Although Leiden’s involvement in colonialism and slavery was not as obvious as in the Netherlands’ harbour cities, its leaders, residents and university directly profited, according to new research.

Steve Bee of VPS discusses the potential for cashew nut shell liquid to be used as a biofuel component in bunker blends.

At the centre of it all was the Dutch East India Company ... Some merchants would spread lies, like a VOC ship sinking, just to drop the stock price and make money. If that sounds familiar, you’ve ...

In 1606, the crew of Dutch VOC vessel Duyfken, under the command of captain Willem Janszoon, made landfall near Mapoon, on the Cape York Peninsula, and constituted the first recorded contact on ...

Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica that were previously believed to be pirate ships are ...

Divers recently identified two Danish slave ships, Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, during an excavation near ...

A HUGE explosion has reportedly ripped through a 500ft container ship in the North Sea. The Dutch vessel Victoria L was seen up in flames following the blast with an emergency rescue mission now ...

Centuries after Danish ships carrying enslaved people from West Africa disappeared in the Caribbean, the charred and ...