Damen Shipyards Group’s specialist inland waterways yard, Concordia Damen in Werkendam, Netherlands, has won a contract to build a 5,400 bhp CDS4115 shallow draft river push boat for Paraguayan shipowner and operator
The Port of London is to operate a green-hydrogen fueled, uncrewed, hydrographic survey vessel, dubbed ZEPHR – Zero Emissions Ports Hydrogen Refilling Survey Vessel. Like the eSOV project just announced by Bibby
The Coast Guard has issued an interim rule as the first step toward implementing statutorily mandated requirements for duck boats — DUKW amphibious passenger vessels. This statutory mandate was enacted after the
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed its environmental review of Equinor and BP’s proposed Empire Wind offshore wind project, which BOEM estimates could power more than 700,000 homes with
A report from the Lloyd’s Register Maritime Decarbonization Hub says that the shipping industry faces two alternative decarbonization paths with hydrogen-based fuels and biofuels vying for prominence. Its analysis of future maritime
A consortium led by Bibby Marine is to receive U.K. government matching funding for the construction of what, they say, will be the world’s first zero-emission electric service operation vessel (eSOV). With
The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) will be hosting a Ship Repair Industry Day on October 10, 2023 at the Norfolk Airport Doubletree Hotel in Norfolk, Va. MSC is encouraging representatives
America’s first female tugboat captain, Elsbeth Smith, born in Daytona Beach in 1941, peacefully passed away surrounded by her five children in St. Augustine, Florida on August 15, 2023, at the age
In its latest report involving a crane barge accident, the NTSB says that an owner’s lack of inspection and maintenance led to the capsizing and sinking of a crane barge last year
The first of five much awaited new training vessels for America’s state maritime academies was delivered today by Philly Shipyard, This first vessel, the Empire State will serve SUNY Maritime College, in