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…
Built for Urk skipper Albert Romkes, Anna UK-24 bears a strong resemblance to the latest generation of twin riggers fishing in the North Sea, but is in fact a new…
Looking for new possibilities following the cancellation of this year's exhibition, Holland Fisheries Event is presenting an online exhibition journal. This year’s exhibition at Urk had to be called off…
Current negative COVID-19 developments and government measures both in the Netherlands and other countries have convinced the board of Stichting Visserijdagen Urk, the organiser of Holland Fisheries Event, to cancel…
Holland Fisheries Event, the biennial Dutch Fisheries and Maritime Exhibition, is going ahead 2nd-3rd October, even though it had looked for a while that it could end up being postponed…
It’s not an easy time to be planning an exhibition, but the organisers of the Holland Fisheries Event, the biennial fisheries exhibition that takes place in Urk, are pushing ahead…
The eleventh Holland Fisheries Event is scheduled to take place in Urk in the 2nd-3rd October, and the organisers expect to go ahead with the event, subject to national policy.…