The Netherlands sits at a choke point of the global chip industry, home to the only company that builds the most advanced lithography machines.
ASML's EUV systems are indispensable to leading-edge fabs everywhere, NXP adds chip design, and Rotterdam keeps the country central to logistics. Dutch coverage is dominated by hardware.
Larsen & Toubro and Hitachi Energy have signed a multi-billion-dollar framework agreement with TenneT for up to six offshore wind HVDC projects in the North Sea, covering 8 GW of capacity across four named links.
The US Department of Justice unsealed an indictment charging three Russian nationals with running bulletproof hosting services that enabled ransomware attacks causing over $62 million in damages, while the EU announced parallel sanctions.
Thyssenkrupp Steel has suspended its own barge transport of raw materials to Duisburg due to low Rhine water levels during a heatwave, turning to chartered vessels and reducing blast furnace production.
The CMA CGM Notre Dame, the world's largest LNG-powered container ship, received its first bio-LNG bunkering at the Port of Rotterdam, supplied by TotalEnergies.