A Belgian-French consortium led by French company Naval Group will build the twelve new mine hunters for the Dutch and Belgian governments, which has caused uproar in the Netherlands at the very limited involvement of Dutch maritime industry.

On 8 April, Thecla Bodewes Shipyards launched the 250 pax light-weight Wadden ferry Adler Rüm Hart in Harlingen.

Van Oord has completed the installation of the offshore substation at the 269 MW Northland Power’s Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm in Germany’s Exclusive Economic Zone.

Wärtsilä and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) have signed a Joint Development Project (JDP) agreement aimed at establishing a more efficient solution for LNG Carrier and Shuttle Tanker vessels.

In a new technical news, DNV GL explains why the IMO Guidance for developing a Ship Implementation Plan (SIP) is a useful tool in getting ready for the IMO global sulphur cap.

The Dutch Maritime Knowledge Centre (MKC), Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and the Netherlands Defence Academy (NLDA) will start preliminary research into the applicability of iron as a marine fuel.

Due to longer ferry routes in the city of Copenhagen, Arriva Danmark has extended the existing five-ferry contract with Damen Shipyards with two extra ferries.

Royal IHC has built and delivered its 2000th dredge pump. Number 2000 will see its way to Jan De Nul Group’s new trailing suction hopper dredger.

Wärtsilä has successfully completed sea trials of its SceneScan system, the world’s first “targetless” dynamic positioning (DP) laser sensor.

Jan De Nul Group has ordered the Voltaire, its third offshore jack-up installation vessel, at Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry in China.