Blue Highway transloadijng vpoint

New Bronx Blue Highway project unveiled

Set to start operating this year, a Blue Highway project in the Bronx, N.Y., will initially remove 1,000 truck trips a month off highways and onto the water. Details of the plan

Ocean Navigator passenger vessel

NTSB: Engine failure leads to $2.4 million passenger vessel fire

Debris in an engine’s lube oil system led to a diesel engine failure and an engine room fire aboard a passenger vessel docked in Portland, Maine, the National Transportation Safety Board said

İÇDAŞ tug

Damen partners with ICDAS to build tug in Turkey

Damen Shipyards Group has signed a contract with Turkey’s ICDAS Group covering the construction of an ASD Tug 2813 in Turkey. Back in 2002, Damen Shipyards in Galati, Romania, built two tugs

BW LPG vessel using Oceanly solutions

BW LPG rolls out Oceanly digital solutions fleetwide

Looking to use advanced vessel reporting and performance monitoring to improve fleet performance, the world’s largest LPG carrier operator, BW LPG, is implementing digital solutions from Rapallo, Italy-headquartered Oceanly fleetwide. Oceanly says

Section 301 announcement

USTR reveals fee scales, timing for Section 301 action on China

In a long-expected move, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) on April 17 took Section 301 “targeted action to restore American shipbuilding and address China’s unreasonable acts, policies, and practices to dominate the

Ulusoy ship

Wärtsilä will upgrade engines on two Ulusoy Sealines bulkers

Wärtsilä is to upgrade the Wärtsilä RT-flex main engines on two bulk carriers owned by Turkey-based Ulusoy Sealines. The planned engine retrofits and upgrades aim to extend the vessels’ operational life and

Gov. Hochul fights Trump offshore wind energy pause

Hochul to fight Burgum shut down of Empire Wind “every step of the way”

In an announcement on a social media post, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said yesterday that he had ordered BOEM to immediately halt all construction activities on the Empire Wind Project

Aker Arctic icebreaker

Aker Arctic to design next-generation icebreaker for Finland

The Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency (FTIA) has chosen Helsinki-headquartered Aker Arctic to design the next-generation Baltic Sea assistance icebreaker as part of the Winter Navigation Motorways of the Sea III (WINMOS III)

Saronic Maurader

Gulf Craft acquired by autonomous vessel innovator Saronic

Austin, Texas, based autonomous vessel start up Saronic has acquired Franklin, La.-based shipbuilder Gulf Craft. It says that, with the acquisition, it gains a strategically located shipyard on the Gulf Coast that

minimum wage meeting

Agreement reached on new global minimum wage for seafarers

The International Labor Organization (ILO) has concluded the latest round of minimum wage negotiations for able seafarers at a meeting of the Subcommittee on Wages of Seafarers of ILO’s Joint Maritime Commission

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