VCU in Urk has delivered a new fishing vessel for a Dutch inland waters fishing company. The 20-metre LAO Heidi HK-78 has a 5.40 metre breadth and a draft of…
The populist Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) which has emerged as from Holland’s provincial elections with a heavy win has propelled a number of fishing industry figures into the Flevoland Government, including…
The eleventh Holland Fisheries Event took place in Urk last week, opening on Friday and continuing into Saturday, bringing around 2000 visitors, mainly from Belgium and the Netherlands, to De…
After the 2020 event was cancelled due to Covid-19, the Holland Fisheries Event is back this year, taking place 7-8th October at The Koningshof in Urk, and this time one…
Holland Fisheries Event, the Dutch fisheries and maritime trade fair with an international flavour, is taking place for the twelfth time in October this year. Scheduled to take place on…
The EFICE group of fish auctions, Visveiling Urk (Urk and Harlingen), Zeeuwse Visveilingen (Breskens and Vlissingen) and Visafslag Lauwersoog is making the the switch to the Aucxis Kosmos network. The existing auction infrastructure…
When Stéphane Vedelaar and Nina Degryse ordered a new trawler to replace their existing shrimper Zeevonk BOU-24, they went to TCD in Urk – and to TCD’s neighbour Piet Brouwer…
From January next year PO Urk will be the only remaining member of Dutch industry federation Visned as four other producer organisations terminate their memberships. VisNed has operated as an…
With concept behind it of sourcing expertise from the maritime community around it, Urk-based Werft Shipbuilding is both new to the market yet has decades of relevant experience at its…
Seine netter Stella Polaris UK-22 has been through a big refit before, when owner Pauw Romkes acquired the former Marliona D-59 back in 2005. Fifteen years on the decision was…