New Jersey Archives - Baird Maritime

September 11, 2019

FEATURE | Modern pilotage: new regulations to improve services, add costs

Written by George Livingstone on September 11, 2019. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Ships & Ports, Pilotage, Ship World Features, Work Boat World Features.

For thousands of years ships have sailed the oceans, through most of recorded history. Most of those centuries saw little change regarding sea transport, wooden vessels ..

April 22, 2019

US federal court fines d’Amico Shipping US$4 million for oil discharge and cover-up

Written by Baird Maritime on April 22, 2019. Posted in Non-Naval (Maritime Security), Pollution/Rubbish Cleanup, Tanker World.

Italian shipping company d’Amico Shipping has been fined US$4 million for dumping “oily waste” and other rubbish into American waters and for deliberately covering ..

October 24, 2018

Barnegat Bay channels dredging begins

Written by Baird Maritime on October 24, 2018. Posted in Dredging and Land Reclamation.

Navigation dredging has begun in the Metedeconk River/Kettle Creek Complex in Ocean County in the US state of New Jersey.

June 24, 2019

Ørsted selected as preferred bidder for New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm

Written by Baird Maritime on June 24, 2019. Posted in Offshore Wind.

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) has selected Ocean Wind, an offshore wind energy project proposed by Ørsted with support from Public Service Enterprise ..

April 4, 2019

Oil from Dublin Express found more than 30 kilometres from spill site

Written by Baird Maritime on April 4, 2019. Posted in Boxship World, Pollution/Rubbish Cleanup.

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, ..

February 4, 2018

New Jersey wants 3.5GW of offshore wind by 2030

Written by Baird Maritime on February 4, 2018. Posted in Offshore Renewables.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed an executive order calling for 3.5GW of offshore wind by 2030.

April 26, 2019

Cascade Cycleboats to launch pedal-powered tour boat service in New York

Written by Baird Maritime on April 26, 2019. Posted in Maritime Tourism.

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 ..

November 20, 2018

New Jersey passenger ferry assists in rescue

Written by Baird Maritime on November 20, 2018. Posted in Ferries, Non-Naval (Maritime Security), Search and Rescue.

A New Jersey commuter ferry rendered assistance to the US Coast Guard in rescuing four people from a boat taking on water near Sandy Hook Bay on Saturday, November ..