SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 — Bollinger Marine Fabricators, L.L.C., Amelia, La., a Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. company, has delivered the Ocean Wave, the first of four Ocean class tugs, to Crowley Maritime Corporation. The
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 — Eleven years after 9/11, a GAO report finds that the U.S. has made “substantial progress” in improving maritime security. GAO says that, 10 years after passage of the
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 — The Coast Guard is requiring all commercial fishing vessels that operate or fish more than three miles from the territorial sea baseline to complete a mandatory Coast Guard
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 — Four low emission dry cargo vessels have been given energy efficiency design index (EEDI) certificates by Germanischer Lloyd (GL). Built for U.K.-based Carisbrooke Shipping by Chinese shipyard Jiangsu
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 — John Fredriksen’s Knightsbridge Tankers Limited (Nasdaq:VLCCF) has sold two VLCCs, the Hampstead and the Titan Venus, though the Hampstead transaction didn’t go quite as planned. The Hampstead sale
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 — General Dynamics NASSCO has completed the structural assembly and weld-out of 26,241 metric tons of steel to erect the entire structure of the first Mobile Landing Platform (MLP)
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 — Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. has announced the upcoming retirement of its Vice President Central Division, Larry Vauclin. “Larry has been a critical part of the growth of Bollinger over
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 — Crowley Maritime Corp. company Jensen Maritime has recently completed a major redesign of the Global Sea-managed fishing vessel Bering Defender. The project, which improved the vessel’s efficiency and
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 — Venezuela has dropped charges against the U.S.-flag heavy lift ship Ocean Atlas, detained in Maracaibo since August 29 in connection with three rifles carried on board for security
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 — China’s COSCO Qidong Offshore, a subsidiary of COSCO Shipyard Group has secured a contract worth over $200 million from Axis Offshore, a joint venture between Danish shipowner J.