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NAPA supplies loading computers for 55 Bourbon OSVs

NOVEMBER 29, 2012 — Helsinki, Finland, headquartered software house NAPA Group is supplying loading computers for 55 Bourbon offshore support vessels. The software is being installed on twenty Bourbon Explorer 500 series

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Marad funds three vessel repowering demo projects

NOVEMBER 28, 2012 — U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced a combined $1.5 million in funding for three demonstration projects at Los Angeles Harbor, Calif.; Puget Sound, Wash., and Perryville, Mo.,

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Steve Durrell out at Irving Shipbuilding

NOVEMBER 28, 2012 — Steve Durrell is no longer the president of Irving Shipbuilding, Halifax, N.S., Canada, and has left the company, according to Canadian news sources. They quote Mary Keith, a

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Veteran cruise ship starts new life in China

NOVEMBER 28, 2012 — A cruise ship originally built in 1986 by Kockums Varv, Malmö, Sweden, for Carnival Cruise Lines as MS Jubilee, is now operating as MS Henna for China’s HNA

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Kirby to acquire Penn Maritime for $295 million

NOVEMBER 28, 2012 — Houston-headquartered Kirby Corporation (NYSE: KEX) is to acquire Penn Maritime Inc. and Maritime Investments LLC, which operates a 1.9 million barrel fleet of 18 heated, double-hulled tank bargesand

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Kirby to acquire Penn Maritime for $295 million

NOVEMBER 28, 2012 — Houston-headquartered Kirby Corporation (NYSE: KEX) is to acquire Penn Maritime Inc. and Maritime Investments LLC, which operates a 1.9 million barrel fleet of 18 heated, double-hulled tank bargesand

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Resolve completes Jireh wreck removal

NOVEMBER 28, 2012 — Resolve Salvage & Fire, the salvage, emergency response and wreck removal subsidiary of Resolve Marine Group, Inc., has completed the removal of the grounded 202-ft freighter Jireh from