NNS

NNS names two to VP roles

HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has promoted Christie Miller to the role of vice president of communications while Christian Ortego will join the division as vice president and NNS chief counsel.

Mines add to escalating threat environment in Strait of Hormuz

Mines add to escalating threat environment in Strait of Hormuz

In its latest daily update on the situation in and around the Strait of Hormuz, where multiple vessels remain trapped, Windward Ai reports that maritime activity remains constrained —and the threat environment

Dredging Contractors of America (DCA)

DCA: FY2025 another strong year for U.S. dredging

The Dredging Contractors of America (DCA) reports that FY 2025 was another strong year for the U.S. dredging industry, with $1.8 billion in federal dredging awards executed by the American-owned, American-crewed and

Op-Ed: Singapore Cruise Centre reimagines passenger operations with real-time data

Attributed to Lee Siew Kit, Vice President of Technology & IT, Singapore Cruise Centre Singapore Cruise Centre is nearing the final phase of a five-year digital transformation aimed at improving passenger flow

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PPG launches new PPG InsightsNav for seastock coatings

Pittsburgh-headquartered PPG (NYSE: PPG) has launched PPG InsightsNav, an analytics platform designed to help shipowners and operators analyze and optimize purchasing data on the seastock coatings used to protect sea chests and

Op-Ed: Biofuels move from theory to practice at sea

By Siddhesh Prabhu, Surveyor, IRClass For many shipowners, the conversation around decarbonization is no longer about long-term ambition alone. It is increasingly about what can be done now, within existing operational and

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NTSB: Pilot’s orders to tugs led to tanker Platanos’s costly contact with a California pier

The National Transportation Safety Board has released its report on an incident involving the 820-foot long, Bahamas-flagged tanker Platanos. At about 4.12 a.m. local time on Oct. 24, 2024, as a pilot

TotalEnergie CEO and Doug Burgum

DOI reimburses TotalEnergies $928.3M to pivot from U.S. offshore wind to oil and gas

France’s TotalEnergies said today that has signed settlement agreements with the United States Department of the Interior (DOI) to relinquish its Carolina Long Bay offshore wind lease (Lease OCS-A 0545) and its

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Three trainees repatriated from Desgagnés vessels trapped in Persian Gulf

With the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed, there are 20,000 seafarers trapped aboard ships in the Mid East. Thankfully, three of them are now safely home. Quebec City-headquartered Groupe Desgagnés reports that

ASD tug En Avant 19. [Photo: Damen]

Damen delivers ASD tug En Avant 19 to Muller Dordrecht

Damen Shipyards Group has delivered an ASD Tug 2811 to Netherlands operator Muller Dordrecht. The ASD (azimuthing stern drive) tug, named En Avant 19, joins a number of Damen vessels in the

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