A large catamaran Ro-Pax vessel has been delivered to an operator in Denmark as a new vehicle ferry enters service with a New York-based shipping company. Construction has meanwhile started on a coastal catamaran cruise ship for an American owner. Finally, an Italian shipping line expands its order for hybrid monohull ..
Authorities in Scotland have confirmed that 33 people suffered varying degrees of injury after a foreign-owned research vessel toppled over while in drydock in the capital Edinburgh on Wednesday, March 22. The research vessel Petrel, owned by the US Navy’s Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC), had ..
Deliveries include a new air-cushion landing craft for the US Navy and a response boat for the Puerto Rico Police Department. Construction is nearly complete on two new customs boats for Senegal. Finally, the Cyprus Police places orders for new fast coastal craft to be built in Finland. Patrol boat delivered to Puerto Rico ..
Australian media reports that a cruise ship came to the aid of two recreational boaters who were adrift in a dinghy after they abandoned their vessel off the coast of Victoria on Tuesday, March 21. The Victoria Police said that the two individuals, a man and a woman, were on board a boat that got into difficulty near the ..
Royal Caribbean Group joins project to develop new fuel cells for cruise ships Photo: Silversea Cruises Cruise company the Royal Caribbean Group, German shipyard Meyer Werft, and technology company Freudenberg e-Power Systems have launched a joint project that seeks to develop a new type of maritime fuel cell. The first ..
After last week’s analysis of the dramatic purchase of Solstad’s fleet of 37 platform supply vessels (PSVs) by Tidewater, this week’s column deals with a drillship suffering a mooring failure – not whilst drilling on location, thankfully, but alongside at an American ship repair facility. Nobody was hurt, but the ..
Baird Maritime resumes its regular feature weeks by focusing on the steadily growing, global passenger vessel sector. We will review recently delivered large ferries in E ..
Authorities in Scotland have confirmed that 33 people suffered varying degrees of injury after a foreign-owned research vessel toppled over while in drydock in the capita ..
Australia’s nuclear-powered, conventionally armed submarines (SSNs) will be of a new British design, but their reactors, combat systems and heavyweight torpedoes will a ..
WORK BOAT WORLD: Dr Maximo Q. Mejia Jr will assume his post as the new President of the World Maritime University (WMU) effective June 29, 2023, succeeding Dr Cleopatra D ..
Authorities in Scotland have confirmed that 33 people suffered varying degrees of injury after a foreign-owned research vessel toppled over while in drydock in the capita ..
Australia’s nuclear-powered, conventionally armed submarines (SSNs) will be of a new British design, but their reactors, combat systems and heavyweight torpedoes will a ..
WORK BOAT WORLD: Dr Maximo Q. Mejia Jr will assume his post as the new President of the World Maritime University (WMU) effective June 29, 2023, succeeding Dr Cleopatra D ..
After last week’s analysis of the dramatic purchase of Solstad’s fleet of 37 platform supply vessels (PSVs) by Tidewater, this week’s column deals with a drillship ..
Construction has commenced on new harbour tugs for a Chinese port and the Swedish Royal Navy. Development is also underway on a compact multi-role vessel suitable for inl ..
As with Baird Maritime‘s previous feature weeks covering marine towage and salvage, we once again take a closer look into some of the highly capable vessels that ch ..
A large catamaran Ro-Pax vessel has been delivered to an operator in Denmark as a new vehicle ferry enters service with a New York-based shipping company. Construction ha ..
WORK BOAT WORLD: Dr Maximo Q. Mejia Jr will assume his post as the new President of the World Maritime University (WMU) effective June 29, 2023, succeeding Dr Cleopatra D ..
US Coast Guard Activities Europe, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and international flag administrations are investigating marine casualties involving th ..
After last week’s analysis of the dramatic purchase of Solstad’s fleet of 37 platform supply vessels (PSVs) by Tidewater, this week’s column deals with a drillship ..
Some seriously odd things have been happening with everyone’s favourite penny stock deepsea mining player, The Metals Company. On January 31, Gerard Barron’s speculat ..
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February last year sparked a rush for gas in Europe, as the Nordstream pipelines were blown up in the Baltic Sea and President Vladimir ..
The year 1957 was a big one for scientists all over the world. It also almost cost me my life. Nineteen hundred and fifty-seven marked the beginning of the International ..
Sitka, Alaska-based Northline Seafoods has launched a new project to build a mobile commercial salmon processing platform, with construction planned to begin at the Port ..
The US Coast Guard and the crews of two Good Samaritan vessels rescued 13 people from a sinking commercial fishing vessel off Chincoteague, Virginia, on Friday, October 2 ..
New pilot boats have been delivered to owners in Morocco, Essex in the UK, and the US state of Oregon. A Western Australia port operator has meanwhile placed an order for ..
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, approved by the US Congress in December 2022, includes project closeout funding of US$157.3 million for the Port of Corpus Ch ..
The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) has confirmed the completion of critical infrastructure investments as part of a nearly US$850 million plan to upgrade the Por ..
Chinese shipbuilder CSSC Offshore and Marine Engineering Company (COMEC) (formerly Guangzhou Shipyard International) has completed construction of a new luxury Ro-Pax fer ..
Japanese transport company A-Line Ferry recently expanded its fleet with the acquisition of a locally-built Ro-Pax ferry from Naikai Zosen Corporation. Ryukyu Express 7 h ..
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