Boskalis transports mega dry dock to Bahamas
In Qingdao, China, Boskalis executed the float‑on of Grand Bahama Shipyard Limited's brand‑new floating dry dock Lucayan. With an impressive length of 413 metres and a width of 85 metres, Lucayan is truly mega. Does Boskalis have a heavy marine transport vessel in its...
Owner wants to widen southern part of the Suez Canal
The owner and operator of the Suez Canal wants to widen the southern part of the shipping route. The chairman of the state-owned company announced this in a televised speech. Earlier this year, the container ship Ever Given ran aground and blocked the southern part of...
Concordia Damen’s Parsifal tankers are ready for low water levels
Concordia Damen Shipbuilding BV spent approximately eighteen months developing the major new inland shipping project “Parsifal”. The project involves the construction of a series of forty inland navigation tankers. The ships have an environmentally friendly design and...
Norwegian Maritime Authority finds holes in ballast tanks Eemslift Hendrika, DSB launches investigation
Shifting cargo in the Eemslift Hendrika's hold has caused extensive internal damage, according to a report from the Norwegian Maritime Authority. The Authority has found an indentation of four metres long and several holes in the ship's ballast tanks. Today, the Dutch...
Suez Canal: Container ship Ever Given can leave for 600 million dollars
The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has reduced its claim against Japanese shipowner Shoei Kisen Kaisha, owner of the Ever Given from USD 916 million to USD 600 million. According to lawyers and maritime experts, the original claim is out of all proportion to the actual...
Allseas deploys smallest and largest vessel for Danish pipe-lay project
The smallest and largest vessel in Allseas’ fleet will work together on the installation of the 105-kilometre-long 32-inch Baltic Pipe in Danish waters. The barge Tog Mor will initiate pipe-lay with a 1100-metre pull-in and extend the pipeline four kilometres out to...
Hutchison becomes the new owner of Rotterdam container terminal APMTR
Rotterdam container terminal APM Terminals Rotterdam (APMTR) in the Port of Rotterdam has a new owner. Hutchison Ports Netherlands announced that it was acquiring the terminal from the Danish company Maersk. The parties did not disclose any financial details....
New offshore access system completes sea trials
Over the past three weeks, Eagle-Access has tested its new access system on the VOS Star at the Danish offshore wind farm Horns Rev.2. Around 150 people were transferred and about 300 transfers with and without cargo were conducted. The system in the stand-alone...
200-metre arch bridge sails through Rotterdam city centre
An arch bridge measuring two hundred metres long, twenty metres wide and forty metres high sailed through the centre of Rotterdam in the night from Sunday to Monday. The object is on its way to the Maasvlakte, where it will be placed as a temporary bridge next to the...
Billion-euro subsidy brings CO2 storage in the North Sea a step closer
The mega project Porthos to store CO2 from industry in the port of Rotterdam in an empty gas field in the North Sea has come a step closer. The companies involved in the project have been granted a subsidy that could amount to over 2 billion euros. This was confirmed...
Rotterdam almost done with ‘armada’ of ships after Suez Canal blockage
Virtually all container ships en route to Rotterdam that were stuck in the Suez Canal in March have now called at the port. In total, the port of Rotterdam expected 64 ships to be stuck in traffic. Of this "Suez armada", 54 ships have arrived and departed, two are now...
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