Category: News
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Crystal orders third new cruise ship at Fincantieri
Crystal orders third new cruise ship at Fincantieri Fincantieri reports that luxury cruise brand Crystal has finalized an order for a third 690 passenger high end cruise ship, exercising an option under the two ship order it placed back in June (see earlier story). The shipbuilder says that the value of the agreement, subject to…
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Birdon America selects Schottel solutions for WCC program
Birdon America selects Schottel solutions for WCC program Spay, Germany-headquartered propulsion specialist Schottel has been chosen by Birdon America to supply key components for the up to 27 U.S. Coast Guard Waterways Commerce Cutters (WCC) for which it is prime contractor. The two Birdon-designed variants of the cutters will be built at its recently acquired…
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NAWE names Carl Bentzel its next president
NAWE names Carl Bentzel its next president The board of the National Association of Waterfront Employers (NAWE) says that the Honorable Carl Bentzel has been elected to serve as the association’s new president, effective December 16, 2024. As part of this role, he will also serve as the executive director of the National Maritime Safety…
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Maersk Tankers places world’s largest yet suction sail order
Maersk Tankers places world’s largest yet suction sail order In what will be the world’s largest deployment of suction sales to date, Maersk Tankers is to fit bound4blue eSAILs on five of its MR vessels, Each of the five tankers will be fitted with four 26-meter eSAILs, bringing Barcelona-headquartered bound4blue its largest wind assisted propulsion…
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SouthCoast Wind on track for final approval
SouthCoast Wind on track for final approval The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has announced the availability of the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed SouthCoast Wind project. The lease area covers approximately 127,388 acres and is about 26 nautical miles south of Martha’s Vineyard and 20 nautical miles south of Nantucket,…
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Port of Montreal: Lockout starts
Port of Montreal: Lockout starts When Port of Montreal longshore workers voted against accepting “the last and final offer” presented by employers this past Thursday, the Maritime Employers Association (MEA), as it had said it would, imposed a lockout as of 9.00 p.m. Sunday. And this morning, on the first day of the lockout, the…
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SF Bay Ferry wins $55.3M Clean Ports Program grant
SF Bay Ferry wins $55.3M Clean Ports Program grant A $55,386,000 grant to the Port of San Francisco included in the $3 billion of Clean Ports Program grants announced last month will be used by San Francisco Bay Ferry to create the first zero-emission, fast-ferry network in the U.S. “This is a transformative project for…
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Wallenius Wilhelmsen goes more and bigger on giant Shapers
Wallenius Wilhelmsen goes more and bigger on giant Shapers The International Energy Agency is predicting that global EV sales will grow twelve-fold by 2035 under stated policies and car carrier operators have been ordering more and ever larger ships in response. That trend saw Wallenius Wilhelmsen report today that it has exercised options for two…
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NorthStar and MARS team to dismantle defueled ex-Enterprise in Mobile
NorthStar and MARS team to dismantle defueled ex-Enterprise in Mobile Two companies have teamed up to compete for a Navy contract to dismantle the former USS Enterprise (now known as the ex-Enterprise), the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. NorthStar Maritime Dismantlement Services, LLC, a subsidiary of NorthStar Group Services, Inc. (NorthStar) and Modern American Recycling…