Two Damen SAR vessels enter service with Brazilian Navy
On 18 May, the Brazilian Navy held an inauguration ceremony for the LSAR 02, a Damen Search and Rescue (SAR) Vessel 1605 in Vitória. The event follows a similar ceremony in Rio de Janeiro on 27 April to mark the entry into service of the LSAR 01. Damen delivered the...
Does your pilot ladder meet requirements?
The US Coast Guard issued a Safety Alert after someone died after falling from a pilot ladder. Modifications to the pilot ladder were found that may have contributed to the accident. The incident is also covered in The Nautical Institute's latest Mars Reports. The...
Cadeler to triple fleet with another hybrid jack-up order
Cadeler has ordered a second F-class jack-up vessel. With another three jack-ups already under construction, the company will soon triple its fleet from two to six. The global demand for offshore wind capacity and technological developments resulting in increasingly...
Niestern Sander to repair mv Helge that was damaged in collision
Last week, the mv Helge arrived at the repair yard of Royal Niestern Sander in Delfzijl. Here, the general cargo vessel, managed by MF Shipping in Delfzijl, will be repaired over the coming months. Following a collision with another vessel off Denmark, the ship...
Damen on TIME’s Best Inventions List 2022 with first electric tug
American TIME Magazine has placed Damen's first fully-electric harbour tug Sparky on its Best Inventions List 2022. As far as is known, this is the only Dutch invention on the list. The tug, an RSD 2513 design by Damen, is now deployed in the Ports of Auckland in New...
Dutch Ministry of Defence orders new navy tugboats
The Dutch Ministry of Defence is replacing the small tugboats of the Schelde class. The three new boats for the Royal Netherlands Navy are to be built by Stormer and will be fully electric. Stormer will deliver the boats in 2023 and 2024. Also read: Dutch Navy’s Van...
RINA to discuss scaling of decarbonisation solutions at Rotterdam conference
What will be your scalable solution for this decade? The Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) and Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping (MMMCZCS) have partnered to offer a conference that will provide a platform to discuss the scalability of...
NATO ships, including Dutch frigate Tromp, approached by Russian fighter jets
On the morning of November 17, two Russian fighter aircraft made an unsafe approach toward Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG1), which was conducting routine operations in the Baltic Sea, reports NATO. The Russian pilots failed to respond to standing query...
Ferus Smit launches first Ecobox XL Symphony Atlantic
Ferus Smit launched the Symphony Atlantic on Friday, 18 November in Leer, the Netherlands. It is the first vessel in a series of two that will be delivered to Symphony Shipping. The new Ecobox XL design has its focus on loading extra long items, such as wind turbine...
VIDEO: Is this what a floating city will look like?
Lazzarini Design has unveiled Pangeos, the terayacht. The Pangeos is an itinerant floating city, comprising various hotels, shopping centres, parks, ship and aircraft ports, and all other facilities needed to house up to 60,000 people in the middle of the sea. The...
Huisman wins Japan’s first Monopile Gripper order
TOA Corporation and Obayashi in Japan has contracted Huisman for the delivery of a state-of-the-art Monopile Gripper. The gripper allows TOA and Obayashi to upend and install monopiles without using a separate upending bucket, improving safety and efficiency of...
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