AUGUST 18, 2014—Crude offloading operations have been temporarily suspended at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port’s Offshore Marine Terminal while an inspection and repairs are performed on the LOOP pipeline. Estimates are that
AUGUST 18, 2014—The largest, most severe outbreak of the ebola virus has impacted the sailings of Mercy Ships, which operates the world’s largest civilian hospital ship in ports on the West Coast
AUGUST 18, 2014—Longer than three U.S. football fields, the 167,000 gross ton, 4,188-passenger Quantum of the Seas was recently floated out at the Papenburg, Germany shipyard of Meyer Werft. Scheduled to make
AUGUST 18, 2014—Wärtsilä will supply the control system for a shore-based Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) fuelling facility in Port Fourchon, LA, owned by New Orleans-based Harvey Gulf International Marine, Inc. The facility
AUGUST 17, 2014 — Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE:HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division christened the company’s fifth U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutter (NSC), James (WMSL 754), Saturday, August 16, in front of nearly
AUGUST 17, 2014 — BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair, San Diego, California, is being awarded a $13,684,941 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee/incentive-fee contract (N00024-11-C-4408) for the USS Howard (DDG 83)
AUGUST 16, 2014—VT Halter Marine, Inc., Pascagoula, MS, recently launched its largest vessel to date—the 692 ft Container, Roll-On/Roll-Off Pure Car Truck Carrier M/V Marjorie C for Pasha Hawaii, Honolulu, HI. The
August 15, 2014—How does a company stay in business for a century and a half—surviving and thriving during a Civil War, two World Wars, and the Great Depression. McAllister’s formula: reinvesting, constantly,
AUGUST 15, 2014—Conrad Industries, Inc., Morgan City, LA, which provides new vessel construction and repair at its five shipyards in Louisiana and Texas, reported a rise in net income and earnings per
AUGUST 15 ,2014 — China’s CIMC Raffles has delivered the ninth jack-up to be built at its Yantai shipyard to Malaysia’s Coastal Contracts Bhd. The rig, Coastal Driller 4001, is built to
