FEBRUARY 15, 2018 — Shipbuilder Blount Boats, Warren, RI, reports that it has signed a contract with Fire Island Ferries to construct an 85-foot aluminum ferry boat for service between Bay Shore
FEBRUARY 12, 2018 — Britain’s Wight Shipyard Co has secured its first export order. It comes from Austria and is for a 250-passenger river catamaran to operate for Central Danube Region Marketing
FEBRUARY 2, 2018 — There was an unusual sight on the Solent (the strait that separates the Isle of Wight from the mainland U.K.) on January 31. The sleek new lounge modules
JANUARY 29, 2018 — The Fourth Annual Conference of the Worldwide Ferry Safety Association (WFSA) will take place in lower Manhattan, March 21-23, 2018. The agenda for the conference includes: • March
JANUARY 29, 2018 — South Korea’s plans to pioneer LPG as a marine fuel with a GE COmbined Gas turbine Electric and Steam System (COGES) powered car/passenger ferry are picking up pace.
JANUARY 24, 2018 — New Bedford, MA, based Imtra, a leading marine products manufacturer and importer, reports that it is involved in a number of large ferry projects. These include a six
JANUARY 23, 2018 — The Danish maritime sector is one of the country’s most important export sectors and a major supplier of jobs. However, the industry faces tough competition in a world
JANUARY 22, 2018 — The completed hull of the new Irish Ferries cruise ferry W. B. Yeats was launched January 19 by German shipbuilder Flensburger Schiffbau Gesellschaft (FSG) The €150 million (about
JANUARY 22, 2018 — Swedish ferry operator Destination Gotland AB has signed a contract with Hamburg based Linde Group subsidiary Nauticor GmbH & Co. KG covering the supply of liquefied natural gas
JANUARY 18, 2018 – In a presentation at the International Tourism Fair in Madrid, Spain, ferry operator Baleària today gave an update on the two LNG fueled vessels that it has under
