Outrage grows over imprisonment of security ship crew
OCTOBER 23, 2013 — U.S.-based maritime security firm AdvanFort is stepping up efforts to free the 35 crew and guards aboard the Seaman Guard Ohio who have been detained in an Indian
Blackstone-controlled APT files for IPO
OCTOBER 23, 2013 — Blackstone-controlled American Petroleum Tankers Partners LP has filed with the SEC to raise up to $173 million in an initial public offering. It plans to list on the
Jotun launches performance package for eco ship builders
OCTOBER 23, 2013 — Jotun Hull Performance Solutions (HPS) has launched the HPS Newbuilding Solution at the Kormarine event in South Korea. The aim is to help shipbuilders delivering eco-design vessels to
Opinion: When Washington got things done
OCTOBER 22, 2013—With the government shutdown having sent Washington into a tailspin and validating Americans’ disdain for beltway politics, you can’t help but think about a time in our history when people
Federal judge dismisses government suit against Bollinger
OCTOBER 22, 2013—A judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana yesterday dismissed a False Claims Act suit over the alleged failure of eight U.S. Coast Guard patrol
CBO: Shipbuilding plan will cost more than Navy says
OCTOBER 22, 2013 — No surprise here: The Congressional Budget Office estimate of the cost of new-ship construction in the Navy’s 2014 shipbuilding plan is higher than the Navy’s. The CBO’s number
Pacific Basin may sell its towing business
OCTOBER 22, 2013 — Hong Kong headquartered bulker operator Pacific Basin is looking at the possibility of selling its towage operations. PB Towage harbor tug These include harbor towage in Australia through
Japanese consortium takes stake in Brazilian shipbuilder
OCTOBER 22, 2013 — Five Japanese companies are to take a 30 percent stake in Brazilian shipbuilder ECOVIX — Engevix Construções Oceânicas S.A. They are shipbuilders Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), Imabari
Two Leevac yards team to build Z-Tech tug
OCTOBER 22, 2013 — Leevac Shipyards, LLC recently delivered the first of two 60-t bollard pull Z-Tech 2400 harbor tug boats, the Chloe K, to Bay-Houston Towing Co. Leevac has shipyards in
Davie floats out first of Cecon trio
OCTOBER 21, 2013 — Cecon ASA reports that the first of the three construction vessels building for it at Chantier Davie Canada Inc., Lévis, Quebec, was successfully floated out, as scheduled, on