Boskalis fined in Mauritius

The busy Rotterdam berth of Boskalis in the Waalhaven Basin will get shore power, potentially saving 1,600 tpa of CO2E

Boskalis is to build an “overnight stop” inland port on the river Rhine, on the border between the Netherlands and Germany

Dutch Royal IHC shipyard is, as anticipated, to be taken over by a consortium of Dutch and Belgian companies, with full support from the Dutch government and banks

Dutch Royal IHC shipyard may be taken over by a consortium made up of private equity investor HAL Investments and the dredging and marine contractors Van Oord and DEME

Boskalis is to sever a section of its cargo shipping activities. The Dutch dredging/civil engineering and maritime infrastructure and services group plans to cut the loss-making “lower segment” of seaborne offshore-related project cargo transportation activities and to sell 11 closed-stern type IIb and III heavy lift ships

Qingdao Haixi Heavy-duty Machinery Co Ltd (HHMC) recently handed over two ship-to-shore container gantry cranes to CHCL Cargo Handling Corporation Ltd in Port Louis