Harvey Milk on launchway

VIDEO: NASSCO christens future USNS Harvey Milk

The General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego christened and launched the future USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO 206), November 6. The ship is the second in the U.S. Navy’s John Lewis-class fleet

Hidden Gem is former Petrobras drillship

Allseas takes wraps off drillship it’s converting to nodules miner

With all major auto makers ramping up plans to switch production to electric vehicles, battery demand looks set soar — and with it demand for the base metals needed to produce them.

One Big Beautiful Bill

Infrastructure Act: Good news for ports, wind and waterways

H.R. 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, on Friday passed the House by a vote of 228 to 206. The measure had already passed the Senate and now awaits President Biden’s

submarine that struck underwater object

Navy relieves command leadership team of sub that struck seamount

After an investigation determined that the “submerged object” struck by Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN 22) on October 2 was an uncharted seamount, the Navy has relieved the boat’s command leadership.

Kotug's modular and scalable E-Pusher

Kotug offers pusher tug series with swappable batteries

Under an MoU just signed with Vancouver, B.C., based Swift Clean Energy, Rotterdam-headquartered towage and marine services specialist Kotug International B.V. is to offer swappable batteries as an option on its E-Pusher

offshore wind installayion vessel

DEME and Prysmian win $1.9 billion Dominion Energy offshore wind award

Dominion Energy Virginia, a subsidiary of Dominion Energy Inc., has awarded the largest U.S. offshore wind installation contract thus far to a consortium made up of Belgium’s DEME Group and Milan, Italy,

NTSB reports on American Mariner strike on AOTON

NTSB reports on deadly collision between fishing vessel and Odfjell tanker

The National Transportation Safety Board issued Marine Accident Brief 21/21 Thursday for its investigation​ of the Jan. 14, 2020, fatal collision between the 37,395 dwt Odfjell managed chemical tanker Bow Fortune and

Craig Perciavalle

Leadership change at Fincantieri Bay

Former Austal USA president Craig Perciavalle is to take the helm at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding following Todd Thayse’s decision to retire after 10 years as vice president and general manager and a

President Biden announces First Movers coalition

First Movers Coalition ups pressure for zero emission shipping

Another day at the COP26 conference and another signal that the pressure is on shipping to decarbonize—with, or without, IMO beefing up its GHG reduction targets. Shipping is a key focus area

Tugboat Argena

Crowley to charter in powerful Tier IV tug

Crowley Maritime’s ship assist and escort services group has agreed to charter its third Tier IV ship assist tug, Athena. Athena follows sister ships Hercules and Apollo from builder Diversified Marine and

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