The Canopée is an innovative open-roof RoRo vessel built by Neptune Marine.
The vessel meets a multitude of sometimes conflicting requirements within very limited main dimensions, leading to a complex design challenge.

The Viva is an environmentally friendly 94-metre Feadship. Notable are the consistent material choices, smart use of space and complex constructions in steel, aluminium and glass.

Damen Shipyards Group built the Bryggen on behalf of public transport company Arriva, which deploys the vessel in the Danish capital Copenhagen. The ferry is an innovative design, fully electric, environmentally friendly, efficient in operation and can carry eighty people.

The Sendo Liner is an inland container ship with dimensions 110 x 11.45 x 3.2 m (LxWxT). The vessel was designed in-house by Sendo Shipping and built by Concordia Damen Shipbuilding B.V.

The 7,950 m3 trailing suction hopper dredger Scheldt River designed by-and built at Royal IHC. On 25 September 2017, the vessel was handed over to Belgian marine contractor DEME.

Multi mission Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) Seagull-301, designed and built by De Haas Maassluis B.V. of Maassluis and Ginton Naval Architects B.V. of Haarlem.

This is a vessel that differs in almost everything from what has hitherto been common in designing cutters for catching flatfish in the North Sea. The lightweight hull built with longitudinal frames and composite doors and hatches, has low hull resistance and resembles the hull of a yacht rather than a traditional North Sea cutter.

The Kroonborg is the result of an intensive collaboration of the Royal Niestern Sander (RNS) shipyard with NAM and Shell UK and a number of subcontractors to transport personnel and equipment to and from the platforms and carry out maintenance in a safe, environmentally friendly and more economically attractive way.

Lifeboat Nh1816 was voted the most thorough research and design in close cooperation with the people who go to sea in difficult conditions: the crews of KNRM. Builder Damen Shipyards Gorinchem was awarded the KNVTS Ship of the Year prize for this.

Inland tanker ‘Greenstream’ has been named most innovative ship and builder Peters Shipyards was rewarded with the KNVTS Ship of the Year award for doing so.
“It is extraordinary to see that a full LNG propulsion system was chosen for this ship,” said said jury chairman Arie Peterse. “With this, both the shipyard and the owner have shown guts.”

HMS Holland is a new type of ship for the Royal Netherlands Navy, specifically intended for tasks in the so-called low violence spectrum, such as protection of merchant ships against piracy, prevention of escalation through maritime presence, anti-smuggling, patrol tasks, etc.; so in general asymmetric warfare at sea. In addition, the ship can be used for a large number of other tasks, and the equipment can be adapted to each situation. Thus, there is modular functionality.

Partners Jansen and van der Molen have launched a particularly economical and environmentally friendly barge with the Amulet.
A type C tanker of 135 m length, a width of 14.15 m and a cargo capacity of 6752 tonnes, intended for transporting and bunkering fuel oil and mineral oils.
Uniquely, a number of interesting innovations have been applied to this vessel.

The Vox Máxima is a trailing suction hopper dredger with a hopper capacity of 31,200 m3 . The vessel was built at IHC Dredgers in Kinderdijk, but large parts of the vessel were built at other locations, including the IHC Merwede yard in Heusden. The Vox Máxima is the largest trailing suction hopper dredger ever built in the Netherlands. The increase in scale in trailing suction hopper dredgers makes it possible to build large-scale land reclamation projects at a lower cost per cubic metre.

The Doña Angela Maria T. is a 50-metre-long Damen Sea Axe Fast Crew Supplier 5009. The vessel was completed in Gorinchem based on a hull from the Damen partner yard Song Cam in Vietnam and was delivered to Mexican operator Naviera Integral. The Doña Angela Maria T. was designed according to the axe bow principle. In addition, several other innovative developments have been implemented in the design, so that the axe bow concept is now reaching maturity and proving to be a great success technically and commercially.

De Seven Oceans is een multifunctioneel en leggen van pijpleidingen, met een diameter van waterdiepte van 3000 meter. Daarnaast kan het schip installaties op de zeebodem plaatsen met behulp van een 400-tons kraan en tevens dienst doen als supportschip voor onbemande inspecties van pijpleidingen etc.

This dry cargo vessel has attracted attention because of a number of very distinctive features and requirements that have been brought together in this design. It is a vessel equipped for the transport of general cargo, containers and heavy lift.
We are dealing here with a unique vessel in terms of speed, economy and equipment.

The eye-catching oyster ship is judged by the KNVTS to be pioneering, partly because of the use of a new type of ingenious fishing gear, which can be operated by one man. Van der Zwan calls the Jacoba Prins a vessel “that sounds like clockwork”. Not only for its unusual fishing method and manoeuvrability, but also for its unique electrical installation. “Our wishes for the control of the fishing system in particular were expertly translated by Alewijnse Marine Systems into an advanced yet maintenance-friendly installation,” Van der Zwan emphasises.

For the most part, the vessel scores on the criterion of pioneering. It is so far the largest yacht built as a schooner and also in aluminium. A relatively new type of aluminium called ‘Alustar’ was used as the construction material for the entire yacht and the construction was carried out in section construction, something that is relatively rare in yacht building. Automation has been used to a great extent throughout the vessel – and not least because of the owner’s background.

Among Navy ships, The Seven Provinces of the Air Defence and Command Frigate type is a standout in terms of design. The bevelling of the ship’s external surfaces has reduced the likelihood of radar detection. Furthermore, the use of blast- and fragment-proof bulkheads and doors developed by the Royal Netherlands Navy and TNO can be considered groundbreaking. The choice of the multi-function radar system APAR can also be seen as such.

The need in the Greek ferry market for faster ferries led to this groundbreaking design of the “Blue Star”. The design was based on the existing knowledge at Van der Giessen de Noord with regard to ferry construction and the frequent model research carried out. These data were used in the design of this type of vessel.

Lifeboat Nh1816 was voted the most thorough research and design in close cooperation with the people who go to sea in difficult conditions: the crews of KNRM. Builder Damen Shipyards Gorinchem was awarded the KNVTS Ship of the Year prize for this.

The RI Magic The Rotor tug is a further development of the Tractor tugs. This type has two propellers on 1/3 L of the foreship. Of these, Kotug has 10 in service. The innovation consists in placing a third propeller at 1/3 L from the rear. This creates excellent manoeuvrability because the turning point is approximately in the middle of the boat.

The motor vessel Jowi is an inland waterway vessel , specially equipped to transport containers. The following make this ship a technically innovative design: It is an in-house development of pure Dutch entrepreneurship, which represents a great leap forward. It carries about twice as many containers as a previous generation of ships. The design draught is small and a flapping compensation system has been fitted. Due to the long length, a finite element calculation of the hull was carried out. Three engines and three propellers were used for propulsion, the middle one as a booster.