Roll Group’s ice class vessel BigRoll Bering will be upgraded with a Dynamic Positioning 2 system (DP2). This allows the 173 meter long module carrier to better maintain its position during loading and unloading. It also it increases the deployability of the vessel for more complex transports.
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On Monday March 1, Thun Equality was launched in an online event where she was named by God Mother Margareta Alestig, Chairman of the Board of Erik Thun AB. Thun Equality is the third product tanker, powered by gas, in a series of four E-class vessels being built by Scheepswerf Ferus Smit B.V.
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On Tuesday April 6 the Netherlands Coastguard noticed that the container vessel mv Escape started circling at roughly 9 nautical miles North of Vlieland due to malfunction of the rudder system. The Netherlands Coastguard ordered the offshore safety tug Guardian to mobilize from its Den Helder base to assist mv Escape.
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On Monday 29 March Boskalis completed the successful salvage operation of the Ever Given that was blocking the Suez Canal. Apart from dredging a substantial amount of sand to help free the container vessel eleven harbor tugs and the powerful Dutch flagged ALP Guard and Italian flagged Carlo seagoing tugs were deployed.
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Wagenborg Offshore has taken its third walk-to-work vessel (W2W) into service as Keizersborg. Keizersborg is used as a standby and support vessel for inspection and maintenance of unmanned platforms in both Dutch and British waters in the Southern North Sea.
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Den-Helder-managed and Dutch flagged VOS Base and Pool Express were delivered to Vroon fresh from the shipyard in 2008. These sister DP1 platform-supply vessels (PSV) were designed and purpose-built by Damen Shipyards and Vroon for Peterson’s SNS Pool operations.
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Some eight months after signing the contract COVID-style, Boomsma Shipping has installed its first two eConowind VentiFoil wind-assisted propulsion units aboard the Dutch flagged MV Frisian Sea. Even with the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, both companies worked closely together to manage the installation during
Read more about Boomsma Shipping installs and sails off with two eConowind Flatrack VentiFoils
Under strict COVID-19 requirements and protocols, the second newbuilding in a series of three new built Eco Traders 5150 – dwt, has been successfully launched. The ceremony was held at the Royal Bodewes Shipyard in Hoogezand (Netherlands).
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The year 2021 marks Spliethoff’s 100th Anniversary. Established in 1921, Spliethoff operates a fleet of over 50 modern, Dutch flagged, 1A ice-classed, multipurpose vessels, ranging from 12,000 to 23,000 DWT.
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