World first: new DEME ship can load 30,000 tons and set foundation piles as high as an apartment block (and you can play badminton on it) (Zwijndrecht)
The Orion is a colossus measuring 216 meters long, 49 meters wide and almost 17 meters deep. The ship was made in China and Germany, but the concept came from the engineers at DEME in Zwijndrecht. The Orion was christened on Friday evening in Nieuwdorp in the Netherlands, near the port of Vlissingen. The ship … Read more