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VIDEO: LCS 19 completes Acceptance Trials

Lockheed Martin reports that Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 19, the future USS St. Louis, has completed Acceptance Trials in Lake Michigan. Now that trials are complete, the ship will undergo final outfitting

VIDEO: New Metal Shark pilot boats go to work in New Orleans

Jeanerette, La., based shipbuilder Metal Shark has delivered two new pilot boats to New Orleans-based Belle Chasse Marine Transportation, LLC (BCMT). Designed in-house by Metal Shark and built at its Jeanerette, production

VIDEO: Maintenance dredging goes autonomous and underwater

Netherlands-based C-Job Naval Architects has unveiled a concept design for an Autonomous Underwater Maintenance Dredge (AUMD) at a conference in Trondheim, Norway. Developed by C-Job’s Research and Development department, the AUMD has

CVN 78 starts sea trials as Congressional row simmers

After a 15-month pierside maintenance period (Post Shakedown Availability), the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) got underway from Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding (HII-NNS) division October 25 for

VIDEO: Autonomous Mayflower will carry research pods, not pilgrims

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has joined the Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) project, a global consortium of partners, that is building an unmanned, fully-autonomous ship that will cross the Atlantic on the fourth centenary

VIDEO: Icebreaker Polarstern begins year-long Arctic drift

Scientists from an expedition led by Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute are currently setting up camp on an ice floe, located at 85°N, 135° E, on which they plan to make a year

VIDEO: Port of Antwerp orders hydrogen-fueled tug

Belgium’s leading port, the Port of Antwerp has ordered construction of what will be the world’s first tug powered by hydrogen, the Hydrotug. While most attention to hydrogen as a marine fuel

VIDEO: Building the world’s biggest Otto cycle engine

WinGD (Winterthur Gas & Diesel) has released a time-lapse video of the build of a 12X92DF engine by CSSC-MES Diesel Co., Ltd. (CMD) in Lingang, Shanghai. Rated 63,840 kW at 80 rpm,

VIDEO: Damen wins design award for Human Machine Interface for tugs

Damen Shipyards Group has won an UX Design Award for the Human Machine Interface that it has been developing over the past two years for its Next Generation Tug Series. The UX

VIDEO: Japanese companies plan world’s first all-electric tanker

Four Japanese companies — Asahi Tanker Co., Ltd., Exeno Yamamizu Corporation, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd., and Mitsubishi Corporation – have formed a strategic partnership to provide new infrastructure services that focus on

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