Oman-bound 375-ton column falls of bulker Mask in the Adriatic Sea
A 375-ton column has fallen off its bulk carrier while travelling from the port of Marghera, near Venice to Oman on January 24. The accident occurred off the Italian Adriatic shore near Ancona, in central-eastern...Read more
Port Esbjerg’s LHM 800 springs into action
Port Esbjerg’s heavy lift giant, the Liebherr LHM 800 crane, has sprung into action unloading an 80 ton box with a rotor unit. With the new LHM 800 in operation, Port Esbjerg becomes the only port...Read more
Hareket orders Tadano crane to as Turkish wind turbine market is booming
The Turkish crane service provider ad heavy lift expert, Hareket, has turned to Tadano, ordering a new Tadano CC 38.650-1. The company is expecting to take delivery of the crane at the end of the...Read more
Jan De Nul’s heavy lift vessel Les Alizés departs China
Less than a month after jack-up vessel Voltaire departed China, Jan De Nul’s heavy lift vessel Les Alizés has left the CMHI Haimen Shipyard in China and is currently also heading for Europe.Read more
Liebherr, Salerno Container Terminal partner up again in crane deal
The Salerno Container Terminal, roughly 50 kilometres south of Naples, in southern Italy, added another Liebherr mobile harbour crane to its fleet. The new LHM 600 High Rise (HR) will increase the port handling capacity...Read more
Value Maritime: first Filtree orders for newly built container vessels
Purus Marine and Nordic Hamburg have placed an order for four of Value Maritime’s Filtree Systems including Clean Loop System and 30% Carbon Capture. It is the first time that Filtree Systems have been ordered...Read more
Silvasti transports a scrubber through the ice to the port of Hamina
Silvasti, a Finnish transportation company, delivered a scrubber from Savonlinna to the port of Hamina, in southeastern Finland. The cargo was moved on a 20-axle modular trailer with the aid of a pusher truck, needed...Read more
Longship and Ankerbeer develop new ship design suitable for breakbulk and project cargo
Groningen based shipping company Longship have joined forces with the compatriot naval architect, Ankerbeer to develop an innovative ship design. The new design aims to reduce emissions and is compliant with the EU Stage V...Read more
Boskalis to build its 100th offshore wind farm
Boskalis, a Dutch company specialised in maritime infrastructure construction and maintenance, will build an offshore wind farm off the United States coastline. As the company posted on LinkedIn, this will be the “100th offshore windfarm...Read more
US military equipment sent to Poland via the Netherlands
Almost 1,300 vehicles and other military equipment will be traveling from the port of Vlissingen, in the southwestern Netherlands to Poland and Lithuania. The first batch of cargo was delivered on Monday, 9 January at...Read more
HEBO expands fleet with 15 barges acquired from Boskalis
Dutch maritime company HEBO has expanded its transport and heavy lift fleet with a couple of recent acquisitions. The company has added 15 flat top barges with lengths between 50 and 85 metres, equipped for...Read more
Vitruvian concept sets to shake up traditional monopiles installation methods
A new concept vessel, called Vitruvian, for the transport and installation of monopiles offshore wind farms has been brought forward by TSC Offshore Corporation, a CMIC unit, and Offshoretronic. The two companies have signed a...Read more
Blomberg Stevedoring doubles lifting capacity in Vaasa with new Liebherr crane
Oy Blomberg Stevedoring, a unit of KWH Logistics Group, has acquired a Liebherr LHM 600 crane for the port of Vaskiluoto in Vaasa, Finland, making it one of the largest harbour cranes operating in the...Read more
Grupo CICE turns to Konecranes for heavy lift capacity as terminal throughput rises
In August 2022, Veracruz terminal operator Corporación Integral de Comercio Exterior S.A. de C.V. (Grupo CICE) commissioned a Konecranes Gottwald ESP.9 mobile harbor crane. Only a few months later, the company has put in a...Read more
Wärtsilä tech ordered for SAL’s Orca Class newbuilds
Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has been selected as the hybrid propulsion system supplier for the Orca Class heavy lift vessels being built at the Wuhu Shipyard in China. The vessels are being built for the...Read more
Walter Tosto WTB transports secondary reformer
The Bucharest-based branch of the Italian Tosto Group, Walter Tosto WTB (WTB), handled the shipment of the secondary reformer, used in chemical plants.Read more
SafeLifting Europe: a trusted brand
Brand storyWith assets growing in weight and size, much is asked of the lifting and hoisting tools used in the offshore industry. To meet this development, SafeLifting Europe is constantly working on keeping its portfolio of...Read more
Mammoet replaces nuclear plant steam generators in France
Mammoet has developed a custom solution to replace steam generators at Framatome’s Flamanville FA1 Nuclear Power Plant, in Normandy, France.Read more