by Mariska Buitendijk | Apr 26, 2022 | News, Offshore wind
German shipping and logistics group Harren & Partner has taken over the jack-up vessel Thor from DEME. With a fleet of now four offshore ships, the company seeks to expand in the offshore wind industry. Thor is a 2010-built dynamic positioning (DP2) jack-up crane...
by Mariska Buitendijk | Mar 17, 2022 | News, Shipbuilding
Dutch shipyard Royal Bodewes and production company Passer SIDC from Lithuania have acquired the former De Hoop Shipyard in Foxhol, the Netherlands. De Hoop stopped building ships there in 2017 and since then rented out the location to shipyards and steel construction...
by Mariska Buitendijk | Apr 21, 2021 | News, Shipping
The Rhenus Group, through its shortsea subsidiary Rhenus Maritime Services (RMS), has bought a majority stake of sixty per cent in the Hamburg-based shipbroker Arkon Shipping & Projects. The shares were purchased from Arkon Shipping. As a result of the deal, Arkon...
by Mariska Buitendijk | Mar 18, 2021 | News
Hapag-Lloyd plans to take over Dutch container shipping company NileDutch Investments BV. NileDutch is mainly known for its liner services to Africa. It means the end of another Dutch container shipping company after the big takeover of P&O Nedlloyd by Maersk in...
by Mariska Buitendijk | Mar 5, 2021 | News
Royal IHC and Royal Doeksen have reached an agreement on the acquisition of all shares in Vuyk Engineering Rotterdam. The sale is part of IHC’s major restructuring programme for which the company announced it would focus on its core activities. Other activities...