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)
Vancouver Shipyards starts work on cable ferry
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 — Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards (VSY), North Vancouver, BC, Canada, yesterday officially started construction on the new cable ferry it is building under a $15 million contract from BC Ferries
FMC’s Doyle: “Plenty of LNG for marine fuel”
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 — If anyone had any doubts about the ongoing availability of LNG as a marine fuel, Federal Maritime Commissioner William P. Doyle laid them to rest today, noting that
Another busy day for Eastern Shipbuilding
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 — Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc., Panama City, FL, had a busy day August 28, with the delivery of a further inland towboat to Florida Marine Transporters, Inc., Mandeville, LA,