Boluda Towage has acquired Les Abeilles International, a provider of emergency response services primarily off the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of France. The acquired company will now operate at Boluda Towage France. Its six French-flagged vessels will be added to the 40 vessels that Boluda...
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VESSEL REVIEW | Havsnurp – Versatile herring trawler delivered to Norwegian pelagic fishing company
Norwegian family-owned pelagic fishing company Havsnurp has expanded its fleet with the recent acquisition of a new trawler built by Karstensens Skibsværft of Denmark. The third vessel to be acquired by the company has also been named Havsnurp, and it replaces a similarly named Karstensens-built...
VESSEL REVIEW | Grain de Sail II – French cargo sailship built for trans-Atlantic crossings
Grain de Sail has expanded its fleet of sailing cargo ships with the recent acquisition of a new vessel delivered by local shipyard Piriou. Grain de Sail II was built at Piriou’s Vietnam facilities to a design by French naval architecture firm L20Naval. “It is a pure schooner-type sailing vessel...
New York State Canal System to receive US$50 million in maintenance funding
A capital investment totalling US$50 million will be made into the New York State Canal system as part of the FY 2025 Enacted Budget, New York Governor Kathy Hochul confirmed recently. The funding will ensure that New York’s 524-mile (843-kilometre) Erie Canal will remain safe and operable for...
Understanding of methane seep formation and prevalence on US Atlantic margin advanced by new NOAA study
A major new study on the distribution and origin of methane seeps on the US Atlantic margin — the seafloor between the coast and the deep ocean — expands the inventory of methane seeps (also called cold seeps) between the South Atlantic Bight and Georges Bank and explores the processes that...
East Coast fishermen file lawsuit against US National Marine Fisheries Service
In January, three New Jersey commercial fishermen who own and operate vessels in the herring fishery had a hearing before the US Supreme Court. Their lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service challenges a 2020 federal rule requiring commercial fishing boat captains to pay for monitors...
VESSEL REVIEW | Baie des Chaleurs – Canadian Coast Guard rescue boat built for Atlantic sailing conditions
The Canadian Coast Guard has taken delivery of a new search and rescue (SAR) boat built by shipyard Chantier Naval Forillon based in Quebec. CCGS Baie des Chaleurs is named after Chaleurs Bay, the portion of the Gulf of St Lawrence that sits between Quebec and New Brunswick. The newbuild belongs to...
COLUMN | Creative worry and how to address it [Tug Times]
A wise old bird who was given the unenviable task of teaching me to drive a supply boat told me early in the process that I should never take the boat into any situation unless I could see at least two ways to get out of it again when things went wrong. It was excellent […]
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COLUMN | Is it them, again? Argentina and Nigeria, and Vietnam’s got a maritime video star! [Offshore Accounts]
Rarely in life do you get a second chance. But since we are almost Back to December, it is time to revisit that vintage Taylor Swift classic, where the singer describes how she messed up a relationship and begs for another chance. With that attitude, she could stand for president of Argentina and...
VESSEL REVIEW | Atlantic Enterprise – Large shrimp and halibut factory trawler for Ocean Prawns’ Canada operations
Clearwater Ocean Prawns Venture (COPV), a joint venture formed by Danish fishing company Ocean Prawns and Canada’s Clearwater Seafoods, has expanded its fleet with the recent acquisition of a new deep-sea-capable factory trawler designed by Norwegian naval architecture firm Skipsteknisk. The DNV-classed, Polar Coded trawler Atlantic Enterprise measures 83.2 by 18 metres and is equipped […]
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