Offshore is one of the industries with the biggest risk profiles in the world. When bad things happen in offshore, people die, often there are explosions and sinkings, fires and oil spills, and the environment can be badly polluted, killing seabirds, fish, dolphins and coral, and inflicting...
The city government of Unalaska in Alaska and the US Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Alaska District have entered into an agreement stipulating channel improvement works. The agreement requires both parties to provide a 600-by-600-foot (182-by-182-metre) dredged channel with a depth of minus 58...
Led by Louisiana General Attorney General Liz Murrill, the attorneys general of 16 states have filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Louisiana challenging the pause on pending approvals of LNG export projects announced by the Biden administration in January.
Attorney General Murrill calls that move an “unlawful decision to ban new liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.”
The State of Louisiana is joined in the suit by the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida,...
https://www.marinelog.com/news/16-states-file-suit-challenging-pause-on-lng-export-permits/
The Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) of Seattle, Washington, has entered into a strategic partnership with Anchorage, Alaska-based naval architecture and marine engineering firm Coastwise Corporation wherein the latter will become a new division under EBDG. Coastwise Corporation has been rebranded as Coastwise Engineering. This division will continue to provide superior naval architecture services to […]
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The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined that flooding into the lazarette, a compartment below the main deck, or port void (empty) space likely caused the purse seining vessel Hotspur to lose stability, capsize, and sink near Nunez Rocks, Alaska, on August 2, 2022. On the...
U.S.-based tanker owner and operator Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG) has inked an engine upgrade […]
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The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has confirmed the award of grants totalling US$220.2 million from the government’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to modernise the nation’s ferry systems. The program focuses in part on expanding ferry service in rural communities, helping communities acquire modern ferry boats (including electric boats), and upgrading shore infrastructure […]
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Juneau, Alaska-based Allen Marine Tours has expanded its fleet of sightseeing vessels with the recent acquisition of a newbuild whale-watching boat. The custom-built, high tunnel catamaran vessel Eagle will be operated out of Sitka. The all-aluminium boat measures 48 by 18 feet (14.6 by 5.4 metres)...
Crowley has appointed Kollin Fencil as senior vice president and general manager to lead its Crowley Fuels business unit, which serves energy logistics needs throughout Alaska with a network land transportation and marine services and facilities.
Fencil will join Crowley after serving as senior vice president, operations, of global energy company Santos Ltd. in Alaska, where he led all operations functions, including driving the implementation of its strategic plan for the business unit. He...
https://www.marinelog.com/news/kollin-fencil-to-lead-crowley-fuels/
Hard on the heels of handing over the research vessel Kaiao to the Pacific Whale Foundation in Hawaii, Port Angeles, Wash., based BRIX Marine recently delivered the whale watching boat Eagle to Allen Marine Whale Watching Tours in Alaska. While the 30-foot Kaiao is part of the BRIX Marine LabCat portfolio., the 48 foot long by 18 foot beam, 4818-HTC Eagle is the latest addition to the company’s PaxCat portfolio.
Designed in collaboration with Allen Marine Whale Watching Tours,...
https://www.marinelog.com/passenger/brix-marine-delivers-cutting-edge-whale-watching-boat/