22 Dec

Halter Marine teaming with Gibbs & Cox on Navy’s large unmanned surface vessel

Professional Mariner StaffIndustry News, Shipbuilding
(PASCAGOULA, Miss.) — Halter Marine is teaming with Gibbs & Cox on the U.S. Navy’s contract to perform design studies for the development of the large unmanned surface vessel (LUSV). The LUSV studies contract has an anticipated completion date of August 2021 with an option for additional studies, which would extend the forecasted completion date to May 2022. Halter Marine…
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NASSCO delivers second Kanaloa-class con-ro to Matson
18 Dec

NASSCO delivers second Kanaloa-class con-ro to Matson

Professional Mariner StaffMaritime News, Shipbuilding
(HONOLULU) — Matson on Dec. 18 took delivery of Matsonia, the second of two new Kanaloa-class combination container/roll-on, roll-off (con-ro) ships built by General Dynamics NASSCO. The vessels are the largest of their kind ever built in the United States. They join two new containerships, Daniel K. Inouye and Kaimana Hila, themselves the largest of their kind in the U.S.…
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Great Lakes Towing christens two tugs in virtual ceremony
18 Dec

Great Lakes Towing christens two tugs in virtual ceremony

Professional Mariner StaffShipbuilding, Tugboats & Towing
(CLEVELAND) — On Dec. 16, The Great Lakes Towing Company and Great Lakes Shipyard’s employees joined at the company’s Cleveland facilities to celebrate the christening of the new tugs Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Customers, vendors, community, friends, family and the public were invited to join virtually for the live streamed event. “Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it is remarkable that the towing…
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Keppel lays keel for Jones Act wind turbine installation vessel
17 Dec

Keppel lays keel for Jones Act wind turbine installation vessel

Professional Mariner StaffMaritime News, Shipbuilding
(RICHMOND, Va.) — Dominion Energy announced Wednesday it has reached a major milestone – the keel laying – in the construction of the first Jones Act-compliant offshore wind turbine installation vessel, currently being constructed by Keppel AmFELS at its Brownsville, Texas, shipyard. With several gigawatts of offshore wind capacity to be installed along the U.S. East Coast in the next…
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Philly Shipyard cuts steel for nation’s new class of training ships
15 Dec

Philly Shipyard cuts steel for nation’s new class of training ships

Professional Mariner StaffMaritime News, Shipbuilding
(PHILADELPHIA) — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MarAd) on Tuesday launched a new era in maritime education with the cutting of steel for the first national security multi-mission vessel (NSMV) at Philly Shipyard. This is the initial major construction milestone for the first purpose-built, state-of-the-art training vessel for America’s state maritime academies. In addition to providing world-class training…
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Master Marine delivers second of four pushboats to Plimsoll Marine
11 Dec

Master Marine delivers second of four pushboats to Plimsoll Marine

Professional Mariner StaffShipbuilding, Tugboats & Towing
(LAPLACE, La.) — Master Marine Inc. (MMI) has delivered the 67-by-28-foot Grain Express to Plimsoll Marine. Grain Express is the second of four pushboats that MMI is scheduled to deliver to Plimsoll Marine. These four advanced vessels were designed by Entech Designs LLC and are fully compliant with all U.S. Coast Guard regulatory requirements. The pushboat is powered by two…
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Robert Allan Ltd. launches RApport 1900-SX harbor tug
07 Dec

Robert Allan Ltd. launches RApport 1900-SX harbor tug

Professional Mariner StaffShipbuilding, Tugboats & Towing
(VANCOUVER, British Columbia) — Designed exclusively for Sanmar Shipyards, the Robert Allan Ltd. RApport 1900-SX harbor tug replaces the Sanmar Series which currently consists of 31 units built and delivered since 1995. The first six vessels of the new design have been completed and deployed to the fleets of Sanmar and Marintug in the Gulf of Izmit and Antalya Port…
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Great Lakes Dredge to advance US offshore wind with vessel for subsea rock installation
03 Dec

Great Lakes Dredge to advance US offshore wind with vessel for subsea rock installation

Professional Mariner StaffMaritime News, Shipbuilding
(HOUSTON) — Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp. (GLDD) is moving forward with the design and development of the first U.S.-flagged, Jones Act-compliant inclined fallpipe vessel for subsea rock installation. The vessel represents a critical advancement in building the future of the new U.S. offshore wind industry, including establishing a U.S.-based rock supply chain network spanning Eastern Seaboard states with…
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