N-Sea expands geotechnical survey capabilities
N-Sea Group has contracted GeoForce Technical Services to supply a fully integrated shallow water geotechnical solution on a dedicated vessel as well as across the N-Sea vessel fleet. Beginning in Q2 2026, the companies will deploy the bespoke geotechnical package on...
Damen hands over day cruise vessel Swift to Windermere Lake Cruises
Damen Shipyards Group has delivered the MV Swift to Winander Leisure. The ship will be operated by Windermere Lake Cruises. Special about this project is that the shipyard built the vessel inland on location at Windermere in the Lake District National Park in the UK....
Yacht technology company De Keizer goes bankrupt
De Keizer Marine Engineering has gone bankrupt. The company that supplies electrical installations for yachts had already applied for and received deferred payment of debts earlier last week. The administrators and the board of directors asked the court to convert...
New Tetrahedron crane can increase lift capacity of existing jack-ups
Tetrahedron has designed a new crane for the installation of next-generation offshore wind turbines. Based on a fundamentally different motion principle and an efficient structural load transfer, the crane lifts higher than alternatives and can fit in the same crane...
Kotug wins first long term towage contract in South America
Kotug has been awarded a long-term contract by Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) to provide offshore terminal towage support for operations in Guyana. This contract marks the company’s first operation in the South American subcontinent and...
Van Oord wins Taiwanese dredging project
Van Oord has been contracted to dredge the water intake basin of the Taiwanese Da Tan power plant. Cutter suction dredger HAM 218 and trailing suction hopper dredger HAM 318 will join forces on this project, which will kick off early 2021. Driven by the growing demand...
Miguel Delcour appointed Director of Royal Institute of Engineers KIVI
Miguel Delcour has been appointed Director of the Royal Institute of Engineers (KIVI) as of 12 October 2020. He will take over from interim Director Bart Struwe with immediate effect. The KIVI office supports the main administration and the 50 specialised departments...
Parent company ECT can acquire APM container terminal in Rotterdam
Hutchison Ports Netherlands, parent company of container handling company ECT, can takeover the container terminal APM Terminals Rotterdam. This has been decided by the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM). ACM does not see any significant effects on competition...
Billions needed to make Dutch Defence technologically advanced
Defence must be a 'smart, technologically advanced organisation' by 2035 and focus on what it excels in, such as its submarines. This comes at a price: to implement all the plans, up to an additional 17 billion euros will be structurally needed. That is the vision for...
Dutch Navy considers green methanol as fuel for its support vessels
Within the Green Maritime Methanol project the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) has extensively studied the use of green methanol as a ship fuel for its support vessels. According to the navy, it has the potential to be the future fuel of choice. The 75 metres long and...
125 million euros for more shore power in the Port of Rotterdam
The City of Rotterdam and the Port of Rotterdam Authority are jointly earmarking 125 million euros to make port operations more sustainable. The money will go to projects for shore power for seagoing vessels, a cleaner alternative to the diesel generators that...
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