GLDD (Great Lakes Dredge) CEO Lasse Petterson

GLDD reports contracts worth $256.2M

Houston-headquartered Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ: GLDD), today reported the receipt of several dredging awards totaling $256.2 million. The awarded work includes: “These important projects which include capital, coastal protection

LCS 21 launch

BAE Jacksonville gets $26.2M mod to LCS 29 contract

BAE Systems Jacksonville Ship Repair LLC, Jacksonville, Fla., has been awarded a $26,225,607 cost-plus-award-fee modification to exercise an option to a previously awarded contract (N00024-20-C-2320) for the accomplishment of a post shakedown

Sounion ablaze in Red Sea

VIDEO: Houthi attack on Sounion threatens an environmental disaster

Video has emerged on YouTube showing the 163,000 dwt Greek-flagged tanker Sounion ablaze following multiple Houthi attacks and threatening to cause an environmental disaster. The U.S. Mission to Yemen issued this statement,

RD-AZ-2300 rim-drive azimuth thruster

Kongsberg Maritime launches new RD-AZ-2300. rim-drive azimuth thruster

Kongsberg Maritime has launched a new rim-drive azimuth thruster, the RD-AZ-2300. With a propeller diameter of 2,300 mm, it is positioned between the existing RD-AZ-1900 and RD-AZ-2600 models, providing ship owners and

Francis Zachariae, Secretary-General of IALA

IALA becomes an Intergovernmental Organization

After more than 10 years of work and four diplomatic conferences, The International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) announces that it has officially changed its status from

Silver Ships Coastal Fast Response Boat In Service of Montenegrin Navy. (Credit: Silver Ships)

Silver Ships conducts training with new Montenegrin Navy response boats 

Silver Ships, a manufacturer of workboats, has recently completed reactivation and crew familiarization training on four Coastal Fast Response Boats (CFRBs) delivered to the Montenegrin Navy. The training spanned two weeks and

M/V Aiviq off Alaska in 2012. [USCG photograph]

Coast Guard names Juneau as home port for new icebreaker

The U.S. Coast Guard recently announced that it will homeport a commercially procured icebreaker in Juneau, Alaska. The Coast Guard is acquiring the Aiviq, a U.S.-registered vessel originally designed for Arctic oil

Two Norsepower Rotor Sails equipped onboard bulk carrier Camellia Dream in operation.

Vale completes world’s first rotor sail installation on capesize bulk carrier

Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and Vale International SA (VALE), based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, announced that a 200,000-ton class bulk carrier, currently employed under a mid–term contract for transportation

Newbuild Shanghai Electric SOV duo: a pair, but not twins

Shanghai Electric takes delivery of Ulstein-designed SOV duo

On Friday, 16 August, Shanghai Electric celebrated naming and delivery of two service operation vessels (SOVs) at ZPMC, Qidong base, China. Based on two different ship designs from Ulstein Design & Solutions

Bridge erection boat (BED)

Birdon set to deliver new Denver-built bridge erection boats to Netherlands

Birdon America Inc. reports that its contract to provide Bridge Erection Boats (BEBs) to the Netherlands Army is progressing on schedule, with six Birdon BEBs in the final stages of assembly with

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