Great Lakes Towing christens third Damen-designed tug in series

The Great Lakes Towing Company celebrated its 120th Anniversary with the christening of its newest tugboat, the Michigan. The newly constructed tug is the third in a series of five, 64-foot Damen

Fincantieri Marinette Marine adds more brass to its board

As the competition to build the Navy’s new FFG (X) frigate heats up, Fincantieri Marinette Marine, Marinette, Wisc., is bringing more retired After announcing that its board had named retired Navy three-star

LHA 7 completes builder’s trials

The U.S. Navy’s newest America-class amphibious assault ship, the future USS Tripoli (LHA 7), successfully completed builder’s trials July 19, reports NAVSEA. The ship returned to the Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII)-Ingalls Shipbuilding

Sweden’s largest hybrid car ferry ready to enter operation

Estonian shipyard Baltic Workboats has delivered the Tellus, Sweden’s largest hybrid-electric car ferry. Commissioned by the Swedish Transport Administration, the ferry will mainly operate inn fully-electric mode, bringing the government agency closer

Time for cruise lines to swap out first-generation BWTS?

French UV-based water treatment specialist Bio-UV Group has secured a contract with Columbia Cruise Services to retrofit a Bio-Sea ballast water treatment system to aa 28,890 gt cruise ship. Installation and commissioning

Quark picks more striking paint job for polar ship

Seattle, Wash., headquartered Quark Expeditions has released new renderings of its 200 passenger polar expedition ship, Ultramarine, which will set sail in the Antarctic 2020/21 season. Under construction at Croatia’s Brodosplit shipyard,

Canada awards Davie, Seaspan frigate maintenance contracts

Canada has unveiled plans to invest C$7.5 billion (about US$5.74 billion) in maintaining the Royal Canadian Navy’s fleet of 12 Halifax-class guided missile frigates between now and their planned retirement in the

Fincantieri Marinette Marine names retired admiral as president

The Board of Directors of Fincantieri Marinette Marine Corporation named retired Navy three-star admiral Richard W. Hunt as the president of the shipyard at its annual board last week. “This move is

Van Oord orders third dredge at Keppel FELS

Rotterdam headquartered Van Oord has exercised an option to build a third trailing suction hopper dredge at Singapore’s Keppel FELS shipyard. Like two dredges ordered from Keppel Offshore & Marine by Van

Austal says ferry orders boost earnings outlook

Australian shipbuilder Austal Limited (ASX:ASB) is raising its earnings outlook, based on its healthy backlog of commercial ferry orders. Following preparation of its preliminary FY2019 results and its outlook for FY2020. Austal

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