Wagenborg assists car carrier after fire in the North Sea
Royal Wagenborg provided assistance on 27 January to the car carrier Thames Highway after a fire broke out on board the vessel. Tugboats Waterstraat and Waterstroom were deployed to safely escort the ship to the port of Emden. In the early hours of Tuesday, around...
Marechaussee Finds Drugs on Board HNLMS Johan de Witt
The Royal Netherlands Marechaussee found hard drugs while searching the HNLMS Johan de Witt in Den Helder on Saturday 26 October. The naval ship had returned from the Caribbean on Thursday. A combined search team of the Marechaussee and customs found the drugs on...
Ocean Cleanup to Catch Plastic in Rivers
The Ocean Cleanup now also plans to rid 1000 rivers of plastic before the end of 2025. Together these rivers are responsible for about eighty per cent of ocean plastic pollution. On Saturday, 26 October, the organisation unveiled its Interceptor, developed for this...
Rolls-Royce Targets Italian Yacht Market with New Yacht Centre
With a new Yacht Competence Centre in La Spezia, Italy, Rolls-Royce seeks to persuade more of the Italian yacht builders to opt for its MTU propulsion systems. The centre will offer technical support in the development and integration of the entire propulsion strand...
Damen Enters Project to Win Methane from Seaweed
The seaweed Sargassum is causing problems in Caribbean waters. Damen and Maris Projects have entered into a partnership that seeks to harvest the weed and turn it into methane. Damen will develop a special MultiCat for this purpose. A significant – and to date,...
‘MSC Zoe Hit Bottom of the Wadden Sea Before Container Disaster’
Container ship MSC Zoe hit the seabed just before the accident at the beginning of this year, in which it lost hundreds of containers above the Wadden Islands. This is the conclusion of research carried out by the Dutch TV programme Zembla. A reconstruction by Zembla...
Damen Delivers Second ASV 9020 Class Vessel to Bibby Marine Services
The second of Damen’s Accommodation Support Vessels (ASV) 9020 has been handed over to Bibby Marine Services at Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania. Once the Bibby WaveMaster Horizon arrives in the North Sea, it will begin maintenance work on two German offshore wind...
Live Water Depth Measuring Platform Seeks to Scale Up
The CoVadem platform gathers data from inland navigation ships to map current and predicted available depth on Dutch shipping lanes. The organisation now calls on more ships to join to increase its coverage, which in turn will also benefit research into soil...
Insurance Firm Warns of Scrubber Corrosion Problems
Norwegian P&I club Gard reports of several cases in which scrubbers have caught fire or corroded within a year. The insurance company is warning shipping companies and their crew members to keep a close eye on the machinery. The new sulphur regulation is fast...
Asia to Become Dominant Market for Wind Energy, New Study Shows
Asia could grow its share of installed capacity for onshore wind from 230 gigawatts in 2018 to over 2600 gigawatts by 2050, a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) finds. By that time, the region would become a global leader in wind,...
The World’s First Green Offshore Hydrogen Pilot Explained
In July, Neptune Energy's Q13a-A offshore platform was selected for the world's first offshore green hydrogen pilot, now called PosHYdon. The partners involved have now released a video which explains how this pilot will work. PosHYdon integrates three energy systems...
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