The future USNS Newport, the 12th Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport (EPF) being built for the US Navy’s Military Sealift Command, has successfully ..

US Coast Guard air and surface rescue crews at Sector San Juan in Puerto Rico responded to and assisted the distressed Ro-Ro vessel Island Express after it started taking ..

Not having seen a copy of this excellent but somewhat idiosyncratic annual publication for a decade, it has been a pleasure to re-make its acquaintance. With a ..

The future USNS Newport, the 12th Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport (EPF) being built for the US Navy’s Military Sealift Command, has successfully ..

US Coast Guard air and surface rescue crews at Sector San Juan in Puerto Rico responded to and assisted the distressed Ro-Ro vessel Island Express after it started taking ..

Not having seen a copy of this excellent but somewhat idiosyncratic annual publication for a decade, it has been a pleasure to re-make its acquaintance. With a ..

Rhode Island-based Blount Boats has been awarded a US$9 million contract to build an icebreaking buoy tender for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The ..

Great Lakes Shipyard has launched a new ice-class tug slated for The Great Lakes Towing Company. The Damen-designed Wisconsin is the fifth in a series of 10 tugs being ..

Bollinger Shipyards has delivered an articulated tug-barge (ATB) unit capable of transporting multiple clean petroleum products in the Alaska market to Crowley Fuels, the ..

Carnival Corporation has entered into agreements with Turkish maritime reclamation and recycling specialists Ege Çelik and Simsekler General Ship Chandlers and Ship ..

Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding has delivered a new double-ended Ro-Pax vessel ordered by Washington Island Ferry Line. The SeaCraft-designed, ice-capable Madonna is the ..

Carnival Corporation intends to dispose of six cruise ships in its fleet during fiscal year 2020, the company confirmed in a recent statement. The six unnamed vessels ..

Doesn’t time fly when you have a million oilfield workers out of work, a viral pandemic and a global economic recession? In March 2019 we were warning here that Guyana ..

Bribery scandals in Brazil and Iraq connected with SBM Offshore claimed more scalps this month. We previously covered here how SBM’s former CEO Tony Mace had been ..

Seacor Marine has confirmed that a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company has completed the acquisition of the remaining 50 per cent of equity interests in SeaCosco ..

Around US$14.9 million in loans has been awarded to a number of lobster fishing companies in Maine as part of a relief package provided by the US Government through the ..

Food security has consistently been recognised in the global fora as one of the world’s main challenges. And a safe, sustainable supply of fish product – for a global ..

There was a time, decades ago, when I thought that a cannery or reduction plant was just something that I had to walk past to get down to the boat that I crewed on. Of ..

Checkoff-funded research, planning, analysis, and design, led by the United Soybean Board (USB), has led to the launch of a dredging project to provide upgrades to the ..

The term pilot is defined as, “a person who is qualified and usually licensed to conduct a ship into and out of a port or in specified waters.” The Merchant Shipping ..

A big, thick, glossy and beautifully illustrated book in the usual DK (Dorling Kindersley) mould, this offers an excellent overview of almost five millennia of maritime ..