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the North Sea

Progress reports, precedents, and perspectives from the project to rebuild Doggerland, collected here as the vision moves from map to water.

Aerial view of the Q13a-A platform in the Dutch North Sea, with the green containerised PosHYdon hydrogen plant visible on its topsides

28 July 2026Industry News

Seawater In, Hydrogen Out

PosHYdon has produced the first green hydrogen on a working North Sea platform: offshore wind, seawater, and electrolysis, 13 km off Scheveningen. The energy model Nieuw Doggerland is built around just moved from paper to salt water.

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The trailing suction hopper dredger Seaway seen from the air at dusk during her North Sea trials, suction pipe gantries lining the deck and ships on the horizon

28 July 2026Industry News

Seaway: New Land, 31,000 Cubic Metres at a Time

Boskalis has taken delivery of the Seaway, a 178-metre mega hopper dredger built by Royal IHC; the largest ever built in the Netherlands. Ships in this class are how islands actually get made.

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Aerial view of a Perun rocket lifting off from the tree-lined Ustka range on Poland's Baltic coast, its exhaust flame bright against beach and forest

22 July 2026Industry News

The North Sea Learns to Launch

An ESA-backed floating platform off Esbjerg expects its first rocket in the second half of this year. The North Sea is becoming a launch coast before we have laid a single stone; that is precisely the precedent our spaceport needs.

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A snakelocks anemone among healthy seagrass on a sandy seabed in UK waters

18 July 2026Industry News

Restoration Goes Industrial: Seagrass in Cornwall, Oysters on Wind Farms

Two announcements, one message: rebuilding marine life in UK and North Sea waters is no longer a pilot activity. It is becoming infrastructure, and that is exactly what Nieuw Doggerland's ecology programme needs it to be.

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A native oyster resting in clear shallow water on a pebbled Orkney shore

13 July 2026Industry News

Fifteen Million Oysters: Orkney Sets the Pace for the North Sea

The UK's largest marine rewilding project is releasing 15 million native oysters around Orkney. Nieuw Doggerland's 50-million target suddenly looks less like a dream and more like a scaling problem.

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The Windpiper, Boskalis's subsea rock installation vessel, moored at the company quay in Rotterdam

13 July 2026Industry News

Windpiper: The Ship That Could Lay Our First Stones

Boskalis has christened the world's largest subsea rock installation vessel. It is exactly the class of ship Nieuw Doggerland will need to armour its first safe harbours and islands.

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