STX Builds First Licensee-Built L21/31
Representatives from STX and MAN B&W have presented the first L21/31 built in Korea. The special presentation was attended by a large audience, consisting of shipbuilders…
GE US Equipment Financing Appoints New Marine Sales Leader
GE US Equipment Financing has appointed Steve Isaacson as National Sales Leader. Isaacson is a veteran of the commercial marine finance industry, joining GE in 2001…
Coast Guard Investigates Grounded Fishing Vessel
Coast Guard crews from Air Station Sitka and Marine Safety Detachment Sitka investigate the fishing vessel El Cazador that ran aground Monday afternoon near Dry Bay 30 miles southeast of Yakutat.
Unidyne Wins $23M Navy Deal
Technology Center for Cable and Connectors (TC3) facility. services. Work will be performed in Newport, R.I. by August 2008. the current fiscal year. with three offers received.
Marinette Marine Wins $40M Contract
Training Group Pacific; and Blount Island Command, Jacksonville, Fla. be used to offload vehicles and cargo containers from ships at anchor. cumulative value of this contract to $404,815,320.
CP Ships Commits to Newbuild Charters
CP Ships Limited today announced its agreement to the long-term charter of nine 4250 teu newly built containerships from Seaspan Container Lines for a term of up to ten years.
Coast Guard Medevac Fisherman from Vessel
Cocadrie, LA. The Coast Guard was notified at 5 a.m. medical attention. swimmer and litter to the shrimp boat. the helicopter for transfer to a local hospital. transport…
Seaspan Container Lines Expands
Seaspan Container Lines has placed an order for nine new 4,250 TEU container ships. The new ships will be chartered to the Canadian shipping company, CP Ships. “It…
Coast Guard Investigating Cause of Barge Sinking on Lake Michigan
The Coast Guard is in investigating what may have caused a grain barge to sink approximately four miles off the shores of Waukegan earlier today. A team from U.S.
Virginia, the Nation's Most Advanced Submarine, to Be Christened Saturday
General Dynamics Electric Boat will christen the Virginia (SSN-774), the U.S. Navy's newest and most advanced nuclear attack submarine, at a ceremony at its shipyard here Saturday, Aug. 16, at 11 a.m.
Technip USA Announces Contract Award for the Freeport LNG Terminal
Freeport LNG Development, L.P. and Technip USA Corporation, a subsidiary of Technip have signed a contract for the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) leading to…
GE Gas Turbines Power Three New Cruise Ships
GE announced that three new cruise ships recently went into service powered by GE LM aeroderivative gas turbines. The three ships -- Serenade of the Seas, Island…
Rolls-Royce Acquires VT Controls
Rolls-Royce has acquired marine electrical systems company VT Controls Ltd for £11 million, continuing its growth strategy in the marine market. VT Controls Ltd…
Crowley Makes First Major Livestock Shipments to Cuba in 40 Years
Over the past three weeks Crowley Liner Services has transported more than 400 head of cattle, plus sheep and bison, from the United States to Havana, Cuba - the…
CAE Awarded U.S. Navy Contracts
CAE has been selected to supply electric plant control systems for the largest and most advanced warship in naval history, the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W.
Griffin Marine Travel and Instone form Griffin Americas
Griffin Marine Travel and Instone International Americas announced that their U.S. operations will merge, creating the largest competitive provider of crew travel management services in North America.
Southco Appoints Hottinger to Sales Director
Southco, a supplier of marine access hardware, has recently promoted Mike Hottinger to Marine Sales Director of North America. Mike has been with Southco for 17…
Triton XL38 ROV System Mobilizes in the GOM
Sonsub announced the mobilization of the Triton XL38 work class ROV system in the GOM. The Triton XL38, owned by Dominion Diving Limited in Halifax, Canada, has…
U.S. Suspends Immediate and Continuous Transit Programs
Members are advised that the US Department of Homeland Security and the US Department of State issued separate, but coordinated, rules suspending the US Immediate and Continuous Transit Programmes.
ChevronTexaco Signs MOU to Bring LNG to West Coast
ChevronTexaco Corp. today announced than an affiliate had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Gorgon Joint Venture in Australia for the supply of…
