The US Navy welcomes a surface combatant into service while the Italian Navy takes delivery of a new offshore patrol ship. Construction continues on a future US Navy aircraft-capable amphibious ship. Finally, a Western Australia government office places an order for a multi-role vessel that will be built locally.

Thailand’s Customs Department welcomes a new vessel to its fleet while construction is underway on a future US Navy submarine. Newbuilding orders include patrol and tender boats for the Hellenic Coast Guard and a new class of indigenously constructed support ships for the Indian Navy. New patrol boat delivered to Thai ..

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the US Department of Defense (DOD) successfully completed the first recovery test for the crewed Artemis II space mission off the coast of San Diego earlier this month. During the test, the team practiced how they will extract the four astronauts who will venture ..

The US Navy welcomes a surface combatant into service while the Italian Navy takes delivery of a new offshore patrol ship. Construction continues on a future US Navy aircraft-capable amphibious ship. Finally, a Western Australia government office places an order for a multi-role vessel that will be built locally.

Thailand’s Customs Department welcomes a new vessel to its fleet while construction is underway on a future US Navy submarine. Newbuilding orders include patrol and tender boats for the Hellenic Coast Guard and a new class of indigenously constructed support ships for the Indian Navy. New patrol boat delivered to Thai ..

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the US Department of Defense (DOD) successfully completed the first recovery test for the crewed Artemis II space mission off the coast of San Diego earlier this month. During the test, the team practiced how they will extract the four astronauts who will venture ..

Deliveries include new tugs for operators in Greece and Brazil. Orders have meanwhile been placed for escort and ship assist vessels for deployment on the US Gulf Coast and in New Zealand.

This week on Baird Maritime, we once again take a closer look at new tugs and salvage vessels entering service worldwide. The lineup of reviewed vessels includes ship handling tugs for China and Thailand, a multi-role harbour tug for India, and a hybrid electric barge handling boat for US inland waters. Tugs • Towboats ..

Excessive speed during an advanced harbour-assist manoeuvre led to a tug colliding with a container vessel in the Houston Ship Channel in Texas last year, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said recently. The tug George M and the containership MSC Aquarius collided on April 14, 2022, while the tug was ..

US vessel owner SWITCH Maritime recently began a six-month pilot program wherein its newest all-aluminium catamaran ferry will sail operationally in the San Francisco Bay Area in California.

Danish defence officials have confirmed that an expedition cruise ship with 206 people on board ran aground in a national park in a remote portion of northeast Greenland on Monday, September 11. The Danish Joint Arctic Command (JAC) said it received an alert on the afternoon (local time) of Monday stating that the cruise ..

A new catamaran cruise ship has been delivered to a US operator while a Russian inland luxury liner enters its final leg of sea trials. A new sightseeing boat for the Chinese city of Fuzhou is launched into the water for the first time. Finally, a Puerto Rico-based transit authority places an order for four […]

Finally, Singapore-headquartered Britoil announced last week that it had completed the purchase of most of the offshore fleet of Vroon, the Dutch ship-owner.

In 1964, the American civil rights activist Dr Martin Luther King Jr delivered a sermon at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, closing by saying, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” How inspiring, how suitable for a motivational poster. But what about President Vladimir Putin’s ..

It’s all wind installation and support vessels for this week’s roundup as we cover deliveries to Taiwan, Japan, and the UK plus a refitting project on behalf of a US operator. NYK crewboat to work for Siemens Gamesa Hokuyo Kaiun, a vessel operating company under Japan’s the NYK Group, will soon commence operations of ..

We are pleased to once again highlight the global fishing and aquaculture industries by reviewing new vessels entering service worldwide. Some of this week’s inclusions are tuna vessels for Omani and Chinese owners, a trawler for operation in Russia’s Far East, and an electric crewboat that will serve fish farms in ..

The fatal collision between a US Coast Guard cutter and a small boat off the coast of Puerto Rico last year resulted from the failure of either vessel to maintain a proper lookout, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said earlier this week. On August 8, 2022, the Sentinel-class fast response cutter USCGC ..

In a press release, US non-profit National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has declared a state of emergency for Atlantic whales. Here are some excerpts from a piece written by Francine Kershaw, NRDC’s leading east coast Marine mammal expert: “Something is happening off our Atlantic coast. Unprecedented numbers of ..

Seattle, Washington-based boatbuilder Snow and Company has handed over a new all-aluminium monohull pilot boat to the San Francisco Bar Pilots of California. Designed by UK naval architecture firm Camarc Design, the aptly named Golden Gate utilises an existing pilot boat layout that has been updated with a refined hull for ..

Anchorage Launch Services, an Oregon-based operator providing launch, line, pilotage, and cargo services to vessels on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, has taken delivery of a welded-aluminium pilot boat from Metal Shark Boats of Jeanerette, Louisiana. The 47- by 12-foot (14.3- by 3.65-metre) Triumph VII combines a ..

The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has confirmed that US$384.4 million in federal funding will be made available under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for expanding and improving the nation’s ferry service in communities across the country, as well as accelerate the transition ..