Ritz-Carlton picks ABB solutions for first ultra luxury cruise ship

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 — As we reported in June (see earlier story) the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C., part of Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR) is getting into the high end boutique yacht

MARAD awards $9.8 million in Small Shipyard Grants

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 — The U.S. Department of Transportation reports that the Maritime Administration (MARAD) has awarded $9.8 million to 18 small U.S. shipyards through its Small Shipyard Grant Program. These investments

Gulf Island awards Gibbs & Cox research vessel design contract

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 — Arlington, VA, headquartered naval architecture and marine engineering firm Gibbs & Cox, Inc. has been awarded a contract by Gulf Island Shipyards, LLC, to perform the functional engineering

Meyer Turku to double investment in production capabilities

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 — Finland’s Meyer Turku shipyard is more than doubling its infrastructure investments from a previously published EUR 75 million euros to EUR 185 million ($221 million). The new investments

Eastern cuts steel for first of three Staten Island ferries

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 — Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc., Panama City, FL, recently hosted a steel cutting ceremony with the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) Staten Island Ferry Division The ceremony

Gothenburg to get LNG bunkering facility

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 — MAN Cryo, MAN Diesel & Turbo’s marine LNG fuel gas system manufacturing company, is to deliver an LNG bunkering facility for the Port of Gothenburg, under a contract

Denmark takes a step towards digitalizing tele-medicine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 — The Danish Maritime Authority is aiming to digitalize as many work processes as possible so as to ease the burdens imposed on both seafarers and the industry. Its

VIDEO: LCS 9 successfully completes acceptance trials

AUGUST 31, 2017 — Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Fincantieri Marinette Marine successfully completed acceptance trials on the future USS Little Rock (LCS 9), on Aug. 25. The future USS Little Rock,

Blank Rome issues guidance on Hurricane Harvey insurance recovery

AUGUST 31, 2019 — Businesses and communities throughout Texas and the Gulf Coast are now dealing with the catastrophic effects of Hurricane Harvey. Law firm Blank Rome has produced a timely guidance

USCG continues post-Harvey port assessments

AUGUST 31, 2017 — Crewmembers aboard Coast Guard Cutter Harry Claiborne, a 175-foot coastal buoy tender homeported in Galveston, Texas, continued to inspect and reposition buoys beset by Hurricane Harvey, Thursday. The

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