Solar Powered Wavepiercer Cat
On March 31, 2010 the roof at the HDW Shipyard in Kiel, Germany slid open to reveal to the daylight the what is claimed to be the world’s largest solar powered vessel, a wavepiercer catamaran named Planet Solar. Appearing small against the back drop of the giant crane hoisting her to the water and the enormous ship building halls she was assembled in, the 101.7 ft long, 52.5 ft wide carbon fiber craft was launched a few hours later into the Kiel fjord…
Ice Study on St. Lawrence Seaway
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC) together with Transport Canada, the Canadian St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation (SLSMC), the U.S.
Hijacked Tanker Arrives off Somalia
The Marshal Islands flagged, crude oil tanker Samho Dream, previously reported hijacked approximately 600 nautical miles off the Somali coast in the early hours…
New Canadian Research Vessel
ABCO Industries Limited recently launched a 60-ft Science Research Vessel for the Canadian Coast Guard. The vessel is currently undergoing trials and will be operating out of St. Andrews, NB on delivery.
Shipbuilding Career Day at Old Dominion
The Shipbuilding Repair and Maritime Career Day Event 2010 was held in the Ted Constant Convocation Center on March 30 in Norfolk, Virginia. About 700 students and 70 teachers from different schools in Hampton Roads area participated in this daylong event. This year the scope of this event was extended to include maritime industry. The event offered an educational and fun-filled environment for middle and high school students to learn about various career options in shipbuilding…
Pipavav Shipyard Fund Raising Plan
According to an April 7 report from Bloomberg, Pipavav Shipyard rose 1.62% to Rs 78.60 at 13:47 IST on BSE after the company's board approved raising up to Rs 178…
Samsung Heavy to Secure 1,000 More Patents
According to an April 7 report from The Dong-A Ilbo, Samsung Heavy Industries said it will acquire about 1,000 more patents by investing $445m in the development…
Teekay Tankers Prices Public Offering
Teekay Tankers Ltd. (NYSE: TNK) announced that it has priced its follow-on public offering of 7,700,000 shares of Class A common stock at $12.25 per share. The offering…
Class Action Lawsuit, Marine Products Price Fixing
Conspiracy involving marine fenders, buoys and pilings provokes action by public and private interests in Texas and Louisiana. Baron & Budd, P.C. attorneys, working…
EMD Celebrates 5 Year Milestone
Over 1,400 employees gathered at EMD’s headquarters and manufacturing campus in La Grange, Ill. to celebrate the company’s fifth year of independence since being…
New Navy Contracts
MAR Inc., Rockville, Md., is being awarded a maximum amount $30,000,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract in support of the Naval…
Revised OCS Oil & Gas Leasing Program
The Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) published a Federal Register notice requesting comments on the Preliminary Revised 2007-2012 Five…
New Anschuetz Autopilot Series NP 5000
The German-based navigation company Raytheon Anschütz announced the upcoming release of their new NautoPilot 5000 adaptive autopilot series, the successor of their NP 2000 autopilot series.
This Day in Coast Guard History – April 8
1909- Race Point, Massachusetts-The sloop Keewaydin IV’s mast was carried away and the sloop anchored 2 miles SW of station, but dragged ashore. Station crew was…
This Day in Naval History – April 8
1925 - First planned night landings on a carrier, USS Langley, by VF-1 1950 - Unarmed Navy patrol aircraft shot down over Baltic Sea by USSR 1951 - 1st of 4 detonations, Operation Greenhouse nuc
Great Eastern Shipping Orders Super Tankers
According to an April 5 report from the Wall Street Journal, Great Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd, India’s biggest private ocean carrier, has ordered three new oil super…
Wärtsilä Repeat Orders from Russia
Wärtsilä has received several orders for propulsion systems from Russian organizations recently. The most recent contracts include repeat orders for integrated electro-propulsion packages for new state-owned Multipurpose Salvage Vessels, which are part of a national program to develop Russia's transportation system over the next five years. Last year, Wärtsilä was contracted to deliver an integrated…
Sustainable Ocean Summit, Belfast, Ireland
Senior representatives from a wide range of industries that use ocean space and resources will come together to discuss sustainability issues that face the ocean…
Deep Blue Marine Purchases Ship
Deep Blue Marine, Inc. announced that the company has purchased a second 88 ton vessel which management plans to relocate to the Caribbean. The ship is the 77-ft sister ship of the Cap'n Tracy. The company will begin retrofit next week to prepare the ship for recovery work. The purchase is made in the effort to keep up with the demands set upon the company as operations expand. www.alldeepblue.com
New Guide for Shipmasters, Int’l Maritime Law
Tara Leiter, an attorney at Blank Rome LLP, collaborated with John A.C. Cartner (United States Coast Guard shipmaster and lawyer) and Richard P. Fiske (retired U.S. naval captain and attorney with John Cartner at Cartner & Fiske LLC) to author the recently released legal treatise The International Law of the Shipmaster. Released in the IMO’s declared Year of the Seafarer, the book is designed to identify…
