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Seattle based naval architectural and engineering consultancy Glosten Associates, Inc. has announced plans to commercialize its PelaStar floating wind turbine platform, and make the technology available to the offshore wind energy industry within the year. Glosten says the PelaStar platform provides a scalable, integrated blade tip–to–seabed solution that minimizes t ...

Donjon Marine, Co., Inc. reports that Paul Deterding has been named General Manager of Donjon Shipbuilding and Repair, LLC, located in Erie, Pa.  Mr. Deterding will oversee the daily operations of the facility, including production, engineering, plant maintenance and administrative duties.Mr. Deterding has more than 25 years of experience in the marine, electrical ...

American Cruise Lines reports that its newbuild sternwheeler, the Queen of the Mississippi, was launched at Chesapeake Shipbuilding in Maryland on Sunday, July 17 - nine weeks ahead of schedule.  Immediately after the launching, tugboats skillfully nudged the new riverboat into Chesapeake Shipbuilding's Outfitting Basin Number 2 where the upper decks a ...

At its meeting in London last week, IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) adopted mandatory measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from ships. The measures were adopted by a majority, rather than by a consensus. The MEPC adopted amendments to MARPOL Annex VI Regulations for the prevention of air pollution from ships that included adding a n ...

Rolls-Royce has been awarded a contract worth about $80 million by Swire Pacific Offshore to supply advanced anchor handling systems for four offshore vessels, currently under construction in Singapore.The systems are developed for the safer handl ...

Norway's Farstad Shipping ASA has reached an agreement with Brazil's Petroserv S.A. that will see it buy Petroserv's 50 percent share in BOS Navegação S.A. for $56.5 million.The deal will give Farstad Shipping e 100 percent ownership of BOS (Brazil Offshore Services), which was established in June 1999 as a joint venture between Farstad and Petroserv. Today t ...

Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to supply the main engines for a series of 25 tankers being built for Volga Shipping Co., Russia's oldest shipping company. Fifteen of the ships are to be constructed at the Okskaya shipyard in Navashino for shipowner Volga Flot Tanker, and the other ten at the Krasnoe Sormovo shipyard in Nizhny Novgorod, five for Bash Volga Tanker ...

EU Navfor says that late on the morning of July 16, the owners of the MV JUBBA XX reported that the laden tanker had been pirated in the northern Indian Ocean, on itsr regular route from the United Arab Emirates to the port of Berbera, SomaliaThe vessel was located by a Maritime Patrol aircraft  on the morning of July 17, t 100 nautical miles n ...

The first two of a new class of vessels designed by Seattle-based Elliott Bay Design Group LLC (EBDG) and built for the Port Aransas Ferry Service by Southwest Shipyard LP went into operation July 1. EBDG was selected by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), Corpus Christi District, to prepare the design for this new 160-ft double-ended ferry serving ...

Rand Logistics, Inc. (Nasdaq:RLOG)) today announced that it has signed a binding asset purchase agreement, that will see its subsidiary, Lower Lakes Towing Ltd. acquire the Maritime Trader, a Canadian flagged dry bulk carrier, subject only to final approval by the Federal Court of Canada. According to ...