Svanehoj acquires Dutch pump specialist H&K Services
Marine pump specialist Svanehoj is expanding its marine service and aftersales business in the Benelux region by acquiring H&K Services BV. This Dutch company specialises in the service and repair of marine fuel and cargo gas pumps. The acquisition of H&K...
Ocean Grazer founder wins Engineer of the Year Award
Marijn van Rooij, co-founder and technical director of Ocean Grazer, has won the Royal Institute of Engineers' (KIVI) Engineer of the Year 2022 award. His company developed the Ocean Battery, a technology to store energy on the seabed. The announcement by KIVI took...
P&O Ferries lays off 800 British seafarers with immediate effect
After making a £ 100 million loss year on year, P&O Ferries says its survival depends on making swift and significant changes. As a result, 800 seafarers, which Nautilus International says are British workers, lose their jobs with immediate effect. The maritime...
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[VIDEO] Heerema’s offshore vessels plug into Europe’s largest shore power installation in Rotterdam
Heerema Marine Contractors’ largest crane vessels, the Sleipnir and Thialf, have officially switched from using their engines to using shore power while in port. The commissioning of the Shore Power project is the result of a partnership between Eneco, the Port of...
Delivery of Seaway Alfa Lift suffers one year delay after crane accident
Although Seaway 7's new offshore wind turbine foundation installation vessel Seaway Alfa Lift already went on sea trials in early January, it is not expected to enter service this year. The cause is an accident with the A-frame of the 3000-tonne Liebherr crane back in...
Royal Bodewes and Passer SIDC take over former De Hoop Shipyard in Foxhol
Dutch shipyard Royal Bodewes and production company Passer SIDC from Lithuania have acquired the former De Hoop Shipyard in Foxhol, the Netherlands. De Hoop stopped building ships there in 2017 and since then rented out the location to shipyards and steel construction...
ECSA backs EU waste shipment shift for recycling EU-flagged ships in Asia
The European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA) is throwing its weight behind a controversial proposed amendment to the EU’s Waste Shipment Regulation that would effectively make it possible to recycle EU-flagged ships at non-OECD shipbreaking facilities in...
Container ship Ever Forward still grounded in Chesapeake Bay
The US Coast Guard is still working on a plan to safely refloat the 11,850 TEU container ship Ever Forward. The vessel grounded after leaving Baltimore on Sunday. There are no reports of injuries, pollution, or damage to the vessel as a result of the grounding. The...
Sea Machines obtains first Bureau Veritas type approval for wireless remote helm control systems
Bureau Veritas has granted type approval to Sea Machines' commercial wireless remote-control helm system. It means that the wireless control technology embedded in both Sea Machines’ systems has undergone rigorous third-party testing and certification to meet the...
From being anchored to anchorage disaster movie in fifteen minutes
In tight anchorages and strong currents, main engines should always be on standby and the vessel’s position checked as if the vessel is underway. The Nautical Institute gives this advice in its latest Mars Report in which a vessel went from being anchored to a...
Van Oord orders unmanned, autonomous offshore survey vessel with Demcon
Van Oord has placed a new order with Demcon unmanned systems, this time for an unmanned, autonomously sailing offshore platform. The electric vessel is suitable for challenging offshore conditions and weeks of survey operations at sea and was tailor-made to fit Van...
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