OCTOBER 23, 2013 — U.S.-based maritime security firm AdvanFort is stepping up efforts to free the 35 crew and guards aboard the Seaman Guard Ohio who have been detained in an Indian
OCTOBER 23, 2013 — Blackstone-controlled American Petroleum Tankers Partners LP has filed with the SEC to raise up to $173 million in an initial public offering. It plans to list on the
OCTOBER 23, 2013 — Jotun Hull Performance Solutions (HPS) has launched the HPS Newbuilding Solution at the Kormarine event in South Korea. The aim is to help shipbuilders delivering eco-design vessels to
OCTOBER 22, 2013 — No surprise here: The Congressional Budget Office estimate of the cost of new-ship construction in the Navy’s 2014 shipbuilding plan is higher than the Navy’s. The CBO’s number
OCTOBER 22, 2013 — Hong Kong headquartered bulker operator Pacific Basin is looking at the possibility of selling its towage operations. PB Towage harbor tug These include harbor towage in Australia through
OCTOBER 22, 2013 — Five Japanese companies are to take a 30 percent stake in Brazilian shipbuilder ECOVIX — Engevix Construções Oceânicas S.A. They are shipbuilders Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), Imabari
OCTOBER 22, 2013 — Leevac Shipyards, LLC recently delivered the first of two 60-t bollard pull Z-Tech 2400 harbor tug boats, the Chloe K, to Bay-Houston Towing Co. Leevac has shipyards in
OCTOBER 21, 2013 — Cecon ASA reports that the first of the three construction vessels building for it at Chantier Davie Canada Inc., Lévis, Quebec, was successfully floated out, as scheduled, on
OCTOBER 21, 2013 — Carnival Corporation’s Seabourn Cruises has signed a Letter of Intent for the construction of a new ultra-luxury cruise ship with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri. Seabourn Odyssey The new ship
OCTOBER 21, 2013 — Bakker-Sliedrecht, Sliedrecht, The Netherlands, has won a contact to provide the drive systems for seven double ended catamaran ferries being built by the State of Rio Janeiro, Brazil.