Alabama

Austal USA christens latest LCS in Mobile

An audience of over 1,000 dignitaries, community leaders, and Austal USA employees celebrated the christening of the future Mobile (LCS 26) last week at Austal’s ship manufacturing facility in Mobile, Ala. It is the third U.S. Navy ship christened at the shipyard in 2019 and the fifth ship named after the city. Mobile is the 13th of 19 small surface combatants Austal USA has under contract with the Navy.

“It is such an honor for a future Littoral Combat Ship to be named after the city of...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/austal-usa-christens-latest-lcs-in-mobile/

USCG cautions public against illegal charters

Two pontoon boats moored to a pier at Haulover Inlet, Florida, Mar. 31, 2019. The Coast Guard boarded the two boats and terminated both voyages as illegal charters. Coast Guard Photo

The Coast Guard is reminding the public that unlicensed vessel charters are both illegal and unsafe to consumers.

Hiring an unlicensed charter is dangerous because the charter may not have the proper emergency safety gear, navigation and communication gear, and may not have undergone the proper license exams and inspections which are put in place to ensure passenger and crew safety.

“Illegal charter operations create a great safety risk to passengers and will not be tolerated,” Capt. Ladonn...

https://www.workboat.com/news/government/uscg-cautions-public-against-illegal-charters/

How Widened Mobile Ship Channel Will Allow More and Bigger Ships?

According to Alabama News, Part of its new 10-cent gas tax increase will go toward the $400 million widening and deepening of the Mobile ship channel, something coastal lawmakers called “a good deal.”

Ship channel to be deepened

The current plan will see the ship channel deepened in most places to 50-feet, or deep enough to accommodate a new class of containership, the New Panamax class, according to Judith Adams with the Alabama State Port Authority.

The Port of Mobile can currently fit Post...

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