SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 — Espoo, Finland, headquartered Valmet Corporation will supply an automation system for the LNG-powered fast ferry ordered by Estonia’s AS Tallink Grupp at shipbuilder Meyer Turku Oy for its
SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 — The United States Coast Guard Icebreaker Mackinaw (WLBB-30) recently completed repairs at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay, WI, to prepare for winter operations on the Great Lakes. Winter
SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 — Gulf Island Marine Fabricators, Houma, LA, last moth delivered the 180′ x 48′ x 11′ 6” towboat Rick Calhoun to Paducah, KY, headquartered tug and towboat operator Marquette
SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 — Inmarsat is participating in the Advanced Autonomous Waterborne Applications Initiative (AAWA) recently launched by Rolls-Royce (see earlier story). The project, funded by Tekes (Finnish Funding Agency for Technology
SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 — Bristol, RI, based naval architecture and marine engineering firm Bristol Harbor Group, Inc. (BHGI) reports that the Vane Brothers Company, Baltimore, MD, has taken delivery of a BHGI
SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 — Though marine exhaust gas scrubbers do the job, shipowners and shipyards would be lot happier if they were smaller, lighter and cost less. A pilot project developed by
SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 — The Navy’s Military Sealift Command has exercised one year time charter options worth a total $24.5 million with Sealift Inc., Oyster Bay, NY, for two U.S. flagged, self-sustaining
SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 — The Coast Guard reported Saturday that traffic was again transiting the Mississippi River as the unified command in Paducah continued to respond to the clarified slurry oil spill
SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 — Ålesund, Norway, headquartered Skipsteknisk has won a contract from Granit Halstensen AS to design what will be Norway’s largest factory trawler. To be built by Turkey’s Tersan Shipyard,
SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 —As of 10:50 a.m. today, 23 vessels were awaiting transit down river and 10 were awaiting transit up as the Mississippi River remained closed to all traffic except response