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Edison Chouest subsidiary Alpha Marine Services, L.L.C., Galliano, La., is being awarded a $25,266,636 firm-fixed-price contract for the time charter of M/V Dove, a U.S.-flagged, anchor-handling, towing supply vessel that will be used to support the Sea-Based X-Band Radar Platform, also called SBX-1, which is a converted semisubmersible, originally built in the Vyborg shipyard ...

With several of Alaska's ferries near the end of their useful service lives, Alaska Ship & Drydock was selected as construction manager and general contractor to potentially build the next generation boat--the new Alaska Class Ferry--for the Alaska Marine Highway System.Alaska Ship & Drydock, which operates the Ketchikan ...

USNS Spearhead, the first of the U.S. Navy's joint high-speed vessels designed for rapid intra-theater transport of troops and military equipment, was christened September 17, 2011 during a ceremony at shipbuilder Austal USA in Mobile, Ala.Military Sealift Command will own and operate Spearhead and the other other joint high-speed vessels, or JHSVs, tha ...

"We are using many diverse methods, techniques and tools to ensure that oil and gas operations on the Outer Continental Shelf are being conducted in the safest and most environmentally-responsible manner," says BOEMRE Director Michael R. Bromwich.BOEMRE has completed the first post-Macondo unannounced spill drill to test the new requirements of subsea containment capabilit ...

Maersk Line, Limited and Rickmers-Linie (America), Inc. have announced a partnership to provide breakbulk and project cargo shipping using two newly-built multi-purpose ships to be operated under the U.S. flag. The partnership brings together the complementary capabilities of the two companies to offer customers a new option for moving large and heavy cargoes worldwide. ...

South Korea's, Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world's largest shipbuilder, has won a $400 million order to build two 155,000 cu.m LNG carriers for Singapore-based BW Maritime.Mr. Kim Oi-hyun, senior executive vice president and CEO of Hyundai Heavy and Mr. Clarence Lui, BW Maritime CFO & executive vice president, signed the contract,  which also inclu ...

STX OSV Holdings Limited  has secured new contracts for the design and construction of three advanced stern trawlers for Aker Seafoods ASA. The total contract value is approximately NOK 750 million (about $135 million).  The diesel electric twin screw trawler vessels will be of STX OSV's own FV 01 design, and will be approximately 70 mete ...

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today named current Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) Director Michael R. Bromwich to lead the newly formed Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and current BOEMRE Senior Advisor Tommy P. Beaudreau to lead the newly formed Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).Bromwich an ...

The Long Island  -  New York City Offshore Wind Collaborative yesterday filed an offshore wind farm lease application with BOEMRE.The collaborative, which consists of Consolidated Edison Company of New York (Con Edison), the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), and the New York Power Authority (NYPA), ...

Croatia's Uljanik Shipyard has delivered a fourth self-propelled cutter suction dredge, the Niccolò Machiavelli, to Jan De Nul S.A. G. D. Luxembourg, a member of the Jan De Nul Group.Niccolò Machiavelli has a dredging depth of 36.6 m depth and is capable of dredging (cutting and simultaneous suction) compacted sand, stiff clay, stones and similar sedi ...