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Breaking News from DredgeWire Thursday, February 18, 2021 — Western OH: Construction is underway on a new Supreme Manufacturing, Inc. (SMI) floating clamshell dredge at a sand and gravel operation in Western OH, USA. The new SMI machine is a gantry style dredge with a 16yd3 (12.2m3) bucket (model MD-16). Designed specifically for this operation’s stony deposit, the MD-16 will utilize the latest… Read More
U.S. LNG exporter Cheniere Energy has filed a request with the regulator to place its Corpus Christi LNG Train 3 into commercial operation. The company request in its filing to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that the permit is granted no later than March 12, 2021. In its filing, Cheniere noted that the facility… Read More
New Orleans headquartered Technology Associates, Inc. (TAI), has added a diesel-electric hybrid offshore wind farm Service Operation Vessel (SOV) design to its EnviroMax vessel series. The TAI EnviroMax vessels have been designed to maximize operational capabilities, minimize fuel consumption and carbon foot print. In addition to optimized operation, the designs offer unique features that reduce… Read More
Damen Shipyards recently took advantage of a unique opportunity to deliver a five-vessel order to three separate customers in Canada. Transporting tugs piggy-back on heavylift vessels from the builder to their eventual destination is not new and Damen recently adapted this model when five vessels were required by Canadian clients involving a newbuild pontoon carrying… Read More
Louisiana-based shipbuilder Metal Shark said Monday that they have been selected to develop and implement the Long Range Unmanned Surface Vessel (LRUSV) System for the United States Marine Corps. They say the LRUSV System will usher in a new era of naval technology while increasing the lethality of U.S. forces, with a network of unmanned… Read More
Governor Larry Hogan and the state Board of Public Works (BPW) today approved contracts with two Maryland companies to study use of sediment from shipping channels leading to the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore for innovative purposes such as creation of structural concrete. The contracts follow three others recently approved by the BPW to… Read More
The Jones Act offshore wind farm service operation vessel (SOV) that Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) is building to operate on long term charter to Ørsted and Eversource will be classed by ABS. The SOV will be engineered, constructed and operated by ECO to service the planned Revolution Wind, South Fork Wind, and Sunrise Wind offshore… Read More
Jeanerette, La., headquartered shipbuilder Metal Shark has been selected to develop and implement the Long Range Unmanned Surface Vessel (LRUSV) System for the United States Marine Corps. The LRUSV System will deploy a network of unmanned vessels traveling autonomously for extended ranges and transporting loitering munitions to address targets at sea and on land. This… Read More
JMS Naval Architects designed a 500-ton lift capacity floating dry dock for Biblia, Inc., Marine Towing and Transportation of Savannah, GA. Biblia competitively awarded construction of the dry dock to Conrad Shipyard of Morgan City, Louisiana where it is currently under construction. Biblia owns and operates a fleet of tugs and barges, providing marine transportation,… Read More
WEDA Journal of Dredging (Vol 19 No 1) Source: westerndredging
Port Angeles, Wash.-based Brix Marine (formerly Armstrong Marine USA) has been contracted by Northrop Grumman to build a catamaran survey-research vessel, slated for fall 2021 completion. The 44- by 16-foot vessel is Brix’s third IPS-drive catamaran; the first two were 4216-CTC models, both delivered in 2019, one to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the… Read More
On 16th December, The Great Lakes Towing Company named two new tugs, the Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, at the Cleveland, Ohio, facility of its sister company Great Lakes Shipyard. The new tugs are the fourth and fifth vessels in a series of ten Damen Stan Tug 1907 ICE harbour tugs that Great Lakes Shipyard is building… Read More
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) today authorized the construction of two additional National Security Multi-Mission Vessels (NSMV). The two ships, funding for which was approved in the massive omnibus spending bill passed by Congress last month, will replace aging training vessels at Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, Maine, and Texas A&M Maritime… Read More
The robo-vessel will map the ocean floor, and its solar-powered sensors will sample fish DNA and collect climate data. If you happen to be crossing the San Francisco Bay or Golden Gate bridges this week, look for a massive surfboard with a red sail on top cruising slowly across the water. Don’t flinch if you… Read More