Superior, Wis., based Lake Assault Boats will deliver the first of two 35-foot patrol vessels to the U.S. Army’s Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point (MOTSU) base in Brunswick County, N.C., later this month. MOTSU is one of the world’s largest military distribution terminals. The second vessel will be delivered in March; both were purchased through… Read More
Hydraq QQ1000 to be launched at Oi2020 Designed for improved acoustic metrology Measures anthropogenic and environmental noise over a wide bandwidth Provides sensor depth and orientation monitoring Delivers vibration monitoring Electronic self noise < SS0 Seiche, one of the world’s leaders inPassive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), is launching a cutting-edge digital hydrophone developed in partnership withUK-based… Read More
Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc., Panama City, Fla., reports that its Allanton shipyard recently launched the A.Thomas Higgins, the second of two 80-foot, 5,100 HP Z-drive tugs under construction for Bisso Offshore, LLC, a division of E.N. Bisso & Son, Inc. The vessel is being built to Robert Allan Ltd.’s RApport 2400 design and is powered… Read More
Canadian ferry operator BC Ferries has returned to Polish shipbuilder Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A. with a contract to build an additional liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fueled vessel scheduled to go into service in the Southern Gulf Islands in 2022. This vessel will be identical to the three Salish Class vessels built by Remontowa for BC Ferries in… Read More
Jefferson, La., headquartered naval architecture firm MiNO Marine LLC reports that Conrad Amelia Shipyard will soon start production of the second vessel based on its new 6,000 hp inland towboat design. The MiNO 6000 Class Towboat design is a modern, Subchapter M compliant, vessel 166 ft in length and 49 ft wide (overall) with a… Read More
The DRAGFLOW DRM amphibious dredger is the cutting edge of technology for all applications where versatile machinery is needed, capable of moving on land and in water. In this video we show you the scrupulous controls to which a DRM is being submitted before arriving to the end customer.
BOURNE – A new Barnstable County dredge is scheduled to arrive and go into operation by October. Earlier this month, county commissioners awarded a $1.24 million contract to Ellicott Dredges of Baltimore to purchase the dredge. The new excavator will be more similar to the Cod Fish, a dredge the county has used for more… Read More
By Stephen Babcock, Technical.ly Baltimore The inventor of Baltimore’s much-loved Mr. Trash Wheel is working with the marine unit of Yamaha to develop a new debris-collecting device in coastal Georgia. Pasadena, Md.-based Clearwater Mills is working with the Yamaha Rightwaters sustainability program and Yamaha Marine on a device that will be designed for use in… Read More
C&C Marine and Repair, Belle Chasse, La., recently delivered to Upper River Services, St. Paul, Minn., the Mendota, a new 2,013-hp, 76’x30? x9’4? triple-screw towboat. The new towboat is the first new construction vessel ever built for Upper River Services. C&C Marine completed construction of the Mendota in less than six months. Designed by CT… Read More
MICHIGAN – Cable Arm Inc. is a specialist manufacturer of dredging equipment, located in Trenton, Mich. The company’s premier product is a unique clamshell bucket, designed to dig up a layer of soil having constant thickness with each scoop. Conventional clamshell buckets take a bite that is roughly semi-circular in cross section, deep at the… Read More
Eastern Shipbuilding Group Inc., Panama City, Fla., delivered the 90’x32’x10? Brian Boudreaux on May 20. It is the first new construction Subchapter M towboat for Florida Marine Transporters (FMT), Mandeville, La., and the 68th the shipyard has built for FMT. In 2018, the towboat operator signed four more towboats, bringing the total to 70 vessels… Read More
It is always fun for our team to take a concept and see it come to life. Another DSC Marlin Class Dredge on the water! www.dscdredge.com#DSCDredge#TheRightChoice#DredgeLife Source: linkedin.com
It is with great excitement that we are finally able to present you a brand new MEOP product, the MEOP-SMS database. The MEOP-SMS database is a collection of CTD data gathered with CTD-SRDLs attached to elephant seals. The CTD-SRDLs were set in continuous recording mode, and could be recovered in the field, enabling retrieval of… Read More
Debmarine announced that, new vessel will represent the largest ever investment in the history of marine diamond recovery. Debmarine Namibia added that, its Board of Directors have approved the construction of the world’s first ever custom-built diamond recovery vessel. The new vessel is expected to cost US$468 million (N$7 billion) and represents the largest ever… Read More
It wasn’t that long ago when the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce and other South Florida business interests worked hard to amend the federal Water Resources Development Act to begin a major dredging and widening project at Port Everglades. Our efforts to ensure that these infrastructure improvements continue have moved to a new front…. Read More