JANUARY 30, 2013 — Resolve Maritime Academy has joined the Transas Global ECDIS training network, known as Get-Net. The academy recently expanded its Fort Lauderdale, FL, training facilities, adding a second ECDIS
JANUARY 30, 2013 — It looks like it’s time for Tokyo-headquartered classification society ClassNK to roll out the celebratory sake barrel again (see earlier story). The society has just reported its official
JANUARY 29, 2013 — Vane Line Bunkering Inc. of Baltimore, Md., is being awarded an estimated $13,139,993 firm-fixed-price contract for transporting Department of Defense owned fuel and marine diesel by tug and
JANUARY 29, 2013 — Union, N.J., headquartered Mack Boring & Parts Co. has is to distribute commercial marine diesel engines from Austria’s Steyr Motors on the East Coast, including Canada and the
JANUARY 29, 2013 — Secretary Ray LaHood this morning told employees of the U.S. Department of Transportation that after serving for four years in President Obama’s Cabinet, he would not be staying
JANUARY 29, 2013 — The United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, N.Y., welcomed its new Deputy Superintendent during a Town Hall meeting that was held at Ackerman Auditorium last week. Susan
JANUARY 29, 2013 — Viking Line, which has just placed the 2,800-passenger dual fuel cruise ferry Viking Grace into service, is among participants in a project aimed at identifying and addressing potential
JANUARY 28, 2013 — General Dynamics NASSCO reports that it has finalized a contract with Totem Ocean Trailer Express (TOTE) to design the conversion of the company’s two existing Orca Class, diesel-electric
JANUARY 28, 2013 — Tracy Murrell, a former chief safety officer for Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., who also holds a U.S. Coast Guard master’s license, is the new director of the National
JANUARY 28, 2013 — UM Bulk AS, Grimstad, Norway, has signed an agreement with Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd, Japan to buy two bulk carriers of the shipbuilder’s 58,000 dwt TESS-58 type. UM