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Houston-headquartered Industrial Service Solutions (ISS) reports that the first four fully-electric towboats to be built in North America are planned to be available for charter in 2025. The towboats are being developed by New York City headquartered Zeeboat LLC to move container barges between terminals that serve containerships in deepwater ports. ISS is providing Zeeboat,… Read More
Austal USA reports that, immediately after finalizing its deal on a new repair facility in the Port of San Diego, it placed an order for a floating dry dock. The new floating dry dock, optimized to efficiently dock small surface combatants and similar sized ships, will be the centerpiece of the new repair facility. Construction… Read More
The amount of offshore wind power in the Massachusetts pipeline is poised to roughly double with the selection Friday of projects from both Vineyard Wind and Mayflower Wind to cumulatively generate 1,600 megawatts of cleaner power for the Bay State by the end of this decade. A group of utility executives working with assistance from… Read More
SSG Michael H. Ollis: First of three new Staten Island Ferries Built by Eastern Shipbuilding Group, the 320 foot long by 70 foot beam SSG Michael H. Ollis is the lead ship in a new series of 4,500-passenger ferries built for the Staten Island Ferry Division of New York City’s Department of Transportation (NYCDOT). Externally,… Read More
Master Boat Builders has begun construction of Crowley’s eWolf, the first all-electric ship assist tug in the U.S., at its shipyard in Coden, Ala. “Initiating construction of the first-ever fully electric U.S. tugboat, the eWolf marks a historic moment for Crowley and Master Boat Builders,” said Garrett Rice, president of Master Boat Builders. “Today is… Read More
Bollinger Shipyards LLC has delivered the 400- by 100-foot ocean transport barge Holland to General Dynamics-Electric Boat’s Groton, Conn., shipyard. The Holland will support the construction and maintenance of the Navy’s Columbia Class ballistic missile submarines and Virginia Class fast attack submarines. General Dynamics-Electric Boat is the prime contractor on the design and build of… Read More
Neptune Americas & Marine, Houston, Texas, recently delivered The Tidal Pioneer (EuroCarrier 2611), a 26- by 11-meter (85- by 36-foot) workboat that is to be used for the growing Canadian renewable energy market. The company says the Bureau Veritas-classed, Canadian-flagged workboat will be used in the building and maintenance of tidal energy projects in Nova… Read More
Late last month, Montreal headquartered CSL Group, the largest owner and operator of self-unloading ships in the world, completed the world’s longest-running trials of B100 biodiesel on marine engines, accumulating nearly 30,000 running hours. Conducted on one half of CSL’s Canadian fleet, the tests resulted in a 23% total fleet life cycle reduction of CO2… Read More
SECOND OLLIS CLASS VESSEL IS EN ROUTE TO NEW YORK HARBOR PORT ST. JOE, FL – Today, Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. (ESG) announced the completion of the second Ollis Class Staten Island Ferry for the City of New York Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) Staten Island Ferry Division. The Sandy Ground, Hull 220, departed ESG’s Port… Read More
In a ceremony held this past Friday, December 3, Sturgeon Bay, Wis., shipbuilder Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding delivered the 340 foot long, 5,500-cubic-meter LNG bunkering barge, Clean Canaveral, to Polaris New Energy. The vessel is the largest ATB bunkering barge thus far built in the U.S. and will soon be followed by a second of similar… Read More
On November 24 at the Yellowknife Geosciences Forum, which is the largest mining and petroleum conference in the Northwest Territories, Arctic Canadian Diamond Company Ltd President and CEO Rory Moore outlined how the company is going to trial Underwater Remote Mining as a way of taking the Ekati operations forward into the future, as current… Read More
Four new offshore wind farm crew transfer vessels (CTVs) to be built at Blount Boats for American Offshore Services (AOS) will be powered by quad Volvo Penta IPS drives. Each 30-meter (99-feet) catamaran CTV will be powered by four IPS900 propulsion drives, two in each hull. The fully integrated system will also include Volvo Penta’s… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District welcomed home the Dredge Jadwin and crew Nov. 18, 2021, to the Vicksburg Harbor just in time for the holidays. The dredge and crew of around 50 set out May 3, 2021, for their annual season of dredging on the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers as well as… Read More
Coinciding with the WEDA conference in Mobile, Alabama, ROHR-IDRECO Dredge Systems (Netherlands/USA, Germany, France) is pleased to announce two new cutter suction dredge models, the “Hawk” and “Falcon,” to its product line-up. Group CEO Fulco Vrooland Löb explains: “With our roots in the wet mining industry, we have been building electrical dredges for decades and… Read More