VIDEO: Offshore vessel conversion nears completion
Holland Shipyards Group, Bakker Sliedrecht and Chevalier Floatels are working on the transformation of an unfinished well intervention vessel. The vessel was originally built in Spain, but is now being converted into an offshore construction vessel. The conversion is...
European shipowners support EU proposal to make operators pay for EU ETS
The European Parliament’s Rapporteur on the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), MEP Peter Liese, wants commercial operators to pay for the costs of the ETS. He also wants revenues of shipping allowances allocated to a sector-dedicated fund. The European Community...
MOL trials autonomous sailing and mooring with coastal container ship
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has concluded a trial of unmanned ship operation from port to port with a coastal container ship. The Mikage sailed from Tsuruga Port to Sakai Port in Japan. A berthing/unberthing support sensor was used for autonomous mooring and a drone...
Dutch Navy charters roll-on, roll-off ship
The Dutch Ministry of Defence will charter a medium roll-on, roll-off (RoRo) ship for the next ten years. This will provide the Royal Netherlands Navy with permanent strategic sea transport. The contract with the shipping company has been signed and the ship will be...
EcoClipper purchases its first sail cargo vessel
EcoClipper Coöperatie has purchased the Dutch Klipper De Tukker to establish sustainable shipping on the North Sea. It is the first vessel to join the EcoClipper fleet. The vessel will require a retrofit and will begin providing trade and passenger travel under sail...
Van Oord’s new installation vessel to be equipped with Wärtsilä’s first newbuild methanol engines
Wärtsilä has received its first order for newbuild methanol-fuelled engines. A new offshore installation vessel being built for Dutch contracting company Van Oord at Yantai CIMC Raffles shipyard in China will be powered by five Wärtsilä 32 engines capable of operating...
What the Damen-built icebreaker Nuyina is up to in Antarctica
Australia's new icebreaking research vessel RSV Nuyina, built by Damen Shipyards, has almost completed its first five-week voyage to Antarctica. In addition to refuelling a research station and transporting equipment, the ship caught its first krill, tested the...
Heerema to transport and install six jackets for McDermott
Heerema Marine Contractors has won a contract from McDermott to transport and install six large jackets within Saudi Aramco’s Marjan Increment program. The jackets weigh between 4500 to 6700 metric tonnes with a maximum footprint of 90 x 52 metres. Installation vessel...
KVNR: European carbon pricing proposal ineffective
Last week, NGO Transport & Environment said EU plans for carbon pricing for shipping left too many loopholes, which would leave almost 26 million tonnes of CO2 unaffected. The Royal Association of Netherlands Shipowners (KNVR) now says it agrees with this finding...
Damen signs Erma First to supply world’s smallest ballast water treatment system
Damen has signed its first contract with Erma First. The Greek company will be supplying its oneTANK, which is the world’s smallest ballast water treatment system. As oneTANK uses chemical injection methods to clean ships’ ballast water, it is an expansion of Damen’s...
Survitec redesigns fire system for crewless operation on board Yara Birkeland
The Yara Birkeland is to become the world’s first fully autonomous container ship. The ground-breaking vessel, which deployed on its maiden manned voyage in November, operates an automatic and remotely operated fire system designed and commissioned by survival...
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