Help young people choose maritime careers
SWZ|Maritime and the Royal Dutch Society of Marine Engineers (KNVTS) are working together with Dutch maritime education institutions to increase student enrolment and are also asking for your active support. We would like to encourage you to motivate acquaintances who...
Dutch navy seeks new support vessel family
In a so-called A Letter to the House of Representatives, the Dutch Ministry of Defence announced its intention to replace ten separate naval support vessels. The aim is to facilitate "family formation" as much as possible. In other words, no identical vessels, but as...
Jan de Nul awarded turbine installation contract at Dogger Bank
Jan de Nul Group has won the wind turbine transport and installation contract for the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the UK, which will be powered with GE's 12 MW Haliade-X wind turbines. The contract will be carried out by Jan de Nul's new installation vessel...
RH Marine performs more services remotely
RH Marine performs more and more service remotely, using its Remote Assistance solution. In addition to saving cost, Remote Assistance also offers a solution if vessels are not allowed to receive external parties on board or if service engineers are unable to travel...
Do you check your ship’s air moving equipment before first use each day?
Before commencing gas freeing operations, air moving equipment has to be grounded. On a tank barge where this was not carried out properly, static electricity caused an explosion. The incident was covered in a recent Mars Report. These reports are compiled...
New condition monitoring system limits downtime of dredgers
Bakker Sliedrecht will supply its innovative condition monitoring system for measuring vibration of bearings in submersible motors to trailing suction hopper dredger Jun Yang 1, the largest trailing suction hopper dredger in China at the moment. Condition monitoring...
OHT orders two new installation vessels citing capacity concerns
Offshore Heavy Transport has ordered two new installation vessels with China Merchants Heavy Industry. “We are responding to client concerns about the lack of capable vessel capacity in the booming offshore wind market”, says CEO Torgeir Ramstad. The first vessel is...
How hybrid technology can optimise energy use on board ships
The technical lifespan of a ship is around thirty years. The economical lifespan, however, due to technological progress, is lower. Retrofitting battery based energy storage systems on existing ships can reduce operational costs. What are the available options?...
Damen to deliver cutter suction dredger to Servimagnus in Argentina
Damen Shipyards has sold a full option Cutter Suction Dredger (CSD) 500 to the Argentinian dredging contractor Servimagnus. The CSD will work on the waterways programme in the province of Buenos Aires. The modular dredger is currently under construction in the...
Two tanker mooring lines caught in bow thruster
Due care must always be taken with lines near a working bow thruster. A recent Mars Report features an incident in which the mooring lines were drawn into the thruster tunnel fouling the propeller blades. The Mars reports are compiled (anonymously) by The Nautical...
Wastewater checks could help track coronavirus on board cruise ships
Testing wastewater systems on long-haul planes and cruise ships could provide crucial information on detecting the presence of the Covid-19 virus in incoming passengers. According to Australian researchers, this test could be an additional public health management...
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