TTB: NTSB looks at the lessons that accidents teach

Accidents involving tugs, towboats, and barges can be deadly and are usually expensive. To discuss the lessons to be learned, Day 2 of Marine Log’s TTB – Tugs, Towboats & Barges free

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Weeks wins $24 million Mobile Harbor dredging award

Weeks Marine Inc., Covington, La., has been awarded a $24,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract to furnish all the equipment, materials, supplies, and manpower necessary to perform dredging of the Mobile Harbor Navigation Project. Bids

New report on positioning U.S. offshore wind for expansion

ABS has published a report evaluating the U.S. offshore wind industry’s readiness to deliver the 40 gigawatts of capacity that the International Energy Agency estimates will be installed by 2040. The report

Progress at Canadian ports

This article was written by Marybeth Luczak, executive editor, Railway Age Magazine, an affiliate publication to Marine Log. The Montreal Port Authority’s (MPA) Contrecoeur Port Terminal Expansion Project gets the greenlight; Port of

New Los Angeles pilot boats feature Furuno helm suites

The two new 56-foot pilot boats recently delivered to the Los Angeles Pilot Service are equipped with full suites of Furuno marine electronics. Built by Vigor’s Vancouver, Wash., shipyard, the Camarc-designed Angels

DARPA picks L3 Harris for autonomous ship project

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) reports that it been selected to design an autonomous surface ship concept for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in phase one of the two phase No

New twin-screw towboat joins Parker Towing fleet

Parker Towing Company, Tuscaloosa, Ala., has recently taken delivery of the twin-screw towboat Jared Phillips from FMT Shipyard & Repair LLC, Harvey, La. Measuring 128 feet in length and 34 feet in

Crowley names Dan Warner CFO

Crowley Maritime Corporation reports that it has promoted senior executive team member Dan Warner to Chief Financial Officer, consolidating the company’s enterprise-level financial strategy, resources and services under his leadership. In his

Multiple dredges at work on Mississippi River channel deepening

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is making good progress continues working on the historic project to deepen the Mississippi River Ship Channel (MRSC) to 50 feet. The project kicked off

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Diversified Marine’s Frank Manning to present on tug trends at TTB

Frank Manning, executive director of business development and operations at Diversified Marine Inc. (DMI), Portland, Ore., will present at this year’s free virtual presentation of Marine Log’s TTB –Tugs, Towboats & Barges

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