Second dual-fuel methanol CSOV delivered to Acta Marine
Acta Marine has taken delivery of Acta Hercules, its latest Walk-to-Work (W2W) DP2 construction service operation vessel (CSOV). It was built at Tersan Shipyard in Turkey and is the second vessel in a series of four newbuilds. Acta Hercules represents a further step...
Shipping calls on EU to promote green hydrogen and ammonia over biofuels
The EU should promote the use of green hydrogen and ammonia by ships as part of its upcoming maritime fuel law, major shipping industry players and environmentalists have told the European Commission. They also say biofuels do not offer a sustainable alternative for...
Van Oord to protect UK coastline at Lydd
Van Oord has signed a contract with the Environment Agency to design and build a coastal defence scheme at Lydd, on the south Kent coast in the UK. Once completed it will help to protect this environmentally important area and the Ministry of Defence Lydd firing range...
Damen Shipyards readies new survey boat for handover to Dutch navy
Damen Shipyards Den Helder will soon handover the Expeditionary Survey Boat (ESB) Hydrograaf to the Royal Netherlands Navy. The Hydrograaf was built for a speed of at least 20 knots, with very low noise requirements and a maximum weight of only 24 tonnes. In...
North Sea wind farms could supply quarter of European seaweed demand
Europeans are eating more and more seaweed. At present, almost all seaweed in Europe comes from Asia and domestic cultivation is practically non-existent. By making use of offshore wind farms in the North Sea, locally cultivated seaweed could meet 25 per cent of...
Shipbuilder IHC sells Vuyk Engineering to Royal Doeksen
Royal IHC and Royal Doeksen have reached an agreement on the acquisition of all shares in Vuyk Engineering Rotterdam. The sale is part of IHC's major restructuring programme for which the company announced it would focus on its core activities. Other activities and...
Misapplication of force leads to crew member facial injury
'Proper training would include the execution of the task while under supervision.' The Nautical Institute gives this advice after a crew member on board a tanker suffered a facial injury due to not executing a task in the proper way. The Nautical Institute gathers...
Holland Shipyards to convert inland vessel to hydrogen propulsion
Holland Shipyards Group (HSG) will retrofit Future Proof Shipping's inland vessel Maas to a zero-emissions hydrogen propulsion system. After months of energy profiling, the 110 x 11.45-metre container ship will be retrofitted at the HSG yard in Hardinxveld throughout...
Israel points to Iran in oil spill case
Israel holds Iran responsible for the oil spill that stained beaches with a tar-like substance last month. Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel said the issue is being treated as a terrorist incident. Earlier in the day, she announced that the ship...
Record order book for dredging and offshore company Boskalis despite Covid-19
Dredging and maritime services provider Boskalis has a record amount of work in the pipeline despite the impact of Covid-19 on the company. The value of the order book of the company based in Papendrecht, the Netherlands stood at 5.3 billion euros at the end of last...
Study says anti-fouling is major source of marine microplastics pollution
Marine paints can be a major source of microplastics. In a new study, environmental geochemists of the University of Oldenburg say that ships leave a kind of "skid mark" in the water. They found that most of the plastic particles in water samples taken from the German...
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