Great Lakes Maritime Prosperity ZOnes

Eight-ship Navy shipbuilding request faces Congressional push back

The Navy’s FY 2021 budget request includes $4.0 billion for the first Columbia class ballistic missile submarine. That $4.0 billion, says the Navy, “will provide the first of three years of incremental

Carnival: coronavirus will have “material impact” on earnings

Carnival Corporation & plc said today that it “is closely monitoring the evolving situation with respect to coronavirus” and that its “medical experts are coordinating closely with the U.S. Centers for Disease

Titan Acquisition Holdings to acquire HII’s San Diego Shipyard

Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) announced today that its Technical Solutions business has entered into an agreement to contribute its San Diego Shipyard to Titan Acquisition Holdings, a company comprised of Vigor

NTSB reports on how heavy lift ship slammed barge into newbuild destroyer

The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a Marine Accident Brief on the March 29, 2019 incident in which the heavy lift vessel MV Hawk slammed into an electrical test barge at

MAN launches open digital data initiative

MAN Energy Solutions has launched a new digital platform to provides asset owners with a single, secure interface to data from multiple equipment manufacturers. Called mýa, the platform enables the exchange of

FY 21 budget cuts would put vital waterways projects on hold

Waterways Council, Inc. (WCI) reacted to the President’s Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21) budget request released yesterday, calling it “astonishingly inadequate.” The FY21 budget provides $0 for construction of ongoing priority navigation projects

Wärtsilä gains DNV GL type approval for SceneScan position reference system

DNV GL has granted type approval to Wärtsilä’s SceneScan, the world’s first laser-based target-less relative dynamic positioning (DP) reference system. Marking what Wärtsilä calls “a paradigm shift” from conventional DP reference systems,

Former Austal USA execs face multiple charges

Schulte to pay $1.75 million in Hawaii pollution case

Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (Singapore) Pte Ltd. yesterday pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of maintaining false and incomplete records relating to the discharge of bilge waste from the tank vessel

A.W. McAfee named managing director of Resolve Alaska

Resolve Marine Group has named A.W. McAfee as the new managing director of its northwest operating arm, Resolve Alaska, based in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. McAfee comes to Resolve from the Bechtel Corporation

Shane Guidry to remain Harvey Gulf CEO until 2027

New Orleans, La., headquartered Harvey Gulf International Marine reports that it has signed an agreement with its CEO, Shane Guidry, to remain at Harvey until January 1, 2027. In connection with the

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