HNLMS Evertsen sets sail for Middle East
The Netherlands has once again sent an air defence and command frigate to the Middle East. HNLMS Evertsen departed on 27 September and will be away for more than three months. The ship is taking over the duties of HNLMS De Ruyter, which recently returned. When the...
VIDEO: Holland Shipyards launches hull of floating hotel
Holland Shipyards Group recently completed the concrete hull for The Good Hotel's modular floating hotel. This 108 x 18-metre barge is being built using over 200 truckloads of concrete. After construction on a temporary pontoon, the hull was carefully submerged to...
VIDEO: MARIN reveals new wind setup for floating wind
Floating wind turbines are rapidly increasing in size and complexity. To keep pace with this development, MARIN has introduced a next‑generation wind setup that enables high‑fidelity testing of advanced floating wind systems. The new facility generates a fully...
Port of Rotterdam and VOTOB to tackle tank storage spoofing
At the World Port Center, a cooperation agreement has been signed between the Port of Rotterdam Authority and VOTOB (Association of Dutch Tank Storage Companies) to continue and expand a task force aimed at combating the fraud scheme known as storage spoofing. With...
Wasaline now officially part of Stena Line
A ceremony in Umeå has marked the official completion of Stena Line’s acquisition of Wasaline. It was on 4 November 2025 that Stena Line announced the purchase of the company NLC Ferry Oy/Wasaline, which involved taking over the operation of the ferry service between...
Shipbuilding robotics project launches in the Drechtsteden
On 9 February, Dutch Economic Affairs Minister Vincent Karremans and Maritime Manufacturing Envoy Marja van Bijsterveldt launched project STREAM. The initiative is to advance automation and robotisation in shipbuilding to cut costs and tackle labour shortages. The...
Push to future-proof Dutch maritime education
On Monday 9 February, The Dutch Maritime Network and Dutch maritime education institutions signed a cooperation agreement at the Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz (MIWB) to strengthen and future-proof maritime education. With the signing, the project "Strengthening...
Maersk orders eight 18,600-TEU dual-fuel container ships
Maersk has signed a contract for eight large vessels with New Times Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in China. All eight ships will have the same characteristics and make up a new series of 18,600 TEU vessels with delivery in 2029 and 2030. 'We are pleased to have signed this...
Huisman to supply twelve extra stacking cranes to ECT
Huisman has signed a second contract with Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam (ECT) for the delivery of twelve additional Automated Stacking Cranes (ASCs). The order follows the earlier delivery of a series of six. Of the initial series, three cranes are already...
Oceanco relaunches 92.8-metre superyacht Draak
Oceanco has relaunched the 92.8-metre Draak (ex-Tranquility and Equanimity) from its facilities in Zwijndrecht. Originally delivered by Oceanco in 2014, Draak returned for a comprehensive rebuild to adapt the yacht for a new operational role. The project has...
Ships bunkered six times more bio-LNG Rotterdam in 2025
Last year, maritime shipping bunkered 3000 tonnes more fuel in Rotterdam than in 2024. In total, ships bunkered 9.8 million tonnes of fuel. For the first time, vessels bunkered more than 1 million m3 of LNG in Rotterdam, including a growing volume of bio-LNG: 17,644...
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