Ports suffer from industrial malaise and Trump tariff war
From the magazine – Truly large ports such as Port of Rotterdam and Port of Antwerp-Bruges know how important their annual figures on cargo throughput and the allocation of business sites are, and what can be derived from them. Growth or decline in throughput across...
Spliethoff adds 10th P-type heavy-lift vessel
Spliethoff has acquired another P14-type vessel on Tuesday 15 December 2020. The vessel is renamed Pottersgracht and reflagged to the Dutch register. The vessel was formerly named St. Georg and is a P2-1400 type vessel. With this latest acquisition, the Spliethoff...
Don’t rely on anchors to keep your ship in place during a storm
Time and again groundings from storm anchorages occur because too much time was lost before lifting anchor and putting to the open sea. The Nautical Institute warns about such practices in a recent Mars Report, in which a bulk carrier grounded after staying at the...
Japan to become leader in offshore wind within twenty years
Japan has unveiled huge plans for offshore energy production. The country is gearing up to install as much as 45 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind power by 2040, reports Reuters. The plans would make Japan a global leader in offshore wind. Tokyo's ultimate energy plan...
Royal IHC launches dredger Alyarmouk for Arab Potash Company
The cutter suction dredger (CSD) Alyarmouk has been launched at Royal IHC's shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, the Netherlands. The custom-built vessel is a 3557-kW CSD and a further developed copy of the dredger Jarash, which the shipbuilder delivered to Arab Potash...
Dutch Safety Board: River cruise safety inadequate
The growing popularity of river cruises in the Netherlands demands additional emphasis on safety. The Dutch Safety Board states this in its report published on 17 December on the collision between the Swiss river cruise ship Viking Idun and a Maltese chemical tanker....
Damen Shipyards to spearhead EU defence development project
The European Commission has selected the SEA Defence project coordinated by Damen Shipyards Group within its European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP 2019). SEA Defence is unique in that it brings together European naval yards, which will together...
Van Oord to lay foundations for 1.4-GW Sofia Offshore Wind Farm
RWE has chosen Van Oord as the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) partner for the Sofia Offshore Wind Farm, one of the world’s largest offshore wind projects. Van Oord will deploy its offshore installation vessel Aeolus and cable-layer...
‘Consumer will pay for Trump-like European shipping policy’
European shipping is heading towards a troublesome future. It faces ever more regulations, needs to green the fleet and has trouble finding financing. In his latest opinion piece, SWZ|Maritime’s editor-in-chief Antoon Oosting argues that the consumer will in the end...
Rotor Sails to be installed on a bulk carrier for the first time
Norsepower, a provider of auxiliary wind propulsion systems, has announced its first newbuild order. Five tilting Rotor Sails will be installed on board a large bulk carrier. The agreement heralds the first installation of Norsepower’s innovative Rotor Sails on a bulk...
Unloading ONE Apus to take more than a month, USD 200 million in damage
It will take more than a month to remove all remaining containers from the ONE Apus. The container ship of the Japanese shipping company ONE lost 1816 containers a fortnight ago during heavy weather on the Pacific Ocean. During the operation in the Japanese port of...
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