Susan W. Dio

Susan W. Dio joins Kirby board

Houston-headquartered Kirby Corporation (NYSE: KEX), the largest tank barge operator in the U.S., has appointed Susan W. Dio to its board, effective January 24, 2023, expanding it to ten directors, nine of

grounded tug boat

USCG responds to tugboat grounding

The Coast Guard is responding to a tugboat that ran aground near the South Texas Gateway refinery in Corpus Christi. Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi command center watchstanders received a call at

Chesapeake Class pilot launch

Maryland Pilots back at Gladding-Hearn for a fifth launch

The Association of Maryland Pilots has ordered a Chesapeake Class launch from Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation, Somerset, Mass. Delivery is scheduled for early 2024. With a deep-V hull designed by Ray Hunt

SF bay pilots will operate CARB compliant new boats

Glosten to design first pilot boats meeting tough new CARB requirements

The San Francisco Bar Pilots have engaged naval architecture and marine engineering firm Glosten to design new station boats that will meet the new California Air Resources Board (CARB) harbor craft emission

Corpus Christi Ship Channel Project receives $157.3M in final phase funding

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, approved by Congress in December 2022, includes project closeout funding of $157.3 million for the Port of Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement Project (CIP) for the

Sanmar built tug

Four deliveries in final week round off a good year at Sanmar Shipyards

Turkish tugboat specialist Sanmar Shipyards delivered four tugs during the final week of 2022, rounding off an extremely successful year that saw the company deliver a total of 30 tugs to operators

GLDD (Great Lakes Dredge) CEO Lasse Petterson

Dredging giant gives a profit warning

In an update on its fourth quarter 2022 operations, America’s largest dredging contractor, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ: GLDD), says that revenues and gross profit margins for the quarter are

Top Women in Maritime 2022

Marine Log’s Top Women in Maritime in 2022: The full interview

As the maritime industry continues to increase diversity and bring more women into its ranks, we wrap up 2022 for the third year in a row by bringing to you our list

beach fill project

Philadelphia Engineer District awards Weeks, GLDD beach fill contracts

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Philadelphia District has awarded a $23.8 million contract to Weeks Marine of Cranford, N.J. for to conduct periodic nourishment on three dune and beach fill projects

hybrid research vessel

Construction of plug-in hybrid research vessel underway at Snow & Company

Snow & Company, Inc. of Seattle, Wash., has recently started construction of the R/V Resilience, a 50-foot plug-in hybrid research vessel being built for the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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