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The Belgian word “Pagaddertoren” refers to a small watchtower used by shipowners in the 16th century (Antwerp. Ghent, Bruges). Days before the anticpated arrival the owner would camp at the top of the tower scanning the […]

Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. has placed an order with Samsung for the construction of a power cable laying vessel. The vessel with an overall length of 100 meters and with a […]

“It has been towed beyond the environment” The incident with the Kirki, a 210 metre long oil tanker, which caught fire in Western Australia was the subject of this famous Clarke & Dawe sketch, […]

Crude oil otherwise known as petroleum (from Greek: petra (rock) + Latin: oleum (oil)) is a composition of hydrocarbons (chemicals composed solely of hydrogen and carbon in various molecular arrangements) and other […]

HistoryIACS can trace its origins back to the International Load Line Convention of 1930 and its recommendations. The Convention recommended collaboration between classification societies to secure “as much uniformity as […]

The De Beers diamond recovery vessel PEACE IN AFRICA (former Dock Express 20) When most people think about diamond mining, they picture shafts extending down into the earth for a […]

Germany’s cabinet on Wednesday adopted a plan to speed along the construction of offshore wind parks in the North Sea, paving the way for a targeted 25,000 megawatts of capacity […]

The CANARY ISLANDS OCEANIC PLATFORM (PLOCAN) is a new facility foroceanic research, created as a Consortium of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science and the Canary Islands Government, as […]

Zaha Hadid architects has won a competition for the port house – headquarters of Antwerp Port Authority (APA), Antwerp, Belgium. The new port house design consists of two entities: the existing fire station […]