Heerema completes first jacket for Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm
Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) has completed the first of two jacket substructures for Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 Offshore Wind Farm. This first jacket, Link 01, stands 54 metres tall and will support one of the project’s offshore converter stations (OCSs). HFG was selected...
Svitzer reveals plans for world’s first fully remotely controlled tugboat
Svitzer A/S, Kongsberg Maritime and American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) have signed a deal to jointly develop the Recotug. This is to be the world’s first commercial tug to be fully operated from a remote operations centre on shore. While Svitzer is bringing the needed...
Israel hunts for ship that spilled oil and smeared beaches
Israel is searching for the ship responsible for a major oil spill that led the country to close all beaches along the Mediterranean Sea. Environment Minister Gila Gamliel says there is 'a more than reasonable chance' that the vessel in question can be identified....
‘The time to order offshore installation vessels is now’
Offshore installation vessels may soon be hard to come by. According to Alexander Fløtre, Vice President Offshore Wind at Rystad Energy, both offshore wind activity and offshore wind components will continue to grow. Additional vessels are needed by 2025 to prevent a...
Damen to cut 125 jobs at its Dutch repair yards
Damen Shipyards has announced a restructuring of its repair yards Damen Verolme Rotterdam and Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam. According to trade union CNV Vakmensen director Corina Hensen, 125 jobs will be lost with most redundancies affecting office staff. The...
Severe rolling causes Maersk Eindhoven to lose 260 containers
The Maersk Eindhoven experienced a loss of engine propulsion for three to four minutes while sailing 45 nautical miles off Northern Japan in heavy seas on February 17, 2021. The company has now revealed that the loss of manoeuvrability caused severe rolling with 260...
Netherlands involved in paying ransom to pirates
In 2018, the Dutch government was closely involved in paying the equivalent of 280,000 euros in ransom money to Nigerian pirates who were holding the crew of a Dutch cargo ship hostage. This is evident from an investigation by Dutch newspaper NRC. A senior Dutch...
Port of Rotterdam sees 2020 throughput fall by 6.9%
The Port of Rotterdam's throughput for 2020 fell by over 32 million tonnes or 6.9% from 469.4 to 436.8 million tonnes. The first half year, the port suffered a drop of 9.1%, meaning the second half year was somewhat better. Container transshipment declined by 3.2% to...
Holland Shipyards to build survey vessel for Dutch water authority
Regional Dutch water authority Waterschap Scheldestromen has contracted Holland Shipyards Group for the delivery of a new survey vessel. The new vessel, a replacement of their current vessel, is expected to enter service by the end of 2021. The design takes in account...
Geodis also charters tonnage to alleviate container crunch
Geodis is the latest freight forwarder to charter tonnage to alleviate the container capacity shortage on the major Asia-Europe trade lane. The first exclusively operated 1000-TEU vessel is scheduled to arrive in Hamburg on 28 February. This ship is carrying a total...
Damen launches first Amels 200 superyacht
A few months before its summer delivery, the first Amels 200 rolled out of the outfitting bay on a chilly winter day at the Damen Yachting yard in the Netherlands. The RoFlo launch is the first of the year for the Dutch yacht builder. The sale of Project Amels 200-01...
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