Feadship performs major refit of 25-year old yacht Halcyon
25 years after it was launched by Feadship as Northern Light, the 46.90-metre yacht Halcyon has undergone one of the most comprehensive rebuild programmes undertaken by Feadship Refit & Services in recent years. Arriving at Kaag in May 2025, the yacht was...
YSA Design joins zero-emission cruise ship project
Northern Xplorer has already signed a Letter of Intent with Portugal’s West Sea shipyard to build a first 140-metre-long zero-emission cruise ship powered by hydrogen fuel cells and batteries. Now, YSA Design has joined the project and will deliver the general...
Aft ship of X-Press Pearl wreck removed from sea floor
X-Press Feeders, former operators of the fire-stricken container ship X-Press Pearl, report that the aft section of the wreck was raised from the sea floor and placed aboard the semi-submersible Fan Zhou 10 in January. The wreck section will be dismantled at a...
HPC investigates hydrogen bunker station on Helgoland
The municipality of Helgoland has commissioned Hamburg Port Consulting (HPC) to carry out a concept study for the construction of a hydrogen bunker station on the deep-sea island. HPC will investigate the commercial and infrastructural suitability of the island for H2...
Damen’s FCS Aqua Helix heads to Brazil
A two-year contract with Compagnie Maritime Monégasque (CMM) takes Damen Shipyards' Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) 7011 Aqua Helix to Brazil. The vessel will transport personnel to and from offshore platforms in support of an oil & gas decommissioning project. The Aqua...
Dutch government boosts shore power facilities
Shore power will become available for docked ships at nine locations in the Netherlands in the coming years. The Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management has made a 15-million-euro subsidy available to this end. The subsidy is part of the Ministry's temporary...
Ongoing research at universities of applied sciences – Working man blues
In the field of higher education, conventionally a distinction was made between polytechnicals (in Dutch: hbo’s) on the one hand, and research universities on the other. The first with the single task of providing vocational education, while the latter offers academic...
Wagenborg to convert another platform supply vessel
Wagenborg Offshore has signed a long-term agreement with an energy major for the deployment of a multi-purpose offshore vessel. For this purpose, a platform supply vessel will be converted at Royal Niestern Sander. The multi-purpose offshore vessel will support subsea...
VIDEO: Van Oord installs final monopile at Hollandse Kust Noord
Van Oord installed the final monopile for CrossWind’s Hollandse Kust Noord wind farm this week, bringing the total to seventy. The offshore wind farm is located 18.5 kilometres off the coast of the Netherlands, near the seaside resort of Egmond aan Zee. Once finished,...
NOV introduces Modular Service and Operations Vessel concept
The NOV-designed Modular Service and Operations Vessel (MSOV) is a novel and versatile concept to optimise offshore wind farm operations and maintenance. The vessel has been designed with wind farms further offshore and in deeper waters in mind. These types of wind...
Wärtsilä performs first ever inline shaft generator retrofit
Wärtsilä has retrofitted an inline shaft generator system on the Berge Toubkal, a cape-size bulk carrier of Singapore-based Berge Bulk. This is the marine industry’s first-ever shaft generator retrofit. Shaft generator systems on board ships are driven by the main...
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