VIDEO: Massive offshore crane collapses during load tests

Video has surfaced on YouTube showing the collapse of a massive Liebherr offshore crane during load testing on the DEME offshore installation vessel Orion 1. Built in China, the vessel is designed

Carnival Corporation

Carnival plans limited resumption of North American cruises

Carnival Cruise Line says it has advised guests and travel agents that it plans to phase in a resumption in its North American service this summer, beginning on August 1 with a

Metal Shark Alabama delivers inland towboat to FMT

Metal Shark’s Bayou La Batre, Ala., shipyard has delivered its first newbuild, a 120- by 35-foot river towboat for Florida Marine Transporters Inc. (FMT) of Mandeville, La. Designed by John W. Gilbert

Commissioner Sola led cruise fact vfinding

COVID-19: FMC to investigate how cruise industry can resume operations

Federal Maritime Commissioner Louis E. Sola will lead a fact finding investigation and work with key industry stakeholders to identify commercial measures passenger cruise lines can adopt to mitigate COVID-19 related impacts

Guilty plea in Navy ship husbanding bribery case

The owner and Chief Executive Officer of a Republic of Korea–based company, DK Marine, that provided ship husbanding services to the U.S. Navy pleaded guilty Friday for his role in a bribery

Austal Australia books major patrol boat order

While Austal USA is eyeing its options after missing out on the U.S. Navy’s FFG(X) project, Austal Australia has been awarded an A$324 million (about US$208 million) contract to design and construct

ASD-90 tug joins Foss Maritime fleet in Long Beach

The Jamie Ann, the first of four new ASD-90 tugs constructed by Nichols Brothers Boat Builders for the Saltchuk group of companies, arrived Saturday in her new homeport of Long Beach, Calif.

USCG names its first female judge advocate general and chief counsel

Rear Adm. Melissa Bert has been invested as judge advocate general and chief counsel of the U.S. Coast Guard. She is the service’s first woman to hold that office. Bert was most

Austal seeks to identify new opportunities for Alabama shipyard

The Navy’s decision to award the FFG (X) guided missile frigate contract to Fincantieri Marinette Marine leaves three other shipyards feeling disappointed, including Austal USA, in Mobile, Ala. In a filing with

ACBL completes recapitalization

American Commercial Barge Line Holding Corp., as successor to American Commercial Lines Inc., today announced that it has successfully completed its recapitalization and emerged from Chapter 11. ACBL says it is moving

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