This Day in Naval History- Jan. 19
1840 - LT Charles Wilkes, USN is first American to discover Antarctic coast (Source: Navy News Service)
Coast Guard Responds to NY Plane Crash
The Coast Guard launched a multi-asset response on Jan. 15 when a passenger plane plunged into the Hudson River here. Upon initial notification, Coast Guard Sector…
Fuel Spill Contained After Tugboat Sinks
A diesel spill was reported and contained after an out-of-service tugboat sank at the 38th Street pier in Brooklyn, N.Y., the week of January 15. No one was onboard the vessel at the time it sank.
New Navy Contracts
General Dynamics, Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $34,892,258 cost plus incentive fee contract for the preparation and accomplishment of the…
Navy Announces Decision on Mayport Homebasing
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installations and Environment, B.J. Penn, signed a record of decision for the Mayport Homeporting Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on Jan. 14.
James River Ship Sold For Recycling
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration has sold a ship for recycling to Bay Bridge Enterprises of Chesapeake, Va. The Milwaukee, an AOR2…
Trinity Yachts Delivers First of Two Patrol Craft
Trinity Yachts, L.L.C., through its wholly owned subsidiary, Trinity Offshore, L.L.C., has delivered the first of two aluminum 82 ft. patrol craft it is building in New Orleans under a sub-contract to United States Marine, Inc., (U.S.M.I.) of Gulfport. The craft design is similar to those built for United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in the late 1990’s by the Trinity Marine Group. These vessels are still in service today. The first hull was recently delivered to U.S.M.I.
Port & Terminal Technology USA 2009
Following its European show over the last 5 years, Millennium Conferences International brings the Port & Terminal Technology Conference to the USA for the first time on April 7 and 8 in Houston.
2009 Toughest Test for Container Industry
Drewry Shipping Consultants, in its latest Container Forecast, concluded that 2009 will be the toughest test yet for the Container industry and further casualties are a real possibility.
RAstar 3900 Svitzer Kilroom Delivered
The third in a series of six high-performance Terminal Escort tugs, the Svitzer Kilroom entered service at the Dragon LNG terminal in Milford Haven, U.K. at the end of December, 2008. The Svitzer Kilroom is the largest and most powerful of the RAstar series of tugs being built for this major terminal operation, all to the unique new RAstar designs developed by Robert Allan Ltd., Naval Architects of Vancouver, B.C.
StatoilHydro Maintains Growth Ambition
StatoilHydro (OSE: STL, NYSE: STO) is continuing its strategy for growth and upholding its ambition to increase the equity production of oil and gas up to 2012, despite great uncertainty in the global economy and the oil market. At the group’s Strategy Update in London today, 14 January, chief executive Helge Lund and chief financial officer Eldar Sætre are presented new prognoses for the group’s oil and gas production, investments and exploration activity in 2009.
Deterring Piracy at Sea
Contrary to the romanticized portrayal of pirates that have populated folk tales and captured youngsters' imaginations, modern-day pirates pose a clear and present threat to lives, commerce and the environment as they lurk over shipping lanes attacking ships and crew without regard for nationality or cargo. Piracy in the Gulf of Aden not only poses a threat to global commerce, but also threatens aid…
This Day in Naval History – Jan. 16
1930 - USS Lexington provides power to Tacoma, WA, when floods knocked out city power plants 1991 - Operation Desert Storm, liberation of Kuwait from Iraq, begins (Source: Navy News Service)
Electric Shipping Study, Pose2idon
BMT Defence Services Limited, a subsidiary of BMT Group, is heading a consortium of 30 companies to investigate the commercially effective application of electric…
GE LM2500 Digital Fuel Control Retrofit Kits for Navy
GE Marine reports that the United States Navy has retrofitted nearly 50 LM2500 marine aeroderivative gas turbines with GE’s Digital Fuel Control (DFC) kits. The LM2500s power the U.S. Navy’s CG-47 Ticonderoga class cruisers and DDG-51 Arleigh Burke class destroyers. The U.S. Navy incorporated the DFC retrofit into a concurrent ship system modernization program. Since the first digital fuel controls were installed, the U.S.
AMSC, Northrop Grumman Superconductor
American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC), an energy technologies company, and Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced the successful completion…
ABB Wins Orders Worth $30m
ABB, a power and automation technology group, has won orders worth $30m for electric propulsion, power generation and power distribution systems that maximize the…
ROVsim Pro Chosen By New ROV Training Facility
Marine Simulation LLC recently teamed with Cabaco Marine Pte Ltd to sell two ROVsim Pro training systems to Seahorse Services Co. Ltd. to be used in their new ROV pilot training facility in Vung Tao, Vietnam. ROVsim Pro is a physics accurate, visually realistic and highly configurable Remotely Operated (submerged) Vehicle (ROV) simulator intended for undersea and marine professionals. By implementing the very latest technologies for real-time 3D visualization…
Hanwha Asked to Resubmit Plans for Daewoo
According to a Jan. 13 report from Reuters, Korea Development Bank, in talks to sell Daewoo Shipbuilding to Hanwha Group, asked Hanwha to rework its financing plan…
Oil Find Close to Norne
An oil discovery just north of the Norne field in the Norwegian Sea will be considered for development with the Norne production and storage ship. A well on the North Sea Verona prospect is dry. Drilling of an exploration well on the Dompap prospect off the coast of Nordland county has been completed after proving oil. A sidetrack drilled to establish the oil/water contact in this discovery is also in the process of completion.
