Maritime Blogs
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Achieving Critical MASS
The U.S Maritime Administration sponsors a conference on the U.S. Vessel Automation Industry. It’s about time – right on time. Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships - the time is now.Linthicum, MD: All the usual suspects, along with many new faces…
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Peaks and Valleys
The Blue Ridge Mountains beckon, promising cooler weather, an improving environment, and a little bit of maritime, for good measure. This weekend, we answered the call.Mount Mitchell, NC: In the choppy wake of putting not one, but two magazines to bed in the previous eight days…
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GLDD Emergency Response Efforts: Missouri River Levee Breach
Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company, LLC (GLDD) is working as a subcontractor with Western Contracting Corporation to provide fill for an emergency sand berm to close a levee breach at river mile 572 on the Missouri River.GLDD’s Hydraulic Cutter Suction Dredge ‘Iowa’ is dredging approximately 350…
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Trade, Trump … and Trust
Winning this or any other ‘trade war’ will take intestinal fortitude. Worth it or not, I’m not sure we have what it takes.As we rapidly churn towards the midpoint of 2019, the maritime sector’s biggest story of the year – and arguably its biggest heartburn – surrounds the topic of trade…
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365 Days Define the Domestic Workboat
A ‘work in progress,’ the North American brown water, shallow draft sectors have experienced a tumultuous year of evolution, changing market conditions, a rapidly shifting regulatory environment and new opportunities. Anything but boring, there is something for everyone.
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WCI’s Infrastructure Week 2019 Briefing
The time to act is now.As Infrastructure Week in mid-May kicked off, the Waterways Council, Inc. held its annual press briefing on the critical issues facing the nation’s inland waterways. WCI President CEO Mike Toohey began by saying simply…
Maritime Logistics News
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Coastal Passenger Ferry for China
The Zhoushan Islands are just off shore of east China's Zhejiang province, and lie…
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BIMCO: Fleet Growth, Ship Size Up
Global growth in container volumes has picked up slightly in the second quarter of the year…
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Costa Smeralda to be Delivered a Month Late
Citing technical complexities, Meyer Turku is delaying the delivery of the cruise…
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LPG Tanks Arrive at Port of Richards Bay
Transnet National Ports Authority’s (TNPA) Port of Richards Bay welcomed the arrival…
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Wärtsilä Simulators for New Portuguese Facility
Wärtsilä has supplied simulators aimed to provide realistic hands-on training at…
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Metal Shark Delivers Foil-assisted Catamaran
Shipbuilder Metal Shark said it has delivered a new excursion vessel to Southwest…
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UK Invests in ‘Maritime and Me’ Diversity Program
UK Maritime Minister Nusrat Ghani has pledged £730,000 (about $910,000) in Government…
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Offshore Wind Conference Set for SUNY Maritime
The Center of Excellence for Offshore Renewable Energy at the State University of…
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Australia Bans Two Bulkers Over Mariner Pay Spat
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has banned two foreign-flagged bulk…
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Tsuneishi Philippines Delivers First Boxship
Tsuneishi Shipbuilding has delivered its first containership newbuilding from its yard in the Cebu…
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Long Beach Port Cargo Volumes Dip in August
The Port of Long Beach last month had the fifth-busiest August in its 108-year history.
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Ports Asks EU to Focus on Port Economy
Antwerp and Rotterdam Port Authorities asked new European Commission (EC) and Parliament…
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Oakland Port Opens Peak Season
The container ship facility in the San Francisco Bay Port of Oakland said that peak…
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Port Napie Orders Damen Tug
Napier Port, the third largest port on New Zealand’s North Island, has placed an…
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Fire Reported on Tanker at Sture Terminal
A fire onboard an oil tanker at Norway's Sture crude export terminal has been put out…
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