HOS vessel has been chartered by MSC

Hornbeck Offshore gets $8.4 million MSC contract mod

Hornbeck Offshore Operators LLC, Covington, Louisiana (N3220521C2296), has been awarded a $8,418,000 option (P00010) for the fixed-price portion of a previously awarded, firm-fixed-price contract with reimbursable elements to exercise a one-year option

Floating offshore wind project featuring Principle Power platforms

DOE names 9 phase one winners in FLOWIN prize contest

The U.S. Department of Energy today announced the Phase One winners of the FLoating Offshore Wind ReadINess (FLOWIN) Prize. Open to floating wind platform designers, fabricators, and project site developers, the three-phase

new MAN dual-fuel four stroke passes an approval milestone

New MAN dual-fuel four-stroke passes TAT

MAN Energy Solutions’ MAN 49/60DF engine has received its Type Approval after a five-day program on the testbed at the company’s Augsburg, Germany, headquarters. The Type Approval Test (TAT) of the new

Great Lakes bulk carrier kicks off Great Lakes operating season

Great Lakes operating season starts

The Great Lakes shipping season is underway after the 1,004 foot long Great Lakes bulker Edwin H. Gott made her way into the Poe Lock, kicking off the 2023 navigation season at

Wavelab is a testbed for a planned Kiel autonomous ferry service

VIDEO: Kiel launches autonomous ferry test vessel

Stockholm, Sweden, is not the only European city aiming to get an autonomous passenger ferry into operation (see earlier story). Kiel, Germany, also has a boat in the water. That vessel is

Firefighters resond to Spirit of Boston fire

Spirit of Boston fire: USCG convenes marine casualty investigation

The Coast Guard has convened a formal marine casualty investigation into a fire that occurred Friday evening aboard the small passenger vessel Spirit of Boston. Rear Adm. John Mauger, Coast Guard First

WTIV with telescopic crane

Japan’s largest WTIV features first-of-its kind telescoping crane

Recently delivered by the Japan Marine United (JMU) shipyard to Shimizu Corp., the GustoMSC designed and equipped offshore wind turbine installation vessel Blue Wind is Japan’s largest WTIV to date, and will

FMD is launching its Defense Accelerator program

FMD launches defense accelerator program

Fairbanks Morse Defense (FMD), a portfolio company of Arcline Investment Management, has launched the FM Defense Accelerator program to identify and nurture emerging technologies with mission-critical applications for the future of maritime

Idwal CEO

Idwal under new ownership

Cardiff, Wales, based vessel inspection specialist Idwal Marine Services has become a portfolio company of LDC, the private equity arm of the U.K.’s Lloyds Banking Group. With an extensive surveyor network, Idwal

Next Generation Shipping Act reintroduced

Vessel sharing arrangements face new Congressional challenge

Container shipping alliances remain nobody’s darlings in Washington and their vessel sharing arrangements are again in the cross-hairs. Congressman Jim Costa (D.-Calif) has reintroduced the bipartisan “Ocean Shipping Antitrust Act.” The legislation

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