With Project Resolve ship accepted, Davie pins hopes on icebreakers

JANUARY 30, 2018 — After intensive at-sea trials and testing, Canada’s Department of Defence has formally accepted Asterix, the Resolve-Class Naval Support Ship created by Davie Shipbuilding by converting an existing containership.

Foss brings in 498 utility trucks to aid Puerto Rico power restoration

JANUARY 29, 2017 — Foss Maritime arrived this week at the Port of Ponce in Puerto Rico with seven barges loaded with 498 electric company utility trucks as part of the on-going

Baydelta to build Jensen designed hybrid tug at Nichols Brothers

JANUARY 29, 2018 — Jensen Maritime, Crowley Maritime Corp.’s Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering firm, is providing the design for a new 100-foot, Z-Drive hybrid tugboat to be built by Nichols

Legacy Marine delivers 18 m dive support catamaran

JANUARY 29, 2018 — South Africa’s Legacy Marine Group reports that Stapem Beluga, the first of two Incat Crowther designed 18 m aluminum dive support catamarans, has been delivered safely to Angola.

Plans for LPG fueled COGES ferry make progress

JANUARY 29, 2018 — South Korea’s plans to pioneer LPG as a marine fuel with a GE COmbined Gas turbine Electric and Steam System (COGES) powered car/passenger ferry are picking up pace.

Bio-based antifoulant proves effectiveness in two year trial

JANUARY 29, 2018 — Gothenburg, Sweden, based bio-tech company I-Tech says that a twenty-four-month trial on a 46,067 dwt chemical and products carrier has confirmed the hard fouling prevention power of an

Philly Shipyard puts TOTE containership project on hold

JANUARY 28, 2018 — TOTE Inc. says that, as a result of its Phase 1 technical review of Piers 1 and 2 in Honolulu Harbor, its plans to enter the Hawaii to

Ingalls Shipbuilding awarded $30.1 million more for Fitzgerald repairs

JANUARY 28, 2018 — Huntington Ingalls Inc. – Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, is being awarded a $30,169,626 modification to a previously awarded contract for the execution of USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) emergent

Arctic shipping: China unveils plans for new Polar Silk Road

JANUARY 26, 2018 — China plans to develop new Arctic shipping routes as part of a “Polar Silk Road.” Unveiled in a white paper on Arctic policy published today by the State

MOL orders its first LNG fueled tugboat

JANUARY 26, 2018 — Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. reports that it has signed a deal for the construction of an LNG fueled tugboat with shipbuilder Kanagawa Dockyard Co., Ltd. Construction is slated

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