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

NorthStandard leaders

VIDEO: NorthStandard P&I merger set to trigger

The merger of two major players in the marine mutual insurance market — North P&I and Standard Club — is set to come into effect on February 20, establishing NorthStandard as one

floating wind research project

Maine floating wind research project moves along

A floating offshore wind research project off the coast of Maine has cleared another regulatory hurdle. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has now announced a Determination of No Competitive Interest

False Claims Act case

Russia sanctions: Two indicted, one arrested, in Tango yacht case

Back in April last year, U.S. and Spanish authorities seized the $90 million yacht Tango owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg. On Friday, indictments were unsealed in the U.S. District Court

Longship newbuilds

Longship claims 45% fuel consumption reduction for newbuild quartet

Groningen, Netherlands, based short sea shipping specialist Longship has placed an order with Atlas Shipyard in Turkey for four methanol-ready newbuilds that it says will deliver a reduction in fuel consumption of

Wiernicki at podium

Wiernicki: LNG is “a fuel in transition”

ABS chairman, president and CEO Christopher J. Wiernicki made it clear that LNG will be a key fuel in the energy transition in a keynote speech at the 6th Liquefied Gas and

Future subsea protection ship

U.K. to convert offshore construction vessel to subsea protection ship

As last year’s incident involving the Nordstream pipeline in the Baltic underscores, subsea infrastructure can be extremely susceptible to sabotage. The U.K. is taking the problem sufficiently seriously that last November it

Gremex case ruling

Defendants in M/V Joanna bulker pollution case fined $2 million

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana reports that Empire Bulkers Limited and Joanna Maritime Limited, two related companies based in Greece, were sentenced today for committing knowing and

BHGI naval architects

BHGI promotes two team members

Bristol Harbor Group, Inc. (BHGI), Bristol, R.I., has promoted two key members of the firm’s team, Ian M. Lawson, P.E. and Teri L. LaForest, P.E., to senior naval architects on earning their

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