Halter Marine delivered the previous ship in the T-AGS series, USNS Maury (T-AGS 66) in 2016.

Halter Marine gets T-AGS 67 contract

Halter Marine, Pascagoula, Miss, has been awarded a $149,053,160 fixed-price-incentive (firm target) modification to definitize contract number N00024-19-C-2208 for the detail design and construction of one oceanographic survey ship (T-AGS 67). The

floating fire house

San Francisco gets world’s first floating fire station

Seemingly overnight, a new structure appeared on San Francisco’s waterfront back in December. Situated at Pier 22½ just behind the historic Firehouse 35 and nestled beside the Bay Bridge, this floating building

Nigel Cabral

PODCAST: Small-scale ferry operations and the bigger picture

In this edition of Listen Up!, we talk to Nigel Cabral, who is the CEO of Tideline Marine Group, a ferry services and maritime consulting firm based in Tiburon, Calif., that focuses

Biden XO bans U.S. investments in Chinese shipbuilding giants

If you’re a “United States person” and have been thinking of investing in the Chinese shipbuilding industry, think again. President Biden yesterday issued an Executive Order (XO) aimed at “addressing the threat

Shipping CEOs to IMO: We need massive decarbonization R&D fund

The CEOs of 17 major container and RO/RO carriers—including Thomas Crowley, owner & CEO, Crowley Maritime, and Matthew J. Cox, Chairman & CEO, Matson Inc.—have written an open letter to the International

Dredging leaders engage with USACE general

USACE and dredging industry sign MOU to improve safety culture

The Council for Dredging and Marine Construction Safety (CDMCS) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) have inked a strengthened partnership on safety and discussed ways, through shared understanding and commitment,

Burned out shell of containership seen from air

X-Press Pearl: Environmentalists file lawsuit

As the smoldering remains of the containership X-Press Pearl settle into the sea, Sri Lanka’s Centre for Environmental Justice, which is associated with Friends of the Earth Sri Lanka, today filed a

Forward end of Offshore patrol cutter

Coast Guard budget request funds key shipbuilding programs

Highlights of the Department of Homeland Security’s 2022 budget request for the U.S. Coast Guard include $170 million to fund Polar Security Cutter program management and provide for long lead time materials

Aerial view of boat

Ingram brings two new vessels into fleet

Ingram Marine Group, along with Cenac Marine Services, Main Iron Works and other stakeholders, this week held a ceremony christening the M/V Adrienne M. Moore and honoring the M/V Tom Cornwell. Both

Attendees at dump scow barge steel cutting

Conrad cuts steel for GLDD dump scow barges

Conrad Shipyard recently hosted a steel cutting ceremony for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company LLC (GLDD) at its shipyard in Morgan City, La. The steel is for three 7,100-cubic-yard dump scow

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