Houston pilots have taken the first step towards bringing larger vessels to the Houston Ship Channel, port chairman Ric Campo told Port Houston when it met virtually in regular session on Tuesday.
The Cyprus Shipping Deputy Ministry (SDM) is marking the Day of the Seafarer by issuing a circular that outlines plans to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to all seafarers on Cyprus-flagged and Cyprus-managed vessels.
U.S. offshore wind development is picking up pace, with the Biden administration doing everything open to it to remove kinks from the regulatory pipeline. With multiple Atlantic Coast projects moving along, the
One of America’s best known Great Lakes shipbuilders has come under new ownership. Superior, Wis.-based Fraser Industries LLC has been acquired by Infrastructure Acquisition Partners LLC, a joint venture between Norway’s Cleaves
For a second year in a row, IMO’s Day of the Seafarer is being marked as hundreds of thousands of seafarers continue to face restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) reports that its Maritime Finance business is providing $42 million in financing for a portfolio of seven dry bulk vessels. Dynamic Bulk Holdings, a leading dry bulk
The Board of WISTA USA, the Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association, appointed Boriana Farrar, vice president and chief legal officer of Patriot Contract Services LLC, as president at its 2021 Annual
Crowley reports that it recently took delivery of its new 55,000-barrel, articulated tug-barge (ATB), the Aurora / Qamun. The 410-foot vessel is the second ATB in Crowley’s fleet, after the Aveogan /
In 2015 Sweden’s Stena Line made history by converting one of the largest RoPax ferries in the world, the 240-meter Stena Germanica, to become the world’s first methanol powered ferry (see earlier
Panama City, Fla., based Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. (ESG) reports that it has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with Slidell, La., headquartered Bayou Metal Supply to provide material and labor in support