Lyman Morse landing craft

Lyman Morse Fabrication landing craft find a new market niche

While Thomaston, Me., headquartered Lyman-Morse is mainly known for its award-winning semi-custom sailing yachts and powerboats, its Lyman-Morse Fabrication (LMF) division has wide-ranging capabilities with its offerings including the LMF landing craft

Gladding-Hearn pilot launch

Lake Charles Pilots order fourth launch from Gladding-Hearn

Louisiana’s Lake Charles pilots, who already have three Gladding-Hearn pilot boats in their fleet, have ordered another launch from the Somerset, Mass., shipyard. Based on the Cameron Pilot II delivered by Gladding-Hearn

SEACOR CEO comments on harbor towing biz sale

SEACOR Holdings sells U.S. harbor towing business

SEACOR Holdings Inc. says its Seabulk Towing Holdings Inc. subsidiary is to sell its U.S. harbor towing operations and assets. They are being bought by two fifth-generation family-owned companies: New Orleans headquartered

ASD tug grounding caused damage to vessecl

Excessive speed seen in expensive ASD tug grounding

Excessive speed during a bow-to-bow harbor-assist maneuver led to the grounding of the ASD tugboat CC Portland in the Corpus Christi Ship Channel last year, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.

Mattias Hellstrom

Mattias Hellstrom named Svitzer global CCO

Maersk group towage operator Svitzer has named Mattias Hellstrom as its new global chief commercial officer (CCO), effective October 1, succeeding Videlina Georgieva, who was recently appointed managing director of Svitzer Australia.

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock gets dredging awards

New awards take GLDD dredging backlog to $1.1 billion

America’s largest provider of dredging services, Houston-headquartered Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ: GLDD), reports that it has booked recent awards totaling $177 million, taking its dredging backlog to approximately $1.1

deadly duck boat DUKW is raised from water

USCG issues interim rule on duck boat safety

The Coast Guard has issued an interim rule as the first step toward implementing statutorily mandated requirements for duck boats — DUKW amphibious passenger vessels. This statutory mandate was enacted after the

Elsbeth Smith

Remembering maritime pioneer Elsbeth Smith

America’s first female tugboat captain, Elsbeth Smith, born in Daytona Beach in 1941, peacefully passed away surrounded by her five children in St. Augustine, Florida on August 15, 2023, at the age

NTSB reports on City of Boston

NTSB says failure to maintain crane barge led to $6.3 million loss

In its latest report involving a crane barge accident, the NTSB says that an owner’s lack of inspection and maintenance led to the capsizing and sinking of a crane barge last year

Rendering of completed Rio Grande LNG terminal

Four tugs ordered for Rio Grande LNG

NextDecade Corporation’s Rio Grande LNG project in Brownsville, Texas, is moving right along. Already the tugs that will serve the export terminal are being lined up. Today, Gulf LNG Tugs of Brownsville,

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