Rolls-Royce has been awarded a contract worth about $80 million by Swire Pacific Offshore to supply advanced anchor handling systems for four offshore vessels, currently under construction in Singapore. The systems are
Blount Boats, Inc., Warren, R.I., has reached an agreement with South Boats Special Projects, Ltd., Cowes, U.K., that makes it the exclusive shipyard to manufacture U.S. flagged aluminum catamarans of South Boats
Coast Guard rescue crews responding alongside U.S. Virgin Islands and Good Samaritan boat crews completed Tuesday morning the safe removal and transfer of all 98 passengers and four crewmembers onboard the Royal
The Damen Changde shipyard in China has delivered the ASD tugs Karloo and Kalarka to Half Tide Marine Pty Ltd of Australia. The tugs were built to the highly successful ASD Tug
The Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has unanimously endorsed the decision of a Panel of Judges that the 2011 IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea should go to Captain
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) said today that it will raise the maximum civil penalty rate for Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) violations from $35,000 to
Japan’s Koji Sekimizu was elected Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), effective January 1, 2012, during the 106th session of the IMO Council. The selection of Sekimizu will be submitted for
Greek ship management company Noka Shipping Company Ltd. pleaded guilty and was sentenced this week in federal court in Corpus Christi for deliberately concealing pollution discharges from the M/V Florin directly into
Incat Crowther licensee Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation, has announced the availability of a new work boat for developers and service providers of offshore wind farms in the United States. Incat Crowther’s first
British Columbia Ferry Services Inc. (BC Ferries) has released its year-end results for fiscal 2011. BC Ferries is one of the largest ferry operators in the world and carried 20.7 million passengers
