All articles by Robert Wielaard – Page 36
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NewsEuropean boating lobby urges EU action on single market growth
Europe’s boating sector lobby has marked its 10th anniversary with a plea to the EU to show leadership in the years ahead in boosting Europe’s single market, easing transatlantic trade frictions, encouraging innovation and reversing climate change.
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NewsKudos for Hull Vane from a French naval giant
French defense giant Naval Group has model-tested the Hull Vane and says the below-the-transom wing “significantly improves” powering, seakeeping and stealth capabilities of naval vessels and cuts their fuel consumption.
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NewsAmsterdam ‘Bubble Barrier’ traps plastic but not fish, boats
In a global first, an environmental project has been launched in the Port of Amsterdam that uses a curtain of rising air bubbles to trap plastic waste preventing it from reaching the North Sea.
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NewsOcean Cleanup tackles plastic garbage in rivers
Days after reporting a breakthrough in trapping plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean using the ocean’s current, Rotterdam-based Ocean Cleanup has unveiled a solar-powered trap that similarly capturers plastic garbage in rivers.
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NewsDutch SY builders to benefit from infrastructure upgrade
€215m upgrade of lock, bridges boon for Dutch superyacht yards
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NewsAkzoNobel reports sunny Q3 results, buys back shares
AkzoNobel, the Dutch paints and performance coatings multinational, reports a 23% rise in Q3 profit lifting it to €300m, up from €243m in the same 2018 period.
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NewsBig superyacht contract for VABO Composites
VABO Composites of the Netherlands is building one of the largest composite arrangements ever in the superyacht industry: the superstructure and mast of a yacht of Feadship member Royal Van Lent.
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NewsNL superyacht sector rushes into maritime technology lobby’s fold
36 Dutch superyacht sector companies are already saying they will join the Netherlands Maritime Technology trade lobby, more expected to follow
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NewsAwlgrip named official coatings supplier for US entry in 2021 AC
AkzoNobel, the Dutch multinational paints and performance coatings maker, says its Awlgrip brand will go on the hull of American Magic, the US entry in the 36th America’s Cup race in 2021.
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NewsVBH, Atlas Cybersecurity announce superyacht security partnership
Dutch systems integrator Van Berge Henegouwen and Atlas Cybersecurity of the US have joined forces to ramp up security on superyachts for owners, their families, guests and crew.
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Balk hires COO, ups new-build and bare hull business; triples capacity
Determined to widen its business base, refit specialist Balk Shipyard of the Netherlands is developing spiffy 50m yacht projects, ramping up bare-hull building and tripling construction capacity.
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NewsDutch superyacht lobby weighs its future course
Suddenly, in its 50th anniversary year, HISWA Holland Yachting Group’s (HHYG) 26 members are at a fork in the road. Either stay in the lobby of Dutch superyacht makers and suppliers or join the much bigger Netherlands Maritime Technology (NMT) lobby.
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NewsHeesen Yachts sells 59m full custom project
Heesen Yachts says it has found a buyer for a 59m full-custom, all aluminium yacht that has a top speed of 37kt and is known as Project Skyfall.
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NewsHISWA Holland Yachting Group dissolves
Dutch superyachts quit trade lobby; join national maritime group
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NewsRondal’s transformation delivers rich rewards
Rondal says its three-year transformation into a high-tech maker of towering composite rigs, deck gear and winches for high-end sail and motor yachts is taking it to new, unexpected markets.
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NewsMARIN launches foil research project at Monaco
Foils are everywhere these days – from water taxis to sailing yachts – but not enough is known about their performance in unsteady conditions.
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NewsVBH opens German office
Dutch systems integrator Van Berge Henegouwen has opened an office in northern Germany in a bid to ramp up its presence worldwide. It is VBH’s third location outside the Netherlands.
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Product LaunchOn eve of MYS, AkzoNobel unveils repairable single-stage topcoat
Dutch paints and performance coatings maker AkzoNobel has launched Awlgrip HDT, a single-stage repairable topcoat.
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NewsHull Vane, Naiad jointly launch ‘Dynamic’ Hull Vane
Underwater spoiler to be shown for the first time at Monaco next week
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NewsRecord attendance of nearly 30,000 at HISWA-in-Water show
Despite very Dutch weather – leaden skies, sunny spells, thunderstorms on a loop – organisers of the 2019 HISWA-in-Water Boat Show say their event attracted nearly 30,000 visitors this month.
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