Wärtsilä and Singapore harbor and terminal towage operator PSA Marine (Pte) Ltd. have successfully completed initial sea trials for the “IntelliTug” project (see earlier story). The PSA Polaris, a harbor tug owned
Anchorage, Alaska, headquartered Cook Inlet Tug & Barge (CITB), an independently managed subsidiary of Foss Maritime Company, is adding a versatile shallow draft tugboat, the Bristol Wind, to its fleet in mid-April.
Melville, N.Y., based Bouchard Transportation Co., whose recent problems have been well-publicized, says that it has been “able to close on financing to start paying back vessel wages and meet other outstanding
Since the publication of Subchapter M, many AWO members have expressed concern with the rule’s requirements to carry three day and three night visual distress signals (e.g. flares) aboard towing vessels on
The American Waterways Operators (AWO) presented a webinar February 25, on “Safety Know-How: Helping Your Crewmembers Embrace and Understand Your TSMS.” Panelists included Cmdr. Jennifer Hnatow, chief of the U.S. Coast Guard’s
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration today announced the availability of $9.5 million in grant funding for the America’s Marine Highway Program (AMHP). Though both Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao and
The National Transportation Safety Board has issued its report on a February 13, 2019, incident in which, transiting downbound on the Lower Mississippi River, the 1961-built towing vessel Miss Dixie (owned by
Under a recently signed Memorandum of Understanding Abu Dhabi Ports is collaborating with Vancouver, B.C., based naval architecture firm Robert Allan Ltd. to on the research and development of remotely-controlled marine tugs
Foss Maritime christened the Jamie Ann, the first of four new ASD-90 tugs under construction at the Nichols Brothers Boat Builders shipyard, in Freeland, Wash. on Saturday, February 29, 2020. Her three
Officials of SUNY Maritime College, Fort Schuyler, N.Y., recently joined executives of ferry operator Hornblower in a ceremony that saw the college’s navigation lab renamed the “Hornblower E-Navigation Lab.” The naming marked