by Mariska Buitendijk | Jul 23, 2021 | Dredging, News, Ports
A consortium of Van Oord and Boskalis Van Oord has secured the contract for the Harwich Haven approach channel and inner harbour deepening. The contract carries a value of approximately 140 million euros, split fifty-fifty between the two dredging companies. The...
by Mariska Buitendijk | Jul 22, 2021 | Ports
With an almost 6 per cent increase compared with the same period last year, the Port of Rotterdam is rebounding from the Covid dip in the first six months of 2021. Throughput amounted to 231.6 million tonnes, reports the Port Authority. Nevertheless, the level of...
by Mariska Buitendijk | Jun 29, 2021 | News, Ports
The ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg, Bremen and Haropa (including Le Havre) want to provide large container ships with shore power by 2028. This would mean the onboard generators are not used when the vessels are berthed. The ships will then be connected to the...
by Mariska Buitendijk | Jun 28, 2021 | News, Ports
The incoming and outgoing throughput of goods in Dutch seaports declined to almost 558 million tonnes in 2020 as a result of the pandemic. This is more than eight per cent less than in 2019, and thus the largest drop since the economic crisis of 2009. This follows...
by Mariska Buitendijk | Jun 17, 2021 | Maritime regulations, Ports
The Dutch fleet moves down from fourth to fifth place on the Performance List of the Paris MoU. Both the lists of best performing flag states and worst performing flag states got smaller, causing the so-called “Grey List” in between to grow. The lists are...
