Contest Yachts has appointed Australian and New Zealand yacht importer Windcraft as its representative in the region, as the Dutch boatbuilder expands in the APAC region. The announcement, which was signed at boot Düsseldorf 2024 and recently announced on social media, will see Windcraft take on Contest’s range of blue water cruising yachts from 42ft […]
An innovative system called a Bubble Barrier, where a ‘curtain’ of air bubbles is placed along a waterway to remove plastic debris from the water, has been implemented in the municipality of Katwijk, the Netherlands. The Bubble Barrier, developed by Dutch start-up The Great Bubble Barrier, consists of a bubble curtain, a catchment system, and […]
Roboat – a research project by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute) – has successfully developed two full-scale autonomous prototype vessels for use on Amsterdam’s waterways. The boats are fully electric and can operate for up to ten hours. They are self-learning and adapt their abilities based […]