floating fire house

San Francisco gets world’s first floating fire station

Seemingly overnight, a new structure appeared on San Francisco’s waterfront back in December. Situated at Pier 22½ just behind the historic Firehouse 35 and nestled beside the Bay Bridge, this floating building

Nigel Cabral

PODCAST: Small-scale ferry operations and the bigger picture

In this edition of Listen Up!, we talk to Nigel Cabral, who is the CEO of Tideline Marine Group, a ferry services and maritime consulting firm based in Tiburon, Calif., that focuses

Dredging leaders engage with USACE general

USACE and dredging industry sign MOU to improve safety culture

The Council for Dredging and Marine Construction Safety (CDMCS) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) have inked a strengthened partnership on safety and discussed ways, through shared understanding and commitment,

Attendees at dump scow barge steel cutting

Conrad cuts steel for GLDD dump scow barges

Conrad Shipyard recently hosted a steel cutting ceremony for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company LLC (GLDD) at its shipyard in Morgan City, La. The steel is for three 7,100-cubic-yard dump scow

Offshore wind safety training instructor with student

Crowley inks MOU on offshore wind safety training

Crowley has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with RelyOn Nutec to enhance the availability of offshore wind safety training across the U.S. The strategic partnering pairs leading Jones Act maritime solutions

DOJ Antitrust Division intervenes in Zen-Noh grain elevator acquisition

Zen-Noh Grain’s planned acquisition of Bunge Mississippi River grain elevators has hit a bump in the road. The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that it will require Zen-Noh Grain Corp. (ZGC)

USACE St. Paul District to close 4 locks and dams

Memphis Engineer District awards $5.2 million dredging contract

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Memphis District has awarded Great Lakes Dredge and Dock LLC, a harbor dredging contract in the amount of $5,238,035. Contracted work includes dredging six harbors. Memphis

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NOAA begins sunsetting process for raster and paper charts

When the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that it would be phasing out traditional paper nautical charts this year, coastal tug and passenger vessel crews were ready for the most

New fire boat

New fireboat is first Moose on Great Lakes

Vallejo, Calif., based Moose Boats has delivered a new M2-38 fireboat to the Rochester (N.Y.) Fire Department. Rochester is on the southern shore of Lake Ontario and its new fireboat, Marine 1,

Boat approaching floating wind turbine

OCTOPUS and robotics could boost wind farm vessel uptime by 35%

With ABB Ability’s marine advisory system OCTOPUS and robotic maintenance working together, wind farm vessels’ working hours could increase by over a third. A study from ABB focusing on the ATLANTIS offshore

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