Current Senior Executive Vice President Hiroaki Sakashita has been appointed as President & CEO, as well as a Representative Director, of classification society ClassNK, effective today. He succeeds Koichi Fujiwara, who has
The U.S. Navy is preparing to deploy its two hospital ships — USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy —in response to the coronavirus outbreak. However, in a press briefing at the Pentagon yesterday,
The future USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) successfully completed acceptance trials on March 12, returning to Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Ingalls Shipbuilding Division after spending two days at sea in the
German propulsion manufacturer Schottel has been awarded a contract to provide azimuth thrusters for a Chinese river cruise vessel. Owned by Changjiang Cruise Overseas Travel and built by the China Merchants Heavy
Driven by significant customer demand along the Intracoastal Waterway, Atlas Marine Services is expanding its 24/7 dockside fueling services to Port Arthur, Texas, and has appointed George McAfee as General Manager of
Damen Marine Components (DMC) has won an order for three sets of steering and rudder systems for the three dual-fueled trailing suction hopper dredges (TSHDs) currently being built at Keppel Offshore &
The San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) has announced that its San Francisco Bay Ferry service will be temporarily reduced in response to regional efforts to reduce the spread
The Steiner Construction shipyard in Bayou La Batre, Ala. recently delivered the M/V Darrell Hiatt, the first in a series of seven subchapter M compliant towboats that it is building for Metairie,
The impact of the coronavirus outbreak on cruising is not confined to a 30-day halt in CLIA members’ ocean cruises from U.S. ports. American Queen Steamboat Company (AQSC) has announced that it
Coronavirus-related travel restrictions in Europe have had a devastating effect on ferry operations. On Friday, Gothenburg, Sweden, headquartered Stena Line said that, with Danish and Polish closing their borders, it would suspend