Holland Shipyards Group to build new survey vessel

Seawork 10th - 12th June 2025	Speed@Seawork 9th June 2025	Seawork Conferences

The 26th edition of Europe’s largest commercial marine and workboat exhibition provides businesses the opportunity to showcase their services, equipment, vessels and supplies to an international audience.	Speed@Seawork on 9th June in Cowes offers a sector specific event that showcases fast vessels operating at high speed for security interventions and Search & Rescue.	"Get Set for Workboat 2050", in partnership with Seawork, Maritime Journal and The Workboat Association, is a series of conferences which deal with decarbonisation and all aspects of improving OPEX efficiencies.
Visit the Seawork Website	Speed@Seawork on the Seawork Website	View on Seawork

Waterschap Scheldestromen has awarded Holland Shipyards Group a build contract for a new survey vessel.

Building of the vessel will start in March at Holland Shipyards

The new vessel, a replacement of their current vessel, is expected to enter service by the end of 2021.

The vessel measures 15.15m by 4.90m and will be suitable for surveying along the Zeeland coast, up to five nautical miles offshore. It will be provided with two permanent magnet motors, each with a capacity of 85kW, and a variable speed generator set, ensuring optimal fuel consumption and operational reliability by switching generators on and off automatically.

For its hydrographic survey duties it is equipped with both a singlebeam and multibeam echosounders.

While launching as a hybrid the ship’s design takes into account future plans to be potentially converted into a battery powered full electric vessel.

Building of the vessel will start in March at the Holland Shipyards Group’s yard in Werkendam.

By Jake Frith