‘Global order book hits seventeen-year high’
In this week’s “Shipping Number of the Week” from BIMCO, Shipping Analysis Manager, Filipe Gouveia, looks at the global shipping order book which has reached a seventeen-year high. This is boosted by higher newbuilding contracting throughout the 2020s and most...
Lenten Scheepvaart brings in Concordia Damen to help build inland hydrogen vessel
Concordia Damen has joined Lenten Scheepvaart to build the first inland navigation vessel in the Netherlands that will sail entirely on hydrogen. The vessel, to be named MV Antonie, will be 135 metres long, weigh 3700 tonnes and boast fuel cell propulsion. The Antonie...
Roll Group to monitor fleet performance with Digital Twin
We4Sea and Inmarsat have secured the fleet-wide uptake of We4Sea’s web-based vessel performance monitoring service with the Roll Group. The heavy-lift shipowner placed the order after having trialled the cloud-based ship performance management tool. Dutch performance...
BMA: 87 per cent of seafarers still to receive a first vaccine
According to the Seafarer Covid-19 Welfare Survey by the Bahamas Maritime Authority (BMA) 87 per cent of seafarers are still waiting for a jab. Of the respondents to date, 86 per cent would be willing to have the vaccine if offered and 65 per cent would feel safer if...
Pioneering Spirit lays over five kilometres of Baltic gas pipeline a day
According to Allseas, daily production rates on the Pioneering Spirit exceed expectation with the vessel able to install more than five kilometres of the Baltic gas pipeline every day. The 105-kilometre-long 32-inch Baltic Pipe is being installed in Danish waters....
Damen Shipyards Galati lays keel of new Dutch Combat Support Ship
Damen Shipyards Galati has performed the keel-laying ceremony on the Combat Support Ship (CSS) Den Helder. This marks an important milestone in the construction of this new supply ship for the Royal Netherlands Navy. The keel laying ceremony was performed by the...
Indonesia stops salvage of sunken submarine
The Indonesian Navy has ended its operation to recover submarine KRI Nanggala-402. It has proved impossible to bring the parts of the submarine, which lie in 840-metre-deep water, to the surface. The vessel sank off the island of Bali in April, resulting in the deaths...
Burnt out ship X-Press Pearl has partially sunk off the coast of Sri Lanka
A salvage attempt of the burnt-out cargo ship X-Press Pearl has failed and it has now partly sunk off the coast of Sri Lanka. The damage to the environment caused by the burning and leaking chemicals and plastic is enormous, according to the navy. But leaking oil,...
Allseas’ deepsea mining efforts intensify
With the announcement in May 2019 to form a strategic partnership with DeepGreen, Allseas made its first tentative steps into the deepsea mining industry. Ten months later, a former drill ship was acquired to convert into a collection vessel for polymetallic nodules....
Dutch Safety Board: Structural solutions needed for risks beam trawlers
The Dutch Safety Board has found that asymmetric loading conditions on beam trawlers with a length of less than 24 metres can rapidly compromise vessel stability. It comes to this conclusion after investigating the capsizing of two trawlers in 2019 and 2020...
Wärtsilä to develop autonomous, zero-emission barge for Port of Rotterdam
As part of an international alliance headed by the Port of Rotterdam Authority, Wärtsilä seeks to demonstrate a commercially viable autonomous intra-port inter-terminal container shuttle. The barge will feature electric propulsion supplied through interchangeable...
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