Equipment
Hulls shipped from Shanghai to Rotterdam
(Posted on 27/06/19)Heavy-lift vessel Black Marlin departed Shanghai on Monday, 17th June. On deck with eighteen Concordia Damen inland shipping vessel hulls and a Damen Crane Barge 6324, bound for Rotterdam. Concordia Damen regularly conducts such heavy-lift transportations as a means of providing its customers with cost-efficient vessels.The hulls...
MacGregor’s TTS acquisition postponed
(Posted on 27/06/19)MacGregor, part of Cargotec, announced on 8 February, 2018 that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the marine and offshore businesses of TTS Group ASA. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals from the competition authorities in Germany, South Korea and China. MacGregor announced the approval from the German regulator...
PortX and Helm team up
(Posted on 27/06/19)PortX (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Helm Operations (Victoria, BC, Canada) have announced that they have signed a new strategic partnership agreement to combine PortX’s cutting-edge AI-based port dispatching system, OptiPort, with Helm CONNECT, the world’s leading harbour dispatching and operations software.Already used...
LiUP crane driver elevator for MHCs
(Posted on 21/06/19)Liebherr Maritime has presented its new LiUP crane driver elevator for mobile harbour cranes at this year’s terminal operator trade fair, TOC Europe in Rotterdam this week. The in-house developed lift has an innovative drive technology and is powered by an electric motor with lithium-ion battery and energy recovery function...
Nippon applies low friction technology
(Posted on 21/06/19)Following increased market demand for its low-friction hydrogel-containing hull coatings, Nippon Paint Marine (NPM) has now applied the revolutionary technology to its standard range of antifoulings to provide a cost-effective solution for reducing fuel consumption.Hydrogel, already used in the company’s LF-Sea 150 HyB and...
Chains and Anchors agreement
(Posted on 17/06/19)On 12th of June, Damen Anchor & Chain Factory (AKF) signed a joint partnership agreement with Fendercare. The agreement came about from a mutual understanding that both parties’ clients were seeking wider availability of products.Under the agreement, the partnership will build up complementary stock of anchors, chains...
