• PASSENGER VESSEL WEEK
    COLUMN | A load of bollards: the US Coast Guard (and others) should get serious on testing mooring equipment! [Offshore Accounts]

    COLUMN | A load of bollards: the US Coast Guard (and others) should get serious on testing mooring equipment! [Offshore Accounts]

  • PASSENGER VESSEL WEEK
    Focus on Passenger Vessels

    Focus on Passenger Vessels

  • VESSEL REVIEW | Apalachicola – US Navy fast transport fitted with autonomous navigation systems

    VESSEL REVIEW | Apalachicola – US Navy fast transport fitted with autonomous navigation systems

  • VESSEL REFIT | Amazon – McDermott construction vessel upgraded to perform hex joint subsea installation

    VESSEL REFIT | Amazon – McDermott construction vessel upgraded to perform hex joint subsea installation

  • OPINION | US and UK jump-start Australia’s nuclear submarine program

    OPINION | US and UK jump-start Australia’s nuclear submarine program

  • COLUMN | A load of bollards: the US Coast Guard (and others) should get serious on testing mooring equipment! [Offshore Accounts]
  • Focus on Passenger Vessels
  • VESSEL REVIEW | Apalachicola – US Navy fast transport fitted with autonomous navigation systems
  • VESSEL REFIT | Amazon – McDermott construction vessel upgraded to perform hex joint subsea installation
  • OPINION | US and UK jump-start Australia’s nuclear submarine program
PASSENGER VESSEL WEEK
Passenger Vessel News Roundup | March 24 – A Danish fast ferry, US catamaran cruise ship construction and more

Passenger Vessel News Roundup | March 24 – A Danish fast ferry, US catamaran cruise ship construction and more

By Baird Maritime

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 ..

33 injured after research ship topples while in drydock in Edinburgh, Scotland

33 injured after research ship topples while in drydock in Edinburgh, Scotland

By Baird Maritime

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 ..

Maritime Security Vessel News Roundup | March 23 – Patrol boats for Senegal, Cyprus and Puerto Rico plus a new US Navy landing craft

Maritime Security Vessel News Roundup | March 23 – Patrol boats for Senegal, Cyprus and Puerto Rico plus a new US Navy landing craft

By Baird Maritime

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 ..

PASSENGER VESSEL WEEK
Cruise ship rescues adrift boaters off Victoria, Australia

Cruise ship rescues adrift boaters off Victoria, Australia

By Baird Maritime

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 ..

PASSENGER VESSEL WEEK
Marine Propulsion News Roundup | March 21 – Electric retrofit for Michigan Lake Huron ferry, cruise ship fuel cells and more

Marine Propulsion News Roundup | March 21 – Electric retrofit for Michigan Lake Huron ferry, cruise ship fuel cells and more

By Baird Maritime Gear Editor

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 ..

PASSENGER VESSEL WEEK
COLUMN | A load of bollards: the US Coast Guard (and others) should get serious on testing mooring equipment! [Offshore Accounts]

COLUMN | A load of bollards: the US Coast Guard (and others) should get serious on testing mooring equipment! [Offshore Accounts]

By Hieronymus Bosch

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 ..

Focus on Passenger Vessels

Focus on Passenger Vessels

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 ..