New harbour tugs for Dutch navy in Den Helder
The Royal Netherlands Navy’s harbour service in Den Helder will take delivery of three new medium-sized seagoing harbour tugs next year. Shipyard Neptune Marine will build the vessels. The contract for delivery was signed by the Defence Materiel and IT Command and...
Heerema Develops Offshore Wind Construction Method Using Floating Vessel
Offshore wind farm Arcadis Ost 1 in Germany will be the first to make use of a floating vessel for the installation of wind turbine generators. This construction technology is the result of a year-long joint development between Parkwind, Heerema Marine Contractors and...
Ampelmann Plans Five-tonne People and Cargo Transfer System
Dutch offshore access provider Ampelmann has a new full motion compensation system in the pipeline. The E5000 has the ability to transfer personnel as well as cargo up to 5000 kilogrammes in rough waters offshore. It is expected to be operational in Q3 2020. The...
New Installation Vessel Breaks Jan De Nul’s Own Crane Record
Jan De Nul Group has ordered Les Alizés, a floating installation crane vessel from the CMHI Haimen shipyard in China. Just six months earlier, the company ordered offshore installation vessel Voltaire. With a 5000-metric-tonne Huisman crane, it surpasses the...
‘Cruise Ship Viking Sky Came Within a Ship’s Length of Grounding’
The Norwegian Accident Investigation Board (AIBN) has issued an interim report about the cruise ship Viking Sky. This vessel had a black-out near Hastadvika, Norway, on 23 March 2019 in stormy conditions and came very close to grounding. 479 passengers had to be...
New Mooring Rope Reduces Snap-back
Vessel mooring remains an incredibly high-risk task. As it has proved impossible to accurately calculate or predict just how fibre ropes will behave when they fail and snap, Wilhelmsen Ships Service has instead developed a solution that dramatically reduces a rope’s...
Installation Vessel Orion Ready to Receive Its 5000-tonne Crane
Offshore wind and dredging contractor DEME from Belgium is entering the final phase in the construction of its new DP3 offshore installation vessel Orion. The vessel has arrived at the Liebherr construction yard in the port of Rostock, Germany, for the installation of...
Conoship Designs B-type Vessel for Spliethoff
Dutch ship design company Conoship International has signed a contract with the Chinese Mawei Shipyard for the design of the two new multipurpose DP2 B-type vessels for Spliethoff. The vessels are built under class of Lloyd’s Register, have ice class 1A and also...
Proman Stena Bulk Orders Methanol-ready Tankers
Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI) in China will build two IMOIIMeMAX methanol-ready 49,900 deadweight tonnage vessels for Proman Stena Bulk. It is the first deal signed by the newly-created joint venture between Swedish Stena Bulk and the Swiss-based Proman...
Vessel Collision Due to Poor Lookout Goes Unnoticed
There is always a risk of vessels colliding in restricted and congested waters. Not keeping a proper lookout caused ro-ro passenger ferry Red Falcon and motor cruiser Phoenix to collide in the Thorn Channel near Southampton, England, without the former even noticing....
Stena Line Takes Delivery of First Next Generation Ferry
Ferry company Stena Line has officially taken ownership of its newest ferry the Stena Estrid. The ship was handed over at the AVIC Weihai Shipyard in north-western China on 20 November. The first of five next generation Stena Line RoPax vessels that are currently...
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