Europe’s first CO2 carrier ready for Esbjerg after sea trials
The Carbon Destroyer 1, Europe’s first offshore DP2 CO2 carrier, has left its home port Delfzijl after completing two sea trials in the North Sea, writes Royal Wagenborg on its website. With these tests concluded, the vessel moves closer to its upcoming deployment to...
Boskalis to expand Marker Wadden with two new nature islands
Nature in the Markermeer lake in the Netherlands will be given a boost through the realisation of two new nature islands. On behalf of the Dutch Society for the Preservation of Nature (Natuurmonumenten) and Rijkswaterstaat, Boskalis will construct these islands in the...
Damen Shipyards Cape Town launches patrol vessel for South African Navy
Damen Shipyards Cape Town launched the first of three MultiMission Inshore Patrol Vessels (MMIPV) procured by ARMSCOR for the South African Navy (SAN) on 25 March. The vessels are to augment South Africa’s maritime security by enhancing the country’s capability to...
Two dredgers put to work to free container ship Ever Given
The Suez Canal Authority has deployed two dredgers to help free the container ship Ever Given, which grounded in the Suez Canal on Tuesday 23 March. It concern the cutter suction dredgers Tenth of Ramadan and Mashhour. The 1493-kW Tenth of Ramadan has been on site...
Thyssenkrupp to build six submarines for Norway and Germany
Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems has come to an agreement with the procurement authorities of Germany and Norway on the general conditions for the purchase of six Type 212 CD (Common Design) submarines. The German parliament is yet to approve the deal, but if it does...
Major container carriers consider re-routing ships around Africa
Container shipping companies A.P. Møller-Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd are considering rerouting their container ships, which would normally sail through the Suez Canal, via the Cape of Good Hope. The 400-metre container ship Ever Given ran aground across the important...
Boskalis: Duration of Suez Canal blockage still a big question mark
It is still not clear how long it will take to refloat the container ship that is blocking the Suez Canal. This was said by a spokesperson of Boskalis, which is helping to resolve the blockage through its subsidiary Smit Salvage. However, a plan of action to pull the...
Port congestion looms the longer the Ever Given is blocking the Suez Canal
The longer the blockage of the Suez Canal by container ship Ever Given lasts, the bigger the impact on international trade and logistics. The association of entrepreneurs evofenedex emphasises that the delay and the growing queues of waiting ships will put a lot of...
‘New, greener types of ships need a lot more R&D’
The greening of shipping needs much more R&D, not only in finding alternative fuels, but also for the design of completely new ship concepts. In his latest opinion piece, SWZ|Maritime’s editor-in-chief Antoon Oosting argues that for this R&D, a lot more...
SWZ|Maritime’s March issue: The comeback of sails in shipping
A couple of years ago practically nobody, except for some die-hard enthusiasts, would have believed that big cargo ships would use sails again for their propulsion. But with the necessity to ban climate-threatening fossil fuels from shipping, the use of sails, perhaps...
CEO Boskalis: Refloating container ship Ever Given can take days to weeks
While ten tugboats are still trying to free the container ship Ever Given, which grounded in the Suez Canal on Tuesday morning, Boskalis has sent a team to assist in the operation. In Dutch TV programme Nieuwsuur, Boskalis CEO Peter Berdowski said the operation could...
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