Maritime Institute inks Port of Everett training facility deal

Maritime Institute inks Port of Everett training facility deal

  The San Diego, Ca.-based Maritime Institute has signed a 10-year lease to locate its newest mariner training facility at the Port of Everett’s Waterfront Place.  The new satellite at the Port of Everett will be the company’s first in Washington state. It currently hosts main campuses in Norfolk, Va. and San Diego, Ca., plus satellite facilities in Alameda, Ca.…
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Maritime Partners enters the Jones Act market

Maritime Partners enters the Jones Act market

Maritime Partners enters the Jones Act market  Louisiana-based Maritime Partners LLC,  the largest lessor of U.S. inland waterways towboats, has inked an agreement to acquire American Tanker Holding Company (ATHC), a subsidiary of Oslo, Norway-headquartered AMSC for a reported enterprise value of $747 million. ATHC, formerly known as American Shipping Co., owns nine handysize products tankers and one smaller handysize…
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New Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Seaway economic impact study

New Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Seaway economic impact study

The 2023 study Economic Impacts of Maritime Shipping in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Region provides the navigation community, transportation planners, government policy makers, and the general public with a realistic assessment of the contributions made by the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region to the state, provincial, regional, and national economies.  Compiled by industry analyst Martin Associates of Lancaster, Pa., the study took eight…
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The IMO needs to step-up

Recently, I was looking at my latest copy of the Seafarers Log, the official publication of the Seafarers International Union.  On the cover there is a picture of the crew of the tanker OSG Nikiski after they had successfully saved the lives of two people whose boat had lost power and steering over 200 miles from shore in the middle…
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American Leader

American Leader

A few years before the U.S. entry into World War II, the U.S. Maritime Commission selected a design for a new freighter that had the size, capacity, and speed readily adaptable to the most varied types of cargo “from refrigerated freight and banjos to gasoline and steel sheets,” according to one Commission document.  Known as the C-2 class, the type…
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