COSCO Shipping Europe B.V. held its official opening ceremony in its Rotterdam offices at Strevelsweg 700 on Tuesday the 14th of May 2013. COSCO Shipping Company’s CEO, Capt. Han Guomin, had specially flown in from Guangzhou to chair the event. It was attended by clients of his company’s fleet of semi-submersible heavylift vessels. Executives of [...]
On 20 April 2013 the LNG carrier ‘Al Khuwair’ has arrived at Gate LNG terminal at the Maasvlakte Rotterdam. The arrival of the Al Khuwair marks the first time an LNG carrier of the Q-flex series calls at Rotterdam. The carrier has a capacity of 217,000 m3 liquefied natural gas (LNG) with a length of [...]
According to the Environmental Ship Index, the container ship Cosco Pride was the most sustainable vessel to call at the port of Rotterdam last year. Cosco Container Lines actually had five ships in Rotterdam’s top ten sustainable ships in 2012. Saturday 20 April, the Cosco Pride was back in Rotterdam. In honour of its top [...]
Cargill and the Port of Rotterdam Authority have reached agreement on expanding the current site in the Botlek area by 28,000m2. Cargill has been operating from the Botlek area since 1984, and has both an inland shipping jetty and a sea jetty there. Thanks to a previous agreement with the Port of Rotterdam Authority, the [...]
Heerema Marine Contractors’ new Deepwater Construction Vessel Aegir, one of the largest deepwater construction vessels in the world, is expected to arrive in Rotterdam today for final outfitting. She began her long journey from Daewoo’s Korean shipyard in January this year and, upon arrival to the Netherlands, the vessel will undergo the installation of the [...]
The European Union will co-finance to the tune of €5 million from the TEN-T Programme a project to build a state-of-the-art multimodal container terminal at the Port of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The future Rotterdam World Gateway (RWG) terminal will aim to have the highest modal shift ratio for a container terminal in Europe. The project, [...]
Kotug performed a special rig move in the 1st Werkharbour, Rotterdam. At the Keppel Verolme Shipyard four KOTUG Rotortugs turned the jack-up rig “Prime Exerter” on behalf of Dutch Offshore Contractors. The rig was placed on the combined barges ARK 13, 14 and 15 (50 meters wide, 90 meters long). The barges were transported from [...]
The Port of Rotterdam Authority starts a new campaign which aims to strengthen the brand ‘Port of Rotterdam’ around the world. The pay-off ‘Change Your Perspective’ will position Rotterdam as a ground breaking port, in order to emphasise the added value of the port for existing and potential customers worldwide. The new campaign was kicked [...]
In connection with maintenance work on the installation vessel SEA JACK in the Keppel Verolme yard in Rotterdam, a serious accident happened this morning to one of A2SEA’s subcontractors. A 43 year-old Danish employee from the Esbjerg-based company Peter Harbo A/S died in a work accident. “We are deeply sorry to have to inform that [...]
On the 7th of December 2012 the naming ceremony of Anthony Veder’s new LNG carrier took place at the Cruise Terminal in the heart of the city of Rotterdam. The Coral Energy is world’s first direct driven dual-fuel ice class 1A LNG carrier. The development of the Coral Energy started in 2010 in close cooperation [...]
