Brian King, EBDG

A Q&A with Brian King, Elliott Bay Design Group

Last August, Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG), Seattle, Wash., named Brian King, a 30-year veteran at the firm to the role of president-chief engineer. King has direct supervision of the business and

StormGeo and DNV GL sign MoU on maritime data sharing

StormGeo and DNV GL have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at strengthening the presence and integration of StormGeo’s fleet performance management and weather intelligence solutions on DNV GL’s independent data

Port of Callao to install Wärtsilä VTS

Wärtsilä’s Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) solution is to be installed in the port of Callao in Peru, one of Latin America’s most important ports. Dense fog and haze are a consistent challenge

Hiroaki Sakashita named ClassNK President & CEO

Current Senior Executive Vice President Hiroaki Sakashita has been appointed as President & CEO, as well as a Representative Director, of classification society ClassNK, effective today. He succeeds Koichi Fujiwara, who has

Navy readying hospital ships for coronavirus response

The U.S. Navy is preparing to deploy its two hospital ships — USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy —in response to the coronavirus outbreak. However, in a press briefing at the Pentagon yesterday,

DDG 119 completes acceptance trials

The future USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) successfully completed acceptance trials on March 12, returning to Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Ingalls Shipbuilding Division after spending two days at sea in the

Tow to transit Lake Pepin, opening up the head of navigation on the Mississippi

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Paul District reports that Marquette Transportation Company’s M/V Miss Doris, originating from the Quad Cities in Iowa and Illinois and pushing 12 barges en route

B.C. community college to get state-of-the-art simulator

Camosun College, a community college in Victoria, British Columbia, is to get a new state-of-the-art marine simulator, with the help of C$700,000 in funding from J.D. Irving company Atlantic Towing Limited (ATL).

Schottel propulsion for next-gen Yangtze cruise vessel

German propulsion manufacturer Schottel has been awarded a contract to provide azimuth thrusters for a Chinese river cruise vessel. Owned by Changjiang Cruise Overseas Travel and built by the China Merchants Heavy

Bouchard: “All back pay has been processed”

Bouchard Transportation Company, Melville, N.Y., says that all back pay has been processed and that it continues to work on raising capital to enable it to return all its vessels back to

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