Underscoring the advantages of building in series, Vane Brothers has taken delivery of the 3,000 hp Cape Fear, the seventeenth Maryland-built tugboat to join the Baltimore-based company’s expanding fleet. Since 2008, fifteen
Ship operators are being warned to expect higher crewing costs next year as pandemic measures and challenges in carrying out crew changes push prices higher. Henrik Jensen, managing director of Hamburg, Germany,
The Unified Command (the Coast Guard, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, and Gallagher Marine Systems) working on the salvage of the capsized car carrier Golden Ray reports that the process of cutting
A new GAO (Government Accountability Office) report into the U.S. Coast Guard’s Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) program is critical of several aspects of the acquisition strategy and makes eight recommendations that, it
Kongsberg Maritime reports that thus far this year it has won contracts for 12 of its highly advanced shuttle tanker concepts, with a value totaling over NOK 400 million (about $44 million).
Stocks of cruise lines took a minor hit today, in apparent reaction to reports that a passenger on board SeaDream Yacht Club’s SeaDream 1 had tested positive for COVID-19. The boutique cruise
Japan’s Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (KEPCO) and e5 Lab Inc. have formed a business partnership to develop and promote the use of pure electric vessels in the Kansai Bay area. Called
With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing, ABS is addressing the issue of how the physical arrangement of a marine or offshore asset can act to mitigate transmission of infectious diseases? It has published
Wageningen, Netherlands, based HullVane BV is adding a new solution to its line-up — the Foil Assist. It comes after several years in which HullVane has been researching and testing the effect
The bow doors of Tycho Brahe — one of the two battery-powered RO/RO ferries operated on the 20-minute Helsingør, Denmark-Helsingborg, Sweden route by ForSeas Ferries —are to be retrofitted with grease-free ThorPlas-Blue