LNG Hybrid Barge successfully launched
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014 — The SAM Shipbuilding and Machinery shipyard in in Komárno, Slovakia has launched the LNG Hybrid Barge being built for Hybrid Port Energy GmbH, a subsidiary of Becker Marine
Grounded laker refloated
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014 — The American Spirit, a 1,004-foot freighter that had been hard aground in the Straits of Mackinac since Thursday afternoon (see earlier story), was refloated early Friday morning. Today,
Bore Song to fit DeltaLangh scrubber
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014 — Helsinki headquartered shipowner Bore Ltd. is to retrofit the M/V Bore Song with an exhaust gas scrubber and has selected the DeltaLangh scrubber technology originally developed by Langh
Horizon Lines names Rubin as President and CEO
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014 — Jones Act operator Horizon Lines, Inc. (OTCQB: HRZL), reports that the Board of Directors has elected Interim President and Chief Executive Officer Steven L. Rubin to serve as
Keppel set for second Moss FLNGV conversion
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014 — A subsidiary of Singapore’s Keppel Corporation is loaning US$21,688,029 to a subsidiary of Golar LNG as part of the arrangements that will see Keppel Shipyard perform the world’s
BP “grossly negligent” in Deepwater Horizon case
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014 — BP was grossly negligent in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ruled yesterday in New Orleans. The finding of gross negligence rather than simple
Coast Guard responds to grounded laker
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014 — Coast Guard Sector Sault Ste. Marie is responding to a 1,004-foot freighter that ran aground in Straits of Mackinac, Thursday evening. At 6:30 p.m., a search-and-rescue controller at
Two receive Thomas Crowley awards
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014 — Crowley Maritime Corporation’s Jose “Pache” Ayala, vice president, Puerto Rico services, and Shiju Zacharia, director, technology, were presented with 2013 Thomas Crowley awards, the company’s highest honor, at
Huntington Ingalls gets $24 million for CVN 76 job
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014 — Huntington Ingalls Inc., Coronado, California, is being awarded a $24,230,190 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract (N00024-13-C-4315) for USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) fiscal 2014 planned incremental
Workboat whacks windmill: Master fined
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 — The U.K. Maritime and Coastguard Agency reports that the master of a 17 m waterjet propelled wind farm support catamaran has been made to pay £3,000 (about $5,000)