Port NOLA CEO receives 2020 Bertel Award
Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) President and CEO and CEO of the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad (NOPB) Brandy Christian has received the 2020 C. Alvin Bertel Award at a ceremony
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Q-LNG ATB completes sea trials
Quality Liquefied Natural Gas Transport (Q-LNG) reports that its LNG bunkering ATB built at Halter Marine has now successfully completed sea trials and is headed Elba Island, Ga., to load gas and
Callan Marine names new CFO
Dredging contractor Callan Marine, Galveston, Texas, has hired Matt Sitka, CPA, MBA as its new Chief Financial Officer. A 15-year veteran of the industrial services, dredging, and marine construction industry, Sitka brings
Illinois seeks public comment on Marine Transportation System Plan
The Illinois Department of Transportation is inviting the public to comment on its new Illinois Marine Transportation System Plan and economic impact analysis study. The feedback will help shape strategies to strengthen
Kakaskia Regional Port District features on “World’s Greatest”
The Kaskaskia Regional Port District in Red Bull, Ill., was recently featured in an episode of the “World’s Greatest” TV show. Now in its fourteenth season and aired on the ION Network.
Another 3,000-hp Maryland-built tugboat joins Vane Brothers fleet
Underscoring the advantages of building in series, Vane Brothers has taken delivery of the 3,000 hp Cape Fear, the seventeenth Maryland-built tugboat to join the Baltimore-based company’s expanding fleet. Since 2008, fifteen
Singapore operator takes delivery of RAmparts 3200 ASD duo
PSA Marine, Singapore, has taken delivery of two more Robert Allan Ltd. designed RAmparts 3200 ASD tugs from China’s PaxOcean Engineering Zhuhai Co. Ltd. The tugs, PSA Marvel and PSA Valkyrie, are
MTU engines power 63-ton bollard pull Emden tug
Now in operation in Emden, Germany, the 28-meter harbor assist and salvage tug Peter Wessels has a bollard pull of 63 tons, making it the most powerful tug in the five-tug fleet
C&C Marine and Repair delivers first of three towboats for Hines Furlong Line
Belle Chasse, La., based C&C Marine and Repair recently delivered the triple-screw 6,600-horsepower towboat M/V Scarlett Rose Furlong to Nashville, Tenn., based Hines Furlong Line Inc. Measuring 170 feet by 50 feet
MacGregor to supply Fincantieri Bay LNG bunkering barge hose handling cranes
The 5,400-cubic-meter LNG bunkering barge under construction at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay, Wis., will have two MacGregor Rapp HP63-13F fixed boom cranes to handle the hoses that transfer LNG from the