The US government, through the International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), has committed more than US$553 million to support the development of a deepwater shipping container terminal in the Port of Colombo in Sri Lanka. The financing in the form of private sector loans is being provided...
The Virgin Islands Port Authority (VIPA) has received approval from its Board of Governors to progress on the expansion of its cruise ports on St Croix and St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands. In St Croix, the Royal Caribbean Group (RCG) and VIPA are collaborating to allow larger ships to visit...
The University of Hawai’i at Manoa has taken delivery of a new multi-purpose catamaran research vessel. The vessel is named Imua after the translation of the phrase “to move forward” in the Hawaiian language. The 68.5- by 25-foot (20.8- by 7.62-metre) vessel utilises a semi-displacement aluminium...
Alabama-based Silver Ships recently delivered a new custom-built aluminium workboat to the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Named Miss Agnes, the newbuild honours the late Agnes Goodman Zaiontz, who was a member of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority since its opening in 1985....
The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) recently took delivery of a new river maintenance workboat from Alabama-based boatbuilder Silver Ships. Dashields is the second in a series of three landing craft workboats built by Silver Ships for the USACE Pittsburgh District, the first being the 2022-built Allegheny River. The vessels will support the Pittsburgh […]
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Two Chinese yards have completed deliveries of an offshore installation ship and a large river and coastal dredger while US and Russian operators have placed orders for n ..
The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has begun a maintenance dredging campaign on the Shrewsbury and Navesink Rivers in New Jersey. The USACE will dredge both the entra ..
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UK-based Sea-Kit International, a company specialising in designing and building uncrewed vessels, has delivered an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) to Connecticut-based au ..
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Massachusetts-based unmanned technology company SeaTrac Systems has supplied one of its unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to Princeton University for use by geosciences ex ..
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A Russian operator takes delivery of a river and port survey vessel while a Norwegian university is set to acquire a compact workboat. A Chinese yard launches an ocean sc ..