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Heerema, Amphitrite speed up Sleipnir’s Atlantic transit

Heerema, Amphitrite speed up Sleipnir’s Atlantic transit

by Mariska Buitendijk | Jul 29, 2026 | Digitalisation, Navigation, News, Offshore, Shipping

Heerema Marine Contractors has shortened the North Atlantic transit of its semi-submersible crane vessel Sleipnir by 2.5 days using a data-driven voyage optimisation pilot. The pilot was conducted together with French ocean intelligence company Amphitrite. The...
First AiP ever for an energy-harvesting ship

First AiP ever for an energy-harvesting ship

by Mariska Buitendijk | May 22, 2026 | Classification/inspection, Emissions, Energy transition, News, Renewables, Ship design, Ship propulsion

DRIFT Energy, a deep tech startup based in Bath, UK, has been awarded an approval in principle (AiP) by RINA for its energy harvesting vessel design. It is the first time that an AiP has been awarded for an energy-harvesting ship. Through RINA’s risk-based AiP...
Container ship Marcos V loses empty containers near Dutch Wadden Island

Container ship Marcos V loses empty containers near Dutch Wadden Island

by Mariska Buitendijk | Feb 21, 2022 | Container loss, Maritime accidents, News, Salvage, Shipping

The container ship Marcos V reported to the Netherlands Coast Guard that it lost at least 26 empty containers at sea on Saturday 19 February. The ship was en route to Rotterdam and lost the containers between the north of the Dutch Wadden Island Vlieland and the west...
Maersk vessels supply weather data to meteorologists

Maersk vessels supply weather data to meteorologists

by Mariska Buitendijk | Feb 7, 2022 | Maritime research, Navigation, News, Shipping

A.P. Moller-Maersk has installed automated weather stations (AWS) on fifty of its vessels creating an oceanic web of weather and climate observations. All collected data is transmitted live to the National Meteorological Service of Germany, Deutscher Wetterdienst...
Windship’s ‘Tesla of the seas’ with triple-wing rig achieves zero emission

Windship’s ‘Tesla of the seas’ with triple-wing rig achieves zero emission

by Mariska Buitendijk | Feb 9, 2021 | News

UK-based Windship Technology has come up with a diesel electric ship drive system that eliminates CO2, NOx, SOx and particulate matter whilst also incorporating large solar arrays, carbon capture, optimised hull shapes and specialised weather routing software. The...
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