Slight decline throughput Port of Rotterdam
Throughput at the port of Rotterdam fell slightly by 0.7 per cent in the first quarter of 2026 compared with the same period last year. The decline is mainly due to a reduction in the throughput of agribulk, coal, other liquid bulk and breakbulk. The throughput of...
Ferry Bryggen wins KNVTS Ship of the Year Award
The ferry Bryggen has won the KNVTS Ship of the Year Award 2021 for its innovative, fully electric and environmentally friendly design that is also efficient in operation and economically competitive. Shipbuilder Damen Shipyards achieved the ship’s sustainable...
Superyacht Phi leaves Royal Huisman yard for sea trials
Royal Huisman project 403, Phi, has left the shipyard’s newbuild facilities in Vollenhove for Royal Huisman Amsterdam to start sea trials. Developed and constructed below 500GT, 58.5-metre Phi is by far the longest motoryacht in this category, based on current...
MIT and AMS Institute to trial autonomous Roboat on Amsterdam Canals
Research project Roboat has developed autonomy for two full-scale prototypes. After five years of R&D, the project by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions is ready for further pilots. Roboat started with...
Thecla Bodewes Shipyards to build four 7000-DWT vessels for Vertom
Thecla Bodewes Shipyards has won an order for building and delivery of four 7000-DWT diesel-electric multi-purpose dry cargo vessels for Vertom. The keel laying took place at the yard in Kampen, the Netherlands, on 29 October with delivery of the vessels expected in...
Wout Janssens succeeds Michael Kahn as CEO of heavy lift shipping company Jumbo
After thirty years as the CEO of Jumbo, Michael Kahn has decided to take on a new responsibility as Supervisory Board Director of the company. Jumbo’s most recent COO, Wout Janssens, has taken up the helm to become the company's new CEO. Over the years, Kahn has...
What is your plan if a person falls into the water from the pilot ladder?
In its latest Mars Report, The Nautical Institute describes an incident in which a pilot fell into the water and was rescued by the chief officer who jumped in after him. Although there was a happy ending in this case, the Institute stresses jumping into the water...
Zim Kingston has lost 109 containers instead for 40
With the fire under control, the Zim Kingston crew were able to safely access the container bays on the ship. The number of containers that went overboard has subsequently been adjusted to 109 instead of the forty reported earlier. The number of containers with...
Shipyard De Hoop declared bankrupt
Shipyard De Hoop Lobith BV in Tolkamer, the Netherlands, was declared bankrupt by the District Court in the Dutch province of Gelderland on 26 October. The shipyard was one of the oldest in the Netherlands and employed 97 people. It specialised in building cruise...
2022 contract award for replacement of Dutch submarines not feasible
The Dutch Government is in talks with three candidate shipyards about the replacement of the Walrus class submarines. This process has so far not delivered the required result and will lead to 'a substantial adjustment of the current planning', says Dutch Minister of...
‘Time to stop sidestepping crabbing talk with captains’
Fresh crabbing simulations from Foreship suggest that it takes more than machine learning to perfect the art of docking and undocking. However, new computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis can optimise ship equipment specifications, safety and operational...
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