Home Subsea Van Oord christens 5th USV as brand-new CEO takes control of
April 26, 2024, by Nadja Skopljak
Van Oord has actually held the christening event for its 5th unmanned self-governing study vessel (USV), established collectively with DEMCON Unmanned Systems.
Source: Van Oord
The VO: X Barentsz USV followed Van Oord’s internal study department and DEMCON Unmanned Systems collectively established and ran 4 USVs in the previous years.
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According to Van Oord, this brand-new bigger vessel is an advancement of the 4 other USVs, building on the very same software and hardware USV platform system and broadening with brand-new innovations and more performances for overseas operations.
VO: X Barentsz was christened by Lucienne van Leeuwen-Koper, better half of Michel Koper who is the Director Survey at Van Oord, on April 25 at the Van Oord head workplace jetty in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
The christening event likewise marked the goodbye of Pieter van Oord who led Van Oord as CEO for over 15 years and has actually been with the business for an overall of 30, along with the inaugural main act of the brand-new CEO Govert van Oord, the fifth-generation CEO for the family-owned business.
Van Oord likewise christened 2 brand-new hybrid water injection dredgers, Rijn and Rhône, stated to be amongst the most sustainable water injection dredgers to date and will have the ultra low emission vessel (ULEV) notation of the category society.
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