Fatigue leads to fishing vessel grounding
Never underestimate the performance inhibiting power of fatigue warns The Nautical Institute in a new Mars Report. In the incident described, a fishing vessel grounded while making over 7 knots after the skipper had fallen asleep on the bridge. The Nautical Institute...
Norwegian Coast Guard releases new videos of Eemslift Hendrika adrift
Norwegian Coast Guard vessel Sortland is now at the Eemslift Hendrika, which has been adrift since Monday evening. A surveillance aircraft has also shot new footage of the ship showing that the work boat that was on deck has indeed fallen off. The risk of the ship...
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[VIDEO] Pioneering Spirit’s new jacket lift system nears completion
Allseas is equipping its mega heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit with a second unique lift system. It is capable of removing and installing complete offshore jackets weighing up to 20,000 tonnes in one go. After several months of installation works, the sheer size of...
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Smit Salvage team en route to listing Eemslift Hendrika [UPDATE]
Boskalis has confirmed that its subsidiary Smit Salvage has been hired to salvage the Eemslift Hendrika, which is currently adrift without a crew off the coast of Norway. A salvage team will be deployed as soon as possible by helicopter to board the abandoned ship. A...
‘Amasus Shipping hires Smit Salvage to rescue Eemslift Hendrika’
Norwegian public broadcasting company NRK reports Smit Salvage has been hired to aid in the salvage of the Eemslift Hendrika, which is currently adrift off the Norwegian coast. In the meantime, a Norwegian Coast Guard vessel is on its way to the ship and will try to...
IHC receives approval in principle for hydrogen-fuelled dredger
Royal IHC has received an approval in principle (AiP) from classification society Bureau Veritas for the design of a hydrogen-fuelled trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD). In an innovation partnership with Rijkswaterstaat, the shipyard is exploring a new type of...
[VIDEO] Amasus ship carrying project cargo adrift off Norway [UPDATE]
A multi-purpose vessel sailing under the Dutch flag ran into trouble off Norway on 5 April. It concerns the Eemslift Hendrika co-owned by Amasus Shipping in Delfzijl, the Netherlands. The cargo on board has shifted and the ship is listing. A rescue helicopter has...
Suez Canal traffic jam caused by grounded ship Ever Given resolved
The last ships stranded due to the Suez Canal blockade passed the important waterway on Saturday 3 April. The Egyptian state company Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has announced this. The Suez Canal was open for traffic again since Monday after the huge container ship...
Personnel Van Oord protest against Covid schedules for seafarers
Personnel of dredging and offshore company Van Oord have rebelled against the Covid-19 schedule that the company still unilaterally imposes on crews on its ships. This means that they spend six weeks on a ship in Northwest Europe instead of the usual one or two weeks,...
Gdańsk Remontowa will repair offshore installation vessel Orion I
After the accident with its 5000-tonne crane during the load test in May 2020, DEME's new offshore installation vessel Orion 1 as well as its crane suffered considerable damage. In September, Liebherr stated it would repair the crane. It has now been revealed that the...
Damen expands hopper dredger portfolio
Damen Shipyards has extended its trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) offering. The full TSHD range now covers hopper volumes from 650 to 5000 m3 and includes both hopper dredgers for port maintenance and multi-purpose dredgers. All designs have a number of core...
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