John McDonald headshot

John McDonald elected as ABS president

ABS chairman and CEO Christopher J. Wiernicki, and the ABS board of directors have announced that John McDonald was elected president of ABS at a board meeting on July 18. McDonald, who

Rendering of LCO2 carrier

Capital Gas bets big on LCO2 carriers

With carbon capture and storage set to be an increasingly important part of global decarbonization efforts , Evangelos Marinakis’s Capital Gas Ship Management Corp. has placed an order for what will be

Biden gets an explainer on subsea rock installer

Biden at Philly Shipyard for GLDD subsea rock installer steel cut

President Joe Biden visited Philly Shipyard, Thursday, as the yard and Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company (GLDD) celebrated the cutting of first steel for the first Jones Act-compliant subsea rock installer

LNG bunkering at Port Canaveral

First cargo vessel bunkers with LNG at Port Canaveral

While Port Canaveral, Fla., has been bunkering cruise vessels since June 2021, it has just hosted its first LNG bunkering of a cargo vessel when the largest Jones Act LNG bunker barge

54th Fast Response Cutter

Bollinger Shipyards delivers 54th Fast Response Cutter

Bollinger Shipyards LLC has delivered the USCGC William Sparling to the U.S. Coast Guard in Key West, Fla. It is the 180th vessel Bollinger has delivered to the U.S. Coast Guard over

OSHA awards whistleblower seaman

Maersk Line Limited ordered to pay whistleblower seaman more than $700,000

A federal whistleblower investigation has determined that the Maersk Group’s U.S.-flag operation, Maersk Line Limited, suspended and terminated a seaman illegally after he had reported numerous safety concerns about a company vessel

New IFREMER research vessel

Freire Shipyard selected to build new IFREMER research vessel

The family-owned Freire Shipyard in Vigo, Spain, has recently signed a contract with the French national institute for ocean science IFREMER for the construction of a new vessel. It will join the

Klein talks Gulf of Maine offshore wind

BOEM sets date for Gulf of Mexico offshore wind lease sale

The U.S. Department of the Interior said today that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will hold the first-ever offshore wind energy lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico on August 29,

Putin talks about return to Black Sea grain deal

Russia follows grain deal pull out with missile strikes, demands and threats to merchant ships

Following two nights of missile and drone strikes that reportedly destroyed 60,000 tonnes of grain in Ukraine’s port of Odesa region, Russian President Vladmir Putin today set out his demands for renewing

NTSB reports on City of Boston

NTSB releases report on fishing vessel Grace Marie sinking

The failure of the doubler-plated hull under the engine room likely caused the flooding and sinking of the 1978-built fishing vessel Grace Marie near Gloucester, Mass., last year, the National Transportation Safety

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