The Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association’s (GICA) Board of Directors has selected Paul Dittman as its prospective president. He will assume the role at GICA’s 116th Annual Seminar in August 2021. Dittman is
The Mississippi River at the Carrollton Gage in New Orleans has risen above 11 feet prompting the New Orleans Engineer District to activate Phase I flood fight procedures beginning March 11, 2021.
K-Line’s LNG-fueled car carrier Century Highway Green, recently completed by Imabari Shipbuilding’s Tadotsu Shipyard, has become the world’s first vessel to receive ClassNK’s Remote Survey (RMSV) notation on delivery. Version 2 of
As we reported yesterday, the shipping community is calling for a $5 billion IMO shipping decarbonization R&D effort to be funded by a $2 per ton tax on marine fuels. Two pacific
China’s CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding Company has launched the first of two new rail ferries for Jacksonville, Fla., headquartered CG Railway (CGR). The ferries, the first of which is set to start
Philadelphia Ship Repair LLC, Philadelphia, Pa., has been awarded a $16,243,619 firm-fixed-price contract (N32205-21-C-4065) for a 46-calendar-day shipyard availability for the regular overhaul and dry docking for the dry cargo, ammunition ship
The offshore wind crew transfer vessel (CTV) Atlantic Endeavor, owned and operated by Quonset Point, R.I., based Atlantic Wind Transfers (AWT) has recently been delivered to support Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore
Pornpun Settaphakorn, a former executive of foreign defense contractor Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA) who oversaw the company’s Thailand office, appeared in federal court in San Diego, March 8, following her extradition
Norwegian headquartered Fincantieri subsidiary Vard reports that its Vung Tau shipyard in Vietnam has delivered Coral Geographer, the second of two Vard 6 01 design expedition cruise vessels ordered by Australia’s Coral
Shell today signed agreements to charter 10 new crude tankers powered by dual-fuel liquefied natural gas (LNG) engines. Four of the very large crude carriers (VLCCs) have been chartered from Switzerland based
