Houston-headquartered marine engineering and naval architecture consulting firm Zentech, Inc. has acquired the former Derrick Barge 23 from Bohen Crane and Equipment Repair LLC and renamed it ZEE RIG 3. “We intend
The National Shipbuilding Research Program Executive Control Board has selected 15 new research and development projects to receive awards totaling approximately $1.4 million. A brief description of each newly awarded project follows:
Rolls-Royce has received orders worth around GBP 18 million (about $28.5 million) for the supply of azimuth thrusters to power 18 new tugs being built in Chinese shipyards. Qingdao and Yingkou Ports
Singapore-headquartered Thome Ship Management reports that Carsten Brix Ostenfeldt has been appointed Managing Director with immediate effect. He replaces Bjorn Hojgaard who has resigned from the group to pursue other interests. Mr.
Anacortes, Wash., shipbuilder Dakota Creek Industries, Inc., is being awarded a $74,141,319 fixed-price modification to a previously awarded Navy contract (N00024-10-C-2201) for the detail design and construction of the ocean class Auxiliary
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) last week issued the initial group of violations resulting from the findings of the Joint Investigation on the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill.
A balance has to be struck between the commercial advantages of shipowners’ selecting a particular flag state and the need to discourage the use of flags that do not meet their international
Trinity Offshore, LLC and Signet Maritime Corporation recently christened the escort tugs M/V SIGNET STARS & STRIPES and M/V SIGNET CONSTELLATION in a double ceremony at Trinity’s Gulfport, Miss. shipyard. Mrs. Gayle
After little more than a year in the job, Rear Admiral Philip H. Greene, Jr. is leaving his position as Superintendent, United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, N.Y. Secretary of Transportation
Two officers of the Costamare-owned 3,032 containership Rena face charges laid by Maritime New Zealand (MNZ). The 236 m ship struck the Astrolabe Reef, near Tauranga Harbor, around 2.20 am, October 5,
