USCG reduces underwater survey red tape

USCG moves ahead on plans for Atlantic Coast shipping fairways

The U.S. Coast Guard has released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing a system of shipping safety fairways along the U.S. Atlantic Coast. The NPRM comes as plans for Atlantic Coast

tar ball clean up

USCG lab identifies responsible party in NY/NJ tar ball pollution

A spill on the evening of November 22 during an oil transfer at an oil facility in Bayonne, N.J., has been identified as the source of an incident that subsequently saw tar

SECNAV Del Toro addressed Government Shipbuilders Council

SECNAV leads inaugural meeting of Government Shipbuilders Council

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro kicked off the inaugural meeting of the Government Shipbuilders Council (GSC) at the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore, Nov. 16. Despite its name, the new

USCGC Melvin Bell

Bollinger delivers 55th FRC: USCG Melvin Bell

Bollinger Shipyards LLC has delivered the USCGC Melvin Bell to the U.S. Coast Guard in Key West, Fla. This is the 181st vessel Bollinger has delivered to the U.S. Coast Guard over

Protestor on vessel Cape Orlando

Coast Guard removes protesters from RRF ship Cape Orlando

Coast Guard Sector San Francisco watchstanders received a report of a demonstration happening within the Oakland Harbor near a vessel, the MARAD Ready Reserve Force (RRF) RO/RO ship Cape Orlando, around 8:30

Somali pirates hostage taking

Chief engineer gets prison term for oil record book, conspiracy and obstruction offenses

In a case that tells an all too familiar tale of oily bilge dumping, oil record book falsification, and a failed attempted at cover up, Denys Korotkiy, chief engineer of the vessel

Polar Security Cutter steel is cut

Bollinger Mississippi cuts steel on Polar Security Cutter prototype modules

Bollinger Shipyards LLC has begun cutting steel at Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., on the first of eight prototype modules that will become the foundation of the first U.S. Coast Guard

car carrier fire salvage effort is paying off

Newark car carrier: Post fire salvage effort makes progress

A month ago, responders were still working to extinguish the fire that erupted on the the Grimaldi Deep Sea RO/RO vessel Grande Costa d’Avorio in Port Newark, July 5. Now, the Coast

GAO reports on CPS hypersonic missile deployment

GAO looks at what’s gone wrong with the Coast Guard’s OPC and PSC programs

Two key U.S. Coast Guard shipbuilding programs — the OPC and PSC projects — are “billions of dollars over their initial cost estimates and are more than two years behind schedule,” according

Port Newark ship fire thermal imaging

VIDEO: Port Newark ship fire continues to burn

The deadly car carrier fire aboard the Grimaldi Deep Sea RO/RO vessel Grande Costa d’Avorio that cost two Newark firefighters their lives continued to burn today and seemed likely to continue burning

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