EU financing for Rotterdam Shore Power
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending EUR 90 million to the Port of Rotterdam Authority for the installation of shore power facilities at three deep-sea container terminals in the port. The loan will finance Rotterdam Shore Power, a joint venture between the...
Aft ship cut from ferry Münsterland as part of LNG conversion
Shipbuilder Royal Niestern Sander has removed the aft ship of the passenger ship Münsterland. Subsequently, the 300-tonne aft ship was transported to Groningen. The transport is part of an LNG conversion project. The old systems and installations are being dismantled...
Construction of new training ship for Dutch maritime college STC kicks off
Construction of the STC training vessel Ab Initio has begun. Concordia Damen, in collaboration with Gebroeders De Jonge Shipbuilding Services, has commissioned the construction of the hull at the yard in Apatin, Serbia. The steel for the hull was ordered this week. Ab...
Pirates board container ship off Nigeria and kill crew member
Pirates have attacked a container ship in the Gulf of Guinea. One person was killed and fifteen others were kidnapped, the Turkish state news agency Anadolu reported on Sunday 24 January. The kidnapped crew members are reportedly from Turkey, the man killed was from...
DNV GL judges Heerema’s Silent Foundation concepts to be feasible
Heerema has been working on developing "silent foundations" that can be installed without loud hammering, which can be harmful to marine life and requires noise mitigation systems that produce a considerable CO2 footprint. DNV GL has now awarded a Statement of...
Seatools to supply crawler equipment for Allseas’ deepsea mining project
Subsea technology company Seatools will deliver the electrical, hydraulic, and control system for Allseas’ deepsea mining nodule collector. The project is part of Allseas’ development programme to realise advanced deep-water equipment for the gathering of polymetallic...
IHC built cutter suction dredger enters final commissioning phase
Royal IHC has been testing the performance of the dredge pump of the cutter suction dredger Alyarmouk the company is building for Arab Potash Company (APC) based in Jordan. This will be followed by commissioning the automatic dredging installation over the next few...
Unclear pilotage root cause for ship collision in Scheldt area
On 21 January 2018, the Dutch pilot vessel Pollux and the Panamanian bulk carrier Nord Taurus collided off the coast of Zeeland, the Netherlands. The Dutch Safety Board now concludes the cause of the accident was the confusion caused by the presence of two pilot...
Safety equipment becomes snag hazard and crew member injures finger
Sometimes, safety equipment itself can be a hazard, argues The Nautical Institute after a crew member suffered an injury on board a cargo vessel. In this case, open half-links were used to support the safety chain on the stanchions, but these became a snag hazard. The...
Heerema to construct Hollandse Kust substation jacket
Heerema Fabrication Group will construct the Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore transformer substation jacket. The contract for this was signed with Iemants (part of Smulders). The jacket will be 44 metres high and consists of 1600 tonnes of steel. Construction will...
Maersk container ship loses 750 containers in North Pacific
Once again a large container ship has lost a large number of containers in heavy weather. This time it was the Maersk Essen, which lost some 750 containers in the middle of the North Pacific. Maersk confirmed the incident after four days, but provided few details....
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