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Magazine for maritime professionals | Volume 142, January 2021 | www.swzmaritime.nl 1 C 30 C 90 M 20 M 45 Y 10 Y 0 K 40 K 15 ‘Het juiste schip voor de juiste tijd en plaats’ 100 JAAR SPLIETHOFF Aye, aye, AI Groene Climate smart methanol design Online SMM to ‘Schip bestaat op de The MDV fi shery focus on digital tekentafel, nu nog een case transformation geschikte motor’ 01-01_SWZ_CVR.indd 1 19-01-21 12:14 SEARCH Hydraulic engineering Experts & Surveyors Manoeuvring systems, Naval Architects consulting (dredging/offshore/wind energy) propeller shafts and seals engineers Doldrums B.V. Marine & Technical Surveyors Machinefabriek De Waal The Offshore Partners B.V. 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With customization Email: [email protected] possible on a large scale, you will www.heatmaster.nl always fi nd the product that fi ts your Heatmaster, your hottest innovator requirements. 2 02-48_SWZ_ADV_Colofon.indd 2 19-01-21 13:41 IN THIS EDITION Human and autonomy teaming up 14 Good shipowners keep Smart data analysis and machine learning are used to make shipping and shipbuilding both smarter and on sailing safer. This brings out the question: Which tasks do we assign to ma- As the front page already suggests, this January edition chines and what role is left for hu- contains a special article about the Amsterdam based man beings? shipping company Spliethoff that earlier this month celebrated its 100th anniversary. It’s not a unique fact as there are still several companies in the Netherlands even 18 100 jaar Spliethoff in shipping that reached this memorable fact, yet it is so- mething to be proud of. De Amsterdamse Spliethoff Group Shipping is a highly dynamic industry in which fi rms start up bestaat 100 jaar. Onze redacteur and can go down again in just a few years’ time. And it's a Gerrit de Boer deed uitgebreid on- world of constantly buying and selling not only ships, but also derzoek naar de wordingsgeschie- whole companies. A company that gains the 100-year Royal sta- denis van wat nu met 113 schepen tus can be taken over just a couple of years later as we learned een van Nederlands grootste rede- with the history of the biggest shipping company the Nether- rijen is. lands has known, Royal Nedlloyd. Still, reaching the 100-year status is something to be proud of, but in shipping it represents hardly any extra value. In owning Kip, ei en groene methanol and operating ships, the two most important things are getting 38 the cargo and having the right ship at the right time. And that’s what Spliethoff has succeeded in during its 100 years of exis- tence. It’s also why another over 100 years old company like Ro- Pieter ’t Hart heeft als coördinator yal Wagenborg still exists, as it follows the same dogma. goede hoop op een vervolg op het Spliethoff started its fi rst 25 years of existence as a shipbroker project Green Maritime Methanol, and freight forwarder to change to owning ships from 1946 on. dat dezer maanden uitmondt in tal Since then, it survived a lot of crises. Between 2010-2020, ship- van eindrapporten. Daaronder zijn ping went through a severe fi nancial crisis in which banks, es- de bevindingen van deelnemers als pecially in Germany and the Netherlands, retreated from fi nan- Wagenborg, de marine, de Rijks- cing ships. The principal investors in ships often sold their rederij en waterbouwers Boskalis property to private equity companies that fl ooded the markets. en Van Oord. Ships were sold for a fraction of the original price and sailed JANUARY 2021 against far lower rates thereby poisoning the market. Shipowners that fi nanced their ships cautiously complained ‘good shipowners were driven out by bad ones’. Yet, the Contents Spliethoff story also learns that next to ships, you also need MARITIMESWZ • cargo. So, in the end (last two years), there is justice: Spliethoff 4 Dutch news was able to buy fi fteen ships from the ‘bad ones’ (Beluga, Han- 7 Global news sa Heavy Lift). A lot about Spliethoff, but don’t forget to read Frans Veenstra’s 8 Maritime monthly article about building sustainable fi shing ships, the latest about 29 The MDV fi shery case smart shipping technology by Annelinde Gerritsen and about 36 SMM goes digital the research-case of the methanol ship by Sander Klos. 42 Mars report 44 Verenigingsnieuws KNVTS Antoon Oosting Editor-in-Chief [email protected] Cover: The Brouwersgracht will be the fi rst 12,500-DWT open-top multi-purpose ship type DP2 B suitable for both heavy lift transportation and offshore installation. This innovative vessel, a design of Conoship International, Groningen, will comply with the requirements of IMO Tier III and the Polar Code and have ice class 1A. 3 03-03_SWZ_INHOUD.indd 3 19-01-21 13:11 DUTCH NEWS SWZ’S EDITORS Huisman to build 2600-mt crane for OIM Wind's new installation vessel Huisman has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) wind market over the past years, for exam- of the crane. At the same time, the Lambda with Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore for the ple to installation vessels Seajacks Scylla boom design ensures a lightweight and stiff delivery of a 2600-metric-tonne Leg Encir- and Van Oord’s Aeolus. design. Stiff construction of this boom also cling Crane (LEC) for OIM Wind’s BT-220IU The BT-220IU Wind Installation Unit has leads to reduced motion at the crane tip. Wind Installation Unit. The LOI includes the been designed by CIMC’s engineering of- Its small tail swing allows for optimised use option for the delivery of a similar crane for fice in Yantai, P.R.