VT Halter Marine Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., has been awarded a $39,808,087 modification to a previously awarded contract to exercise an option for the detail design and construction of an Auxiliary Personnel Lighter
Herbert-ABS Software Solutions LLC has announced the launch of its HECSTAB offshore stability evaluation Software which allows naval architects to easily evaluate multiple design options for non-ship shaped offshore assets. “HECSTAB is
A consortium of leading Netherlands maritime companies and the Royal Netherland Navy have joined forces to investigate the feasibility of methanol as a sustainable alternative transport fuel in the maritime sector. Major
Private equity investors have been on the acquisition trail in the tug and barge sector, with both Vancouver, Wash. headquartered Tidewater Transportation & Terminals and Muskegon, Mich. based Andrie, Inc. finding new
Lindblad Expeditions has opted for Inmarsat’s Fleet Xpress to provide connectivity for its new U.S.-flagged expedition ship, National Geographic Venture. The expedition ship, designed to explore the coastal waters, shallow coves and
Alaska Tanker Company (ATC) is to retrofit the Ecochlor ballast water management system (BWMS) on board three of its VLCCs with an option for a fourth vessel. The installations will start in
Parsippany, N.J. based CR Ocean Engineering, LLC, reports that it has been awarded a contract for exhaust gas scrubbers by a major U.S. based shipping company that will take the total number
St. Catharines, Ontario, headquartered Algoma Central Corporation (TSX: ALC) reports that the recently completed Algoma Conveyer, the third Seawaymax Equinox Class 740-ft self-unloading dry-bulk carrier, has begun its delivery voyage from China
Discharges of waste water from open loop exhaust gas scrubbers seem ever more likely to face restrictions. The latest move towards tighter controls comes the European Commission in the form of a
Seattle based fisheries giant Trident Seafoods Corporation has agreed to reduce emissions of ozone-depleting substances from refrigeration equipment on its vessels, under a proposed settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and