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SWZ|Maritime is pleased to be a media partner of the upcoming CEDA Dredging Days, held from 11-13 May in Antwerp, Belgium. The detailed programme is available through the website: https://ceda.eventsair.com/dd26/. Also read: Young CEDA: Adaptation is the key to...
Tetrahedron wins award for new offshore wind crane
Tetrahedron has won Windpower Monthly’s innovation of the year award for its novel cranes that can install the next generation of 12-20-MW offshore wind turbines. The cranes can upgrade existing wind turbine installation vessels with minimal modification to the hull...
UHL takes delivery of first newbuild F900 Ecolift vessel
United Heavy Lift has taken delivery of the first of eight newly built F900 heavy-lift vessels, the MV UHL Faith. With the investment, the German project carrier wants to contribute to eco-friendly shipping and further expand its presence in the US market. The vessel...
Nautilus: Seafarers report lack of medical care in ports
Non-emergency medical care at ports is becoming more difficult to access during the pandemic, leaving sick seafarers to suffer in silence, sometimes for months at a time. This warning was issued by seafarer trade union Nautilus. Access to medical care in port is...
Transshipment Port of Amsterdam drops considerably
Transshipment in the Amsterdam port declined substantially due to the corona crisis and the energy transition. The port authority Port of Amsterdam reports that in 2020, 74.3 million tonnes were transshipped, fourteen per cent less than the 86.9 million tonnes the...
Huisman to build 2600-mt crane for OIM Wind’s new installation vessel
Huisman has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore for the delivery of a 2600-metric-tonne Leg Encircling Crane for OIM Wind’s BT-220IU Wind Installation Unit. The LOI includes the option for the delivery of a similar crane for a second...
RIMS launches Global Drone Inspection and ROV inspections
RIMS, which supplies drone inspections in the maritime industry, has launched Global Drone Inspection to focus on the drone and remotely operated vehicle (ROV) element of the business. The new subsidiary also introduces the use of ROVs for the inspection of in-water...
‘Captain MSC Zoe not guilty of losing containers in the North Sea’
The captain of the container ship MSC Zoe will not be prosecuted, the Dutch Public Prosecutor's Office has announced. The container ship lost a huge load of containers in bad weather in the night of 1 to 2 January 2019, north of the Wadden Islands. The captain cannot...
ABB wins first Azipod electric propulsion contract for a superyacht
For the first time, ABB will supply its Azipod system to a superyacht. The order for two 2.5-MW Azipod units, together with propulsion drives and controls, was placed by Dutch luxury yacht builder Oceanco. The system offers superior fuel efficiency and manoeuvrability...
Covid and Brexit cause 11 per cent transshipment drop at Nort Sea Port
The ports of Vlissingen, Terneuzen and Ghent, which merged into North Sea Port in 2018, suffered from the corona crisis and the oil crisis last year. Brexit also made itself felt, both in a positive and negative sense. All in all, more than eleven per cent less goods...
‘Never before did pirates kidnap so many crew in the Gulf of Guinea’
Piracy and armed robbery incidents increased in 2020. The Gulf of Guinea even recorded its highest ever number of crew kidnapped. This was reported by the International Chamber of Commerce’s International Maritime Bureau (IMB). IMB also warns the incidents are taking...
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