Damen Yachting launches fourth 53-metre Yacht Support
Damen Yachting has launched the fourth YS53, a 53-metre Yacht Support at its Antalya facility, reflecting the growing demand for support vessels. Following its launch, the vessel will enter final outfitting and sea trials ahead of delivery to the owner later this...
Never rush into a space that has a collapsed crew member inside
Some spaces, although not officially an enclosed space, can still act as one. In a recent Mars Report, a crew member died after entering a bow thruster compartment alone. The Nautical Institute stresses rescue operations should always be conducted with breathing...
Record draught in Rotterdam container shipping
The Marie Maersk has departed from APMT 2 in Rotterdam Amaliahaven with a record draught of 17.4 metres. For this reason, the Port Authority guided the container vessel to the Eurogeul, a deepened navigation channel in the North Sea with a guaranteed depth of 25...
Multraship to salvage sunken fishing cutter with crane ship Cormorant
Multraship will salvage the Urk cutter UK-171. The ship sunk twenty nautical miles north of the Dutch Wadden Island Schiermonnikoog. The crane ship Cormorant is already on site, together with a tugboat. Due to bad weather on the North Sea, it is still unclear when...
Ulstein to design first Jones Act compliant rock installation vessel
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has contracted Ulstein Design & Solutions to design the first US flagged, Jones Act compliant inclined fallpipe vessel for subsea rock installation. The vessel is critical in building the future of the US offshore wind industry,...
Mega Philippine land development to keep Boskalis’ dredgers busy for years
Boskalis has won its largest project to date. The EUR 1.5 billion contract concerns the land development of the Manila International Airport in the Philippines. Boskalis CEO Peter Berdowski says the contract secures the utilisation for the company's large dredging...
KNRM to replace 75 lifeboats before 2035
The current fleet of the Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution (KNRM) includes lifeboats from 1991 and onwards. The oldest is therefore almost thirty years old. The ships are good, but the costs of maintenance and the risk of failure are increasing. That is why the...
SWZ|Maritime’s December issue: EU maritime policy in focus
SWZ|Maritime’s December issue is traditionally a special with a focus on the shipbuilding industry in a specific country, last year Japan. This time we focused on Europe. Not a state, but a cooperating group of independent states with a lot of the characteristics of a...
Jan De Nul buys large cable layer from Ocean Yield
Jan De Nul Group will acquire the offshore construction and cable-lay vessel Connector from Ocean Yield ASA. The Connector is one of the largest and most advanced subsea installation and construction vessels available in the world. The vessel will be officially...
Explosion damages oil tanker near Saudi Arabia
Oil tanker BW Rhine has been damaged by an explosion in the port of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. The explosion was allegedly caused by an 'external source', reports shipping company Hafnia. The company reports that a fire also broke out on board the 228.60-metre long ship...
‘Shortage of container ships is untenable’
The shortage of container ships in the shipping industry and, as a result, of containers in Europe has become untenable, according to Evofenedex, a logistics trade association. The shortage creates unsafe situations and congestion in port areas. Evofenedex calls on...
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