europe's leading commercial marine and workboat exhibition, Seawork, closes its doors on another landmark year, welcoming record numbers of visitors and a global community of maritime professionals to Southampton's Mayflower Park. Seawork 2026 has...
The winds of change: One zero-emission dilemma for shipping solved?
We will look back on the last couple of years as being an extraordinary time in the shipping industry, with a pandemic, war in Europe, a global food and energy crisis, logistics disruption, inflation and a swathe of extreme weather events. What of the positives in...
Still unclear who is behind Nordstream sabotage
Swedish public prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist, who is in charge of the ongoing investigation concerning the detonations at pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2, states that the investigation continues, but that it is a complicated case to investigate. Consequently, the...
Data entry error results in car carrier heeling over
Car carrier stability is a delicate matter, so officers need to be well-trained in the use of loading computers, warns The Nautical Insititute in its latest Mars Report. In this report, a data entry error resulted in a heel of 60° in less than a minute. The Nautical...
Future-fuel ready engines for new Erik Thun tankers
Wärtsilä will supply future-fuel ready engines for four new 7999-DWT chemical tankers being built for Swedish fleet owner Erik Thun. The ships will be constructed at the Ferus Smit shipyard in the Netherlands. The vessels will operate with the Wärtsilä 25 engine, the...
Oil leak capping bags installed on Princess Empress wreck
RDC Reield Marine Services, owners of the sunken tanker Princess Empress, report that specialised oil leak capping bags have successfully been installed on areas of the wreck. A remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) operated by the Japanese salvage vessel Shin Nichi Maru...
Bawat and Damen in joint venture for ballast water treatment
Bawat Water Technologies and Damen Green Solutions intensify their collaboration in the field of ballast water treatment systems with the signing of a Term Sheet to establish a joint venture. This will merge Damen's InvaSave programme with Bawat technology, for the...
In pictures: Heerema installs 24 turbines using floating installation method
The installation of 24 turbines for Parkwind’s Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm has been completed. This marks the end of the first installation campaign of the wind farm using the revolutionary floating Rotor Nacelle Assembly (RNA) method developed together with...
Norled deploys first ferry operating on liquid hydrogen
On 31 March, the MF Hydra was put into operation running on zero-emission liquid hydrogen. In addition to the major technology development, a great deal of work has been done to develop rules and regulations to enable Norwegian passenger ships to run on hydrogen. In...
Corroded extinguisher proves fatal
Condemned material should be discarded, not used for demonstration purposes. The Nautical Institute gives this warning in its latest Mars Report in which a condemned fire extinguisher caused a fatal accident. The Nautical Institute gathers reports of maritime...
Dutch Defence reaches agreement with Damen and Thales for ASW frigates
The Dutch Ministry of Defence has reached an agreement with Damen and Thales Netherlands for four new Anti Submarine Warfare frigates and revealed what the new ships will be capable of. Two will be built for the Royal Netherlands Navy, two for the Belgian Navy. The...
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