Silver Ships vessel

Silver Ships gets $16.3 million NAVSEA award

NAVSEA has awarded Theodore, Ala., aluminum boat specialist Silver Ships a $16,352,650 firm-fixed-price, delivery award for the procurement of 10 Navy 11-meter Surface Support Craft and 26 Coast Guard Special Purpose Craft

marine highway grant awards announced

MARAD springs a surprise in marine highway grant awards

MARAD’s latest round of marine highway grant awards include one that may come as a surprise: $600,000 to study conversion of the historic coal-burning ferry SS Badger to a zero-emission vessel —

Briggs Marine vessel keel laying

Freire lays keel of new Briggs Marine maintenance support vessel

Spain’s Freire Shipyard is moving right along on the 40-meter maintenance support vessel ordered by U.K.-based Briggs Marine in March, holding a keel laying ceremony for the vessel on September 19. “It’s

OrbitMI CEO with Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore president

BV takes stake in NYC based OrbitMI

Bureau Veritas (BV) has announced a strategic investment in OrbitMI, a New York City based maritime software company named as one of 2023’s most innovative companies in maritime in a recent report

Mattias Hellstrom

Mattias Hellstrom named Svitzer global CCO

Maersk group towage operator Svitzer has named Mattias Hellstrom as its new global chief commercial officer (CCO), effective October 1, succeeding Videlina Georgieva, who was recently appointed managing director of Svitzer Australia.

Offshore hydrogen and ammonia production platform

ABS issues AIP for offshore hydrogen and ammonia production platform

An offshore hydrogen and ammonia production platform design from the Korea Research Institute of Ships & Ocean Engineering (KRISO) has received approval in principle (AIP) from ABS. The design developed by KRISO

Rendering of nuclear power generation ship

Crowley inks MOU on nuclear power generation ship

Crowley is teaming with the company that builds the reactors for the U.S. Navy’s nuclear ships, BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT), on a concept nuclear power generation ship with the potential to

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock gets dredging awards

New awards take GLDD dredging backlog to $1.1 billion

America’s largest provider of dredging services, Houston-headquartered Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ: GLDD), reports that it has booked recent awards totaling $177 million, taking its dredging backlog to approximately $1.1

Somali pirates hostage taking

Chief engineer gets prison term for oil record book, conspiracy and obstruction offenses

In a case that tells an all too familiar tale of oily bilge dumping, oil record book falsification, and a failed attempted at cover up, Denys Korotkiy, chief engineer of the vessel

Rendering of new container terminal

Why “Ag Coast” ports are backing Port NOLA’s new $1.8 billion container terminal

The Port of New Orleans is pushing ahead on its plans to develop the new Louisiana International Terminal (LIT). The new $1.8 billion state-of-the art container terminal will eliminate air-draft restrictions that

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