by Mariska Buitendijk | May 13, 2021 | News, Ship design, Shipbuilding, Yachts
As usual when it comes to naming owners of yachts, the spokesman of Dutch superyacht builder Oceanco in Alblasserdam refuses any comment. Yet, press agency Bloomberg, followed by other respectable media like the Dutch Financieele Dagblad, is sure that the world’s...
by Mariska Buitendijk | May 3, 2021 | News, Shipbuilding
The order book of Damen Shipyards has grown to a record of eight billion euros by the end of 2020, more than twice as much as at the end of 2019. Among the orders that the largest shipbuilder in the Netherlands was able to book is the construction of four F-126...
by Mariska Buitendijk | Apr 21, 2021 | News, Ship design
It’s been all about tugs lately. The Alp Guard and Carlo Magno were deployed to pull the grounded Ever Given free. The Normand Drott brought the Eemslift Hendrika to safety. How powerful are these ships? And how do these stars compare to the strongest tug boats...
by Mariska Buitendijk | Mar 19, 2021 | News
Jumbo has carried out a record trip in India, calling five ports in 29 days and loading and delivering thousands of tonnes of project cargo with its heavy lift vessel Fairpartner. It is the longest time a Jumbo vessel has stayed in Indian waters and performed a...
by Mariska Buitendijk | Jan 12, 2021 | News
Jumbo’s heavy-lift vessel Fairpartner has set a new lift record in the port of New Orleans while unloading two hydrocracking reactors for an oil major. The reactors weighed 1467 and 1508 tonnes, making them the heaviest pieces offloaded in the port thus far. In...
