Austal contracts Damen for Australian naval vessels
On 20 February, Austal Defence Australia and Damen Shipyards agreed on the local construction of Landing Ship Transport (LST) 100 vessels for the Australian Defence Force. Damen will provide the design and associated licences, enabling Austal to build the vessels at...
Vestdavit deploys augmented reality to enhance remote support
Vestdavit enhances its remote support offering with augmented reality software from Ubimax, a provider of wearable technology solutions. The platform, named "xAssist", will be used in conjunction with head-mounted hardware "RealWear HMT-1". The platform will allow...
Blue Offshore moves 8000 tonnes of grid cables for Dutch OWF
Blue Offshore has moved 8000 tonnes of high voltage cable to Rotterdam. The cables will form the connection of Tennet’s Hollandse Kust Zuid Alpha Platform to the onshore grid. Blue Offshore was awarded the contract by Van Oord, which is one of the companies involved...
Jan De Nul delivers first pin piles for Taiwanese offshore wind farm
Jan De Nul Group has started transportation of the pin piles for the 376-MW Formosa 2 Offshore Wind Farm. The first batch of 26 pin piles was loaded on the transportation vessel BBC Onyx at EEW SPC’s facilities in South Korea and offloaded at the Formosa 2 marshalling...
Putin plans to equip navy with super-fast weapons
Vladimir Putin has announced that Russia's warships will be equipped with the most modern hypersonic weapons. According to the Russian President, the weapons, which he said are unique in the world, will expand the Russian navy's fighting capability. The Russian...
C-Job to open new office in Poland
C-Job Naval Architects will open an office in Gdansk, Poland this July. The new entity will expand on the ship design and engineering company’s existing activities and pursue new markets particularly in the Baltic and Scandinavian region. The Gdansk office will...
‘Structural simulation model enables safe supercargo marine transport’
The structural assessment process required for heavy-lift transport projects on board multi-purpose vessels can benefit from existing finite element (FE) models according to DNV GL. This reduces time spent on FE modelling and analysis while at the same time increasing...
Van Oord to construct Hollandse Kust offshore wind farm
After CrossWind was awarded the permit for the Hollandse Kust (north) offshore wind farm earlier this week, Van Oord has been contracted for the engineering, construction and installation activities. CrossWind is a joint venture between Shell and Eneco. As Balance of...
SWZ|Maritime’s June special about Dutch naval shipbuilding is here
What the new Dutch frigates will look like and who will build our new submarines is still unclear, but the decisions about this are expected within the next few years. Still, the authors in SWZ|Maritime's June navy special can say something interesting about the...
Oil field services provider Schlumberger cuts 21,000 jobs
Schlumberger is cutting 21,000 jobs in response to the pandemic and related oil crisis. CEO Olivier le Peuch says the second quarter 'has probably been the most challenging quarter in the past decades.' The company has recorded huge drops in revenue, which fell by 35...
Covid-19 app launched for the European river cruise sector
River cruise ports in the south and west of the Netherlands, Port of Amsterdam and Must See have launched the app Port See. This app provides up-to-date insight into the accessibility of ports for river cruise ships and what corona measures, if any, apply there. The...
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