Container Ships

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

A contractor consortium has completed the build of a 500m tugboat quay on the southern side of Rotterdam’s Yangtze canal, providing 12 berths equipped with shore power.

27th July 2026

Rotterdam canal widened by 500 metres as part of port expansion

27th July 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

The Port of Tyne has launched a major clean-up operation after thousands of plastic pellets, known as nurdles, were spilled into the River Tyne following Sunday’s collision between a wind turbine installation vessel and a berthed containership.

23rd July 2026

Plastic clean-up under way after WTIV and containership collision

23rd July 2026

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A tug crew has been awarded for boarding a burning, explosives-riddled tanker to prevent the leak of a million barrels of oil in an operation that was given just a five per…

25th November 2025

Incredible footage: Tug crew save burning tanker laden with explosives

25th November 2025

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A single loose wire caused the blackout that led to the Dali container ship crashing into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last year, an investigation has revealed.

20th November 2025

Single loose wire caused ‘Dali’ fatal bridge crash

20th November 2025

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The loss of up to 350 containers from the MSC Zoe in 2019 has prompted the Dutch Rijkwaterstaat to implement a new Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) area to provide guidance to captains.

12th November 2025

Container spill prompts new VTS area in Netherlands

12th November 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

The ability to handle an incident involving a mega container ship off Europe’s congested coastline was debated at Seatrade Maritime’s annual Salvage & Wreck Conference in London last week.

19th December 2024

Salvaging container ships in European waters

19th December 2024

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Container terminals belonging to Hutchison Ports at the Port of Rotterdam will be equipped with shore power beginning in 2028, the Port of Rotterdam says.

12th September 2024

Shore power deal signed for Rotterdam

12th September 2024

VESSELS

VESSELS

The long-established expertise of the Dutch salvage industry has been demonstrated recently with two of the Netherlands leading contractors reporting diverse operations close to and not so close to their home bases.

23rd July 2024

Salvors step in to save groundings, sinkings and fires

23rd July 2024

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

As the authorities in Baltimore prepare to untangle the container ship Dali from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, the local community along with the wider shipping industry are starting to untangle the circumstances…

4th April 2024

Salvaging the ‘Dali’ after fatal bridge collapse

4th April 2024

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Norwegian specialist marine insurance group Gard has published a study examining container stack losses when ships in this rapidly growing sector encounter bad weather at sea.

5th March 2024

Container losses at sea: Report

5th March 2024