“Biggest cocaine seizure ever in the Port of Antwerp”. (Bervoet, 2020) On the 5th of November 2020, the Belgian newspaper ‘De Tijd’ wrote about a record seizure of cocaine in the port of Antwerp. The illicit drug trafficking is a problem since many years which seems not to get solved. The main question …

De veiligheid komt in het geding in de Westerschelde. De loodsen dreigen met acties om schepen groter dan 339.9 meter niet meer te beloodsen naar de haven van Antwerpen. Ultra Large Container Ships (ULCS) die 10.000 TEU of meer vervoeren kruisen elkaar steeds vaker, wat gevaar oplevert in de nauwe bochten …

In the present work the possibility to use Liquefied Natural Gas as a fuel for naval ships has been investigated. The main research question is: "Is it viable to convert the hydrographic survey vessels to the use of Liguefied Natural Gas (LNG) as fuel?" More specifically the focus lay on how to convert …

A few years ago the Maritime Pilots Institute Netherlands (MPIN) was asked to carry out practical research aimed at developing a simple method to predict wind loads on huge constructions. For practical reasons the method should not be time consuming. Some reasons for the initiative were the following. …