The U.S. Coast Guard will receive $675 million to fund construction of the nation’s first polar security cutter, or heavy icebreaker, an appropriation that proponents say is long overdue as the only operational ship of its type in the U.S. fleet continues to deteriorate.
For the second year in a row, the federal budget enacted by Congress included $300 million for the Maritime Administration (MarAd) to commission a new training vessel, this one to replace the aging T/S Kennedy at Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
Maritime industry leaders are pleased with an executive order signed in March by President Trump that is designed to make it easier for veterans to transition from the U.S. military to the merchant marine.
The U.S. Coast Guard hopes levying a record $80,000 fine against a Lake Michigan offender in February sends a strong message to anyone else illegally using recreational boats for commercial passenger service.
The Canadian Coast Guard is assessing whether stabilizers should be integrated into the service’s nine Hero-class midshore patrol vessels, constructed by Irving Shipbuilding from 2011 to 2014.
Matson’s Daniel K. Inouye was approaching a dogleg turn in Honolulu Harbor when Capt. Cameron Andrews swung the Foss tugboat Pi’ilani from the containership’s transom to the starboard quarter.
Building ships with liquefied natural gas (LNG) propulsion comes with numerous challenges. Bunkering them for the first time probably isn’t the first issue that comes to mind.
Bucking a brisk March wind, Enhydra, the hybrid-propelled pride of San Francisco’s Red and White Fleet, made for the Golden Gate Bridge.
The captain of a Mississippi River fleet boat is missing and presumed dead after the vessel capsized and sank near the Myrtle Grove fleeting area in Louisiana.
A mariner aboard a dredge tender died when the vessel capsized off the coast of Charleston, S.C., while under tow.
Federal investigators have determined a fleet boat that flooded and sank near Dyersburg, Tenn., lost “watertight integrity,” most likely from inadequate maintenance.
A German-flagged cargo ship leaked up to 100,000 gallons of heavy bunker fuel during a voyage up the East Coast, reportedly after a shipping container fell overboard and damaged the vessel’s hull.
An unmanned crane barge that broke free and struck high-voltage power lines over a Louisiana canal was not effectively moored, federal investigators have determined.
A rescue boat from BC Ferries’ Spirit of Vancouver Island slipped off a davit hook due to a damaged spring-loaded safety latch, causing an “uncontrolled fall” into the water more than 50 feet below, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) said in an investigative report.
Bulk carrier strikes another off Vancouver, damaging both ships A bulk carrier struck another bulker that was anchored in Vancouver Harbor shortly after midnight on March 17, and Canadian authorities are trying to determine the cause. The 751-foot Caravos Harmony…
Popular culture has been inundated with stories about autonomous or semi-autonomous cars.
For the past 15 years or so, the United States has aggressively prosecuted foreign vessels, their owners and operators, and their crews for failing to comply with U.S. regulations for the control of oil discharges.
For almost 50 years, beginning in the late 1930s, our government actually helped get U.S.-flag merchant ships built, utilizing the Construction Differential Subsidy (CDS) program.
