In 2020, Damen signed a contract with Blue Amigo for the delivery of nine passenger vessels. The ferries will operate services between Rotterdam and the Drecht cities in the Netherlands in a service known as the Waterbus.
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Damen identified that six of the vessels – hybrid carbon fibre water buses that will operate fast, inter-city routes – would require a thruster that had not been seen before. What was needed was a fully azimuthing, 360-degree thruster that would make...