Tag: Damen Shipyards

Damen has announced that it will be one of the partners in PortXL, the first start-up accelerator programme specifically designed for the Port of Rotterdam.

 The close working relationship between Delta Marine and the Damen Shipyards Group has produced a new vessel design – called a Damen Renewables Service Vessel 3315. The Scotland-based offshore wind service provider recently awarded Damen a construction contract looking towards a launch in early 2017.“For the last couple of years we’ve been working on this new design with Damen Shipyards Hardinxveld,” says Delta Marine General Manager Dave McNaughtan. “We came up with concepts – gave them to Damen, who would put those ideas on the drawing board. They gave their expertise – adding the engineering for example – and then came back to us.”"Client feedback is very important to us," says Damen Shipyards Hardinxveld Managing Director Jos van Woerkum. "It has been great to work so closely with Delta Marine to develop this new design."“Damen are very good at developing their vessels,” continues Mr McNaughtan. “Even their established vessels like Multi Cats and Shoalbusters are continually getting better.” The new design, having evolved from a Multi Cat, proves his point: “We have changed the design by moving the wheelhouse forward and leaving the aft deck open. Crucially, we’ve managed to keep it under the 500-tonne mark. This was a critical ...

The Damen Shipyards Group is shipping a total of 22 vessels from several Damen shipyards aboard the heavy-lift vessel Happy Star

  Thursday 23 July saw senior representatives of Maersk Supply Service, DeepOcean UK and the Damen Shipyards Group gather at Damen Shipyards Galati, Romania to witness the launching of subsea support vessel Maersk Connector. The vessel is owned and operated by Maersk Supply Service and is built to contract for a seven year charter agreement with DeepOcean. Maersk Connector is the second of a new generation of cable-laying vessels developed by the Damen Shipyards Group. Equipped with survey and trenching capabilities, she will extend DeepOcean’s capabilities in the larger cable-laying end of the market, representing a new focus on interconnector projects in addition to oil and gas sector and renewables work. Her 7,000 tonne carousel will make her well suited for installation and burial projects from land-fall to deep water and also for operations in remote geographical locations. The vessel is designed to meet the high standards demanded by North Sea oil and gas customers. Pierre Boyde, Commercial Director at DeepOcean, said: “We are delighted to see the positive progress being made on this high quality Damen vessel and are very pleased with the working relationships with our partners. Last week we signed our first project for the Maersk Connector - on ...

  On 18 June, 2015, the Damen-built ART 80-32 Hybrid Rotortug RT Emotion was named in the Port of Bremerhaven during KOTUG’s annual Herring Party.  Ms. Annika Bootsman-Kleberg, Member of the Wallenius’ Board and granddaughter of Olof Wallenius, Swedish entrepreneur and founder of Wallenius Lines, performed the naming of RT Emotion in attendance of her family, friends, KOTUG’s business relations and representatives of Damen Shipyards Group. KOTUG chose the Lady Sponsor to express its gratitude for the long-term relationship between the two companies and to express appreciation for Wallenius Lines’ strong focus on innovative technical and environmental solutions.  KOTUG’s CEO Ard-Jan Kooren states: “We’re delighted that Annika Bootsman-Kleberg accepted our invitation to name our latest hybrid next-generation Rotortug RT Emotion. We appreciate the leadership of Wallenius Lines in reducing its environmental footprint and encouraging its suppliers, customers, business partners and stakeholders to reduce their environmental impact.”  KOTUG nowadays operates three hybrid Rotortugs. RT Emotion commenced her towage activities in the German Port of Bremerhaven recently and RT Adriaan and RT Evolution are operating in the Port of Rotterdam. RT Evolution and RT Emotion, both 32- metre hybrid next-generation ART80-32 Rotortugs® are new Damen-built tugs and designed by an alliance of ...

  The European Innovation Project LeanShips – Low Energy And Near To Zero Emissions Ships – will demonstrate the effectiveness and reliability of energy saving and emission reduction technologies at real scale. LeanShips is one of the first projects funded under the new European Research and Innovation Framework Program HORIZON 2020. Project scheme(Please click for a larger view) The project is coordinated by Damen Shipyards Group and jointly managed by the Netherlands Maritime Technology Foundation (NMT), the Center of Maritime Technologies (CMT) from Germany and Cetena, the Italian Ship Research Centre. LeanShips officially started on 1 May 2015 with a grant of 17 million Euro. The large project partnership consists of ship owners, shipyards, equipment suppliers and research institutes. In total, 46 partners (81% from industry) from 12 EU member states and one associated country are part of the project. LeanShips aims to put innovations into practice by carrying out eight demonstrator show cases that combine technologies for efficient and less polluting vessels with end-users’ needs and requirements. Dedicated teams of equipment manufacturers (technology providers), shipyards (technology integrators) and ship owners (technology users) as well as rule makers will make certain that the innovations developed in the project are matured ...

A in 2 loading ports of Vietnam, loaded in the hold and on deck of mv Svenja of Shipping Company SAL Heavy Lift

Promar Shipping Services has christened the first of two Damen PSV 3300 vessels

Maersk Supply Service, DeepOcean UK and Damen have held the keel laying ceremony of Maersk Supply Service's new subsea support vessel at Damen Shipyards Galati

MSC Magnifica getting repaired at the Damen Shipyard