Ulstein books first X-Stern order
JANUARY 13, 2015 — Norway’s Ulstein Verft has signed a shipbuilding contract with Hamburg, Germany, based Bernhard Schulte for two vessels that will be the first to be built at the shipyard
Great Lakes bulker to get Belco exhaust gas scrubbers
JANUARY 13, 2015 — Parsippany, NJ, based Belco Technologies Corporation, a division of DuPont Sustainable Solutions, has been awarded a contract for two Belco Marine Scrubbers by Interlake Steamship Company. The closed
Boston Harbor Cruises to repower high speed cat
JANUARY 13, 2015 — Boston Harbor Cruises is to drydock its Provincetown Ferry, the high speed catamaran Salacia, at Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Somerset, MA, for a $2.6 million dollar engine refit. The 600
SeaRiver christens second Aker Philadelphia newbuild
JANUARY 13, 2015 — Exxon Mobil Corporation’s marine affiliate, SeaRiver Maritime, Inc., yesterday named the Eagle Bay, the second of its two new U.S.-flag crude oil tankers, at a ceremony at Aker
MOL operated containership runs aground
JANUARY 13, 2015 — Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. reported yesterday that the 4,600 TEU MOL-operated containership MOL Express, on charter from Seaspan Corporation, ran aground in shallow water in Tateyama Harbor, Chiba
Rocket landing on spaceport barge: Close, but no cigar
JANUARY 12, 2015 — “Close, but no cigar,” was how SpaceX entrepreneur Elon Musk reported the company’s first attempt to land the latest version of its reusable Falcon 9R rocket vertically on
Meercat completes workboat for Scottish fish farm
JANUARY 12, 2015 — Meercat Workboats Ltd., Portsmouth, U.K., has delivered its first vessel since being acquired last September by Burgess Marine. The just completed vessel is a 14 m steel workboat
Tidewater Norwegian subsidiary takes delivery of PSV
JANUARY 12, 2015 — Troms Offshore Supply AS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tidewater Inc., has taken delivery of its new build no 791 at the Vard Vung Tau shipyard in Vietnam.. The
Feds face lawsuit on offshore fracking
JANUARY 12, 2015 — A conservation group has sued the federal government for failing to release public documents revealing the extent and risks of offshore fracking (hydraulic fractioning) in the Gulf of
Horizon Lines to install scrubbers on three Alaska ships
JANUARY 12, 2015 — Horizon Lines, Inc. (OTCQB: HRZL) says it has entered into a supply agreement with Alfa Laval Aalborg Nijmegen BV for design and procurement of PureSox 2.0 exhaust gas