The U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) today announced the availability of $25 million in funding for the America’s Marine Highway Program (AMHP), which supports the development and expanded use of America’s navigable waterways.
These new resources represent the largest single appropriation of funding ever provided to the AMHP.
“America’s waterways are a vital means for getting goods onto our shelves and into our homes,” said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “Thanks to these...
McCarthy Building Companies has started work on Phase 2 of the Main Street Terminal 1 project at the Port of Beaumont in Texas.
This follows approval by the port’s Board of Commissioners of McCarthy’s $57.3 million construction bid for the project, which is aimed at increasing the port’s general cargo handling capacity by more than 15%.
The project includes demolition of a failed dock structure and construction of a new state-of-the-art general cargo dock.
The Main Street Terminal is the main...
Damen Shipyards reports that it has signed a contract with Houston-headquartered Tidewater Inc. (NYSE:TDW) for the supply of two Damen Stan Tugs 2309. The tugs will be built at Albwardy Damen Sharjah and, on delivery in the first quarter of 2023, will both go on charter to a long-standing Tidewater customer.
Damen says the 23-meter Stan Tug 2309 is a compact and versatile harbor and coastal tug which, in its standard format, is equipped for towing, mooring and fire-fighting, with a bollard pull...
https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/coastal/tidewater-orders-tug-duo-at-damen/
“I’m very proud of meeting our target of 100% vaccination of all team members in the third quarter last year,” Lasse Petterson, CEO of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ: GLDD), told financial analysts in a call in this week, adding that “due to our vaccination efforts we have experienced less severe impacts from the virus infections. Throughout [2021] we avoided team members being hospitalized and no team member tested positive for COVID-19 from September through early December.”
The...
https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/dredging/great-lakes-dredge-ceo-were-100-vaxxed/
A tugboat on order at Cheoy Lee Shipyards in Hong Kong for PSA Marine Peru will be equipped with Schottel RudderPropellers featuring the patented Sydrive-M technology.
Sydrive-M connects a vessel’s port and starboard mounted azimuth thrusters, allowing them both to be driven using only one of the main engines. In turn, this leads to reduced operating hours of the main engines, resulting in lower maintenance costs as well as less fuel consumption and lower emissions.
The system needs no additional...
Turkey’s Sanmar Shipyards has signed what’s described as “a sizeable contract” that will see Kongsberg Maritime deliver high-performance, future-proof US205SFP and US255SFP thrusters for installation on new azimuth Stern Drive (ASD) tugboats.
The tugs include a 60 tons bollard pull vessel that will be the first built to the next-generation TRAnsverse Tug design developed by naval architect firm Robert Allan Ltd for Maersk Group’s towage company, Svitzer. The new TRAnsverse 2600 tug can generate...
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) today awarded $12.6 million in grants to nine marine highway projects under the America’s Marine Highway Program (AMHP). The funding will help address supply chain disruptions, enhance the movement of goods along navigable waterways, and expand existing waterborne freight services in Delaware, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
“These investments...
Crowley Maritime’s ship assist and escort services group has agreed to charter its third Tier IV ship assist tug, Athena.
Athena follows sister ships Hercules and Apollo from builder Diversified Marine and owner Brusco Tug & Barge. The 77-foot vessel will feature almost 400 more horsepower than Apollo to deliver a bollard pull up to 96 tons, making it the most powerful tug for its size in the U.S.
Athena meets U.S. EPA Tier IV emissions requirements and will be equipped with remote monitoring for...
https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/coastal/crowley-to-charter-in-powerful-tier-iv-tug/
Damen Shipyards has handed over twin plug-in hybrid firefighting vessels to Flotte Hamburg, a subsidiary of the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) that is tasked with implementing low-emission shipping in the city.
With 315 kWh of battery capacity, the state-of-the-art, plug-in hybrid vessels are capable of extended, fully-electric, emissions-free operations in and around the Port of Hamburg.
One, the Prag, will be operated by Hamburg’s fire service while the other, Dresden, will support the HPA, the...
New York City headquartered McAllister Towing reports that it has signed a contract for the construction of two 93- by 38-foot tier IV, 84-metric-ton bollard pull, tractor tugs with the option for two more. These tugs will further enhance McAllister’s East Coast fleet with the ability to service its customers largest ships and will bring McAllister’s tractor fleet to 39 tugs with a total of over 182,000 horsepower.
The new 6,770-hp tugs will be powered by 3516E Tier 4 Caterpillar engines with...
https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/tugs-barges/mcallister-towing-orders-two-more-tractor-tugs/