Dredge on lakeMississippi River

Rock Island Engineer District announces Mississippi main channel closure

As of September 7, the Rock Island Engineer District, has temporarily closed the main channel of the Mississippi River at Mile 425.7 in Pool 18 near Keithsburg, Ill., to move dredged material

COTP head shot

USCG lifts Lower Mississippi “daylight only” deep-draft vessel restriction

The Coast Guard captain-of-the-port, New Orleans, Capt. Will Watson, has lifted daylight transit only restrictions for deep-draft vessels operating south of Mile 203 on the Lower Mississippi River. The change was announced

Guilty plea in Austal USA fraud case

Another guilty plea in “Fat Leonard” case

U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Enrico DeGuzman has become the second of the “Seventh Fleet Nine” to enter a guilty plea in the ongoing “Fat Leonard” case. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office

Container operations at Port NOLA

Port NOLA resumes container operations

The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) reports that container vessel operations resumed yesterday, September 7, just nine days after Hurricane Ida made landfall in southeast Louisiana as a category 4 storm.

Peter Sand

Peter Sand leaves BIMCO to join Xeneta

BIMCO’s chief shipping analyst Peter Sand is leaving the international shipping association to join Oslo-headquartered ocean and air freight rate benchmarking and market analytics platform Xeneta, where he will serve as chief

Containerized ESS solution

VIDEO: ABB launches “plug and play” ESS solution

ABB has developed a containerized energy storage solution (ESS) that provides plug-in battery power for existing ships, by housing all batteries, converters, transformer, controls, cooling and auxiliary equipment pre-assembled in a self-contained

Hydrogen fuel cell powered ferry

BAE Systems is helping marine operators get to a zero emission future with electric power and propulsion technology

SPONSORED CONTENT: Beneath the decks of vessels across the country, a quiet revolution is underway. Inside their underbelly is a high-tech set of components that work in unison—quietly humming together to push

OSG is sunject of an acquisition offer

Saltchuk suspends discussions with OSG

In a filing with the SEC, Saltchuk Holdings says that it has informed Jones Act tanker and ATB operator Overseas Shipholding Group Inc. (NYSE: OSG) that it is suspending discussions of a

Four honorees for whom tuhs are now named

Four Ingram vessels get new names

On August 30, Nashville, Tenn., headquartered Ingram Marine Group held a re-christening of four vessels that are now M/V Youngsuk (“YS”) Chi, M/V James Hamilton, M/V Kent Freeman and M/V Adolpho A.

BP will offtake WasteFuel bio-methanol

Maersk invests in California green fuels start-up

Having committed to building a new generation of methanol-fueled containerships, A.P. Moller – Maersk is taking steps to secure the e-methanol on which those ships will operate. Today it announced that its

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