Work is currently underway to convert a decommissioned oil spill response vessel (OSRV) into a new pilot station boat for the Sandy Hook Pilots Association of New York.

The US Coast Guard (USCG) has confirmed that oil recovery operations on the World War II-era shipwreck Coimbra are nearing completion after commencing on May 11 off the coast of Long Island, New York.

Aluma Marine and Fabrication has delivered two 30-foot (nine-metre) shoreline survey boats to the City of New York Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

Cascade Cycleboats of Bend, Oregon, is set to launch NYC Cycleboats, a new tour boat service in New York Harbor that will utilise a fleet of “passenger-driven” stern paddlewheel vessels, on May 3.

Moose Boats and the Rochester, New York, Fire Department (RFD) have signed a contract for a new fire rescue catamaran.

The US Coast Guard-led Unified Command for the Goethals Oil Spill has positively identified that tar balls recovered from Jacob Riis Park in Rockaway Park, New York, correlate to the fuel oil discharge caused by the containership Dublin Express on the Arthur Kill Waterway on March 28.

Dredging works at the Long Island Intracoastal Waterway in New York have been completed.

Norway-based Statoil will develop its 321-square-kilometre lease off New York to develop offshore wind energy.

On Tuesday, the City of New York Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) Staten Island Ferry Division and Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG) cut steel starting the construction of the first of three new Staten Island Ollis-class Ferries.

Blount Boats and Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) have been awarded the contract to design and construct a new passenger-only ferry for Governors Island, New York by the Trust for Governors Island.