Pilot boat hits rocks
Navigating using exclusively visual means in reduced visibility, even in well-known waters, is a recipe for an accident, warns The Nautical Institute in a new Mars Report. In this case, it resulted in the grounding of a pilot boat. The Nautical Institute gathers...
Chemship to implement MMT vessel optimisation
Manta Marine Technologies (MMT) will install its automated propulsion optimisation system, FuelOpt, across nine vessels in the Chemship fleet. This is to help the chemical tanker operator reduce fuel emissions. The new deal is the result of a successful trial in which...
‘Container ship recycling overhang at least 1.8 million TEU’
With just ten container ships recycled this year so far, the trend of slow recycling activity that began in 2021 continues, states BIMCO in a new Shipping Number of the Week. 'As a result, we estimate that a recycling overhang of minimum 500 ships and 1.8 million TEU...
TU Delft to develop digital twin of the sea
A new Horizon Europe project, led by TU Delft, brings together international partners to investigate how climate change is impacting the marine environment and what this means for the way we depend on and use the ocean. A digital twin of the ocean is to provide...
VIDEO: Allseas wraps up 2025 campaign with topsides removal
Allseas’ heavy-lift vessel Pioneering Spirit has successfully removed the Eider Alpha topsides from the northern North Sea. The safe, single-lift removal of the 11,640-tonne structure marks the start of a series of major dismantling projects for TAQA UK’s North Sea...
Huisman launches automated inspection tool for wire ropes
Huisman is introducing Rope Vision, an advanced automated visual inspection tool designed to enhance the reliability and safety of wire rope operations. The tool is specifically aimed at wire ropes of heavy-lifting cranes. The wire ropes of heavy-lifting cranes are...
AiP for HD KSOE’s nuclear container ship design
DNV has awarded HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (HD KSOE) an approval in principle (AiP) for a new 15,000 TEU container vessel design powered by small modular reactor (SMR) technology. The AiP was awarded at the KORMARINE tradefair this week. The...
VIDEO: Jan De Nul launches world’s largest cable-layer
Jan De Nul has launched its newest cable-laying vessel: the Fleeming Jenkin. It will install subsea cables for the transmission of renewable energy. The vessel has a loading capacity of 28,000 tonnes, making it the world’s largest of its kind. Delivery is scheduled...
VIDEO: World’s first energy island is taking shape
In mid-September, the last caisson for 2025 was installed at the Princess Elisabeth Island in the Belgian North Sea, an important step in the construction of the world’s first energy island. This year’s offshore campaign has now concluded. The work so far has involved...
SWZ|Maritime’s October 2025 issue: Looking forward
Already taken a look at the headshot accompanying this editorial? My face might be familiar to readers of the Dutch magazine Constructeur, focused on mechanical engineering and design. Or perhaps from the years in the early 2000s when I worked at a Dutch maritime...
Vishwa Samudra orders Beagle 8 TSHD from IHC
Royal IHC will build a Beagle 8 trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) for India's Vishwa Samudra Group. The dredger will have a hopper capacity of 8000 m3 and will be built at Royal IHC's shipyard in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands. Delivery is scheduled for summer 2027....
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