Bound4blue installs first eSAILs for Maersk Tankers
Bound4blue has fitted four 24-metre "plug-and-play" eSAIL units on board the Maersk Trieste. It marks the first stage of an agreement with Maersk Tankers that will see a total of twenty units installed across five advanced medium-range (MR) tankers. The contract,...
Royal Huisman Combines Sailing with Explorer Yacht
Yacht builder Royal Huisman has unveiled its latest superyacht project: Lotus. This project consists of an 88-metre DynaRig sailing yacht as well as a 70-metre companion explorer vessel. The project has been designed by the ThirtyC design studio, in collaboration with...
French Banks Want to Buy Troubled Bourbon
A group of French Banks has placed a takeover offer to buy the also French and insolvent offshore service vessel (OSV) giant Bourbon. On Wednesday 9 October, the financially troubled company asked Euronext Paris to suspend the listing of its shares in anticipation of...
Marin Tests First Transatlantic Underwater Hyperloop
Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (Marin) has carried out the first demonstration tests for a transatlantic underwater hyperloop. Although various parties around the world are working on the development of the hyperloop, no one has ever investigated the...
Full Scale Trials Conducted with Unmanned RHIB
Joint Industry Project (JIP) Laura has performed full scale trials with an unmanned rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB). The tests took place near Den Helder, the Netherlands, using a 66-metre mothership and a modified RHIB from the Dutch Navy. Several concepts were...
Security Awareness Training for Seafarers Now Available Online
Rood Boven Groen is the first company approved by the Dutch administrations to offer the STCW training Security Awareness (Regulation V1/6, paragraph 1,2 & 3 and section A-V1/6.4) completely online in an e-Learning environment. A secure id control makes it...
Sinot Presents Hydrogen Powered Yacht
Sinot Yacht Architecture & Design has presented project Aqua, a 112-metre superyacht. Designer Sander Sinot: 'Our challenge was to implement fully operational liquid hydrogen and fuel cells in a true superyacht that is not only groundbreaking in technology, but...
Kotug and Horizon Maritime in Canadian Joint Venture
Kotug International and Horizon Maritime Services have formed Kotug Canada, a joint venture company which will offer terminal and harbour towage services across Canada. The joint venture is to create a strong presence within the Canadian terminal and harbour towing...
Dutch Prime Minister Updated on World’s First Electric Tug
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte was informed this afternoon (8 October) about the construction of the world's first fully electric tugboat in the port of Auckland (New Zealand). The tug is currently being developed by the port authorities and Damen Shipyards, among...
Priscilla Grounding: Watch Officer Was Watching Videos on His Phone
For about two hours prior to the grounding of the MV Priscilla in July 2018, the officer of the watch had been unaware that the vessel was drifting away from the planned passage because he was watching non-work related videos on his mobile phone. This was concluded by...
Petition to Keep Searching for Bourbon Rhode’s Missing Crew Members
Four days after the last body was found, search operations for the seven still missing crew members of the Bourbon Rhode were significantly downsized. Convinced that there is still hope, friends and relatives of the Croatian captain have started a petition to keep...
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