Dutch frigate De Ruyter deploys to the Indo-Pacific
HNLMS De Ruyter departed on Sunday with a crew of around 200 for the Indo-Pacific. The air defence and command frigate is equipped with an NH90 maritime helicopter. During the voyage, the ship will also contribute to EUNAVFOR operations in the Red Sea. To promote...
Drewry expects further rate rises during the summer
Drewry’s Multipurpose Time Charter Index increased to USD 8339 per day in May, representing a rise of 4.3 per cent compared to the 2.5 per cent rise seen in the previous month. The index is up 28 per cent since the start of the year and 46 per cent since May 2020....
Maersk wants CO2 tax of USD 150 on shipping fuel
Maersk's CEO Søren Skou believes there should be a hefty CO2 tax on fuel oil and other fossil shipping fuels to close the price gap with alternative fuels. He also believes the IMO should play a key role in 'securing production and availability of zero carbon fuels'....
Inland vessel Maas to be powered by hydrogen fuel cell system
Koedood Marine Group is supplying a fuel cell system to convert the inland container ship Maas to hydrogen for Future Proof Shipping (FPS). The FPS ship is expected to be completely powered by hydrogen by the end of this year. Koedood will build three fuel cell units...
Schram Shipping orders wind-assist installations from eConowind
Another company will conduct research with eConowind's Ventifoils. Schram Shipping has ordered two 16-metre-tall wind-assist units from the company. By the end of 2021, they will be retrofitted on the 89.9 x14 metres, 5097 DWT general cargo vessel MV Anna, built in...
Charter rates rise above USD 10,000
The charter rates continue their upward trend and have now broken through the 10,000-dollar barrier. While the rates are up 61 per cent year-on-year, shipping broker Toepfer Transport says the current levels do not represent record earnings but merely levels at which...
Dutch student wins award with visual communication method for heavy-lift vessels
Jan Douwe de Jong, master student at the Dutch Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz, has won an award for his research into improving communication during heavy-lift operations. He discovered that visual communication is a very valuable addition to communication by...
Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit removes Morecambe Bay topsides
The world's largest vessel Pioneering Spirit has completed the single-lift removal of the former DP3 gas production topsides from Spirit Energy’s Morecambe Bay development in the East Irish Sea. This follows the removal of the adjacent DP4 topsides and subsequent...
How to fight unfair competition in shipbuilding and dredging
European politics cannot be blamed of being blind to the future of the maritime sector anymore after it adopted the Opatija Declaration and set out its future outlook for EU waterborne transport. But is it enough to save the European shipbuilding and dredging industry...
Spain accedes to ship recycling convention
Spain is the latest country to accede to IMO's treaty for safe and environmentally-sound ship recycling – the Hong Kong Convention. It covers the design, construction, operation and maintenance of ships, and preparation for ship recycling in order to facilitate safe...
Nexans names its new cable laying vessel Nexans Aurora
The DP3 cable laying vessel Nexans Aurora was named at Ulstein Verft on 8 June 2021. The 149.9-metre-long and 31-metre-wide vessel boasts over 10,000 tonnes of cable load capacity and is fitted with state-of-the-art instruments for cable transport, installation, and...
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