by Martin Vodnik | Aug 27, 2021 | News, Offshore wind, Ship repair/maintenance
DEME Offshore, the dedicated division of DEME Group, is getting ready to retrofit its Sea Installer vessel. She will be equipped with a more powerful crane with a capacity of 1,600 tonnes, which will be able to lift wind turbines of the next generation. The modernised...
by Martin Vodnik | Aug 9, 2021 | Dredging, News, Shipbuilding
Belgian marine contractor DEME Group has extended its fleet with a new cutter suction dredger named ‘Spartacus’. The vessel, which is being considered the world’s most powerful of its kind, was built by the Dutch shipyard Royal IHC. Its first...
by Mariska Buitendijk | Jun 10, 2021 | Dredging, News, Shipbuilding
European politics cannot be blamed of being blind to the future of the maritime sector anymore after it adopted the Opatija Declaration and set out its future outlook for EU waterborne transport. But is it enough to save the European shipbuilding and dredging industry...
by Mariska Buitendijk | May 27, 2021 | Deepsea mining, Dredging, News
It was about ten years ago when Dutch companies and people started thinking about the possibilities and necessity of deepsea mining. Of course, in the Netherlands and, not to forget Belgium, a lot of people and companies are involved in dredging. And dredging and...
by Mariska Buitendijk | May 4, 2021 | Deepsea mining, News
A prototype deep-seabed mining robot that had become uncoupled from a cable connecting it to a surface vessel has been successfully recovered from the floor of the Pacific Ocean. The Patania II, GSR’s purpose-built prototype nodule collector, is currently being...
