Newport News, Va., headquartered Ockerman Automation Consulting has named Jon Holvik as executive vice president for sales, overseeing business expansion activities for the design and integration of a wide variety of propulsion,
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) yesterday announced the recipients of $384.4 million in federal funding for ferries programs, with the Alaska Marine Highway System accounting for a whopping
U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) said yesterday that a total of $11,298,010 million in federal transportation grants is being made to two New Jersey ferry operations through the
The Naples headquartered Grimaldi Group is continuing its ammonia-ready car carrier shopping spree. Earlier this month, it added five newbuilds to its tally. On January 23, it added another five by exercising
Southampton, U.K., based Chartwell Marine has been awarded a GBP 320,000 (about $395,000) Innovate UK Smart Grant. Chartwell, whose designs have been selected for a number of Jones Act CTV builds, says
Kotug International, based in Rotterdam, has provided towage and related services to the maritime industry for years. Leading that family owned business is Ard-Jan Kooren, who joined Kotug in 1990 as an
The third of three identical battery-powered zero-emission ROpax ferries built by Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine has been handed over to Norwegian ferry operator Norled AS. The vessel, the Leikanger, is now headed to
TTB 2023 returns to Mobile, Ala., on March 7-8 at the Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza hotel and will include a focus on “making the green transition work.” As changing emissions regulations in
Australian Shipbuilder Incat Tasmania Pty Ltd says it is “poised to revolutionize the world’s ferry market.” Chairman Robert Clifford, returning from a trip to Europe and the Americas, reports very positive engagement
No paddlewheels, smoke stacks or gingerbread here. Danish naval architectural firm Knud E. Hansen has unveiled a concept design for a U.S. river cruise vessel that makes no bows to the steamboat
