Connecticut

Connecticut investing $31M in truck parking

The Connecticut Department of Transportation is launching a $31 million project to increase truck parking statewide.

The department will expand truck parking at five locations across the state. The lack of truck parking has been deemed a “national safety concern” by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

The project’s first phase is underway at the Middletown rest area on Interstate 91 northbound. It will have an additional 11 parking spaces, the department said in an announcement about...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/connecticut-investing-31m-in-truck-parking

Florida yard floats out East Coast operator’s newest ferry

Long Island, a new ferry built by the Eastern Shipbuilding Group for the Bridgeport and Port Jefferson Steamboat Company, being launched into the water, May 3, 2024

The Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG) of Panama City, Florida, has launched a new Ro-Pax ferry ordered by the Bridgeport and Port Jefferson Steamboat Company, a transport company that serves routes between Connecticut and New York. Upon completion, Long Island will measure 302 feet (92 metres) long...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/passenger-vessel-world/ro-pax/florida-yard-floats-out-east-coast-operators-newest-ferry/

Ørsted submits proposal for new Starboard Wind offshore wind farm

Ørsted has submitted a proposal for a new 1,184 MW offshore wind farm, called Starboard Wind, to Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. It would use the New London State Pier for staging and assembly and power more than 600,000 homes in the state.

Ørsted says the Starboard Wind project would deliver offshore wind power to Connecticut at “stable and predictable pricing for decades.”The project would bring nearly $420 million of direct investment and expenditure to...

https://www.marinelog.com/offshore/offshore-wind/orsted-submits-proposal-for-new-starboard-wind-offshore-wind-farm/

US Coast Guard commissions fast response cutter Melvin Bell

The US Coast Guard commissioned its newest Sentinel-class fast response cutter (FRC) into service in a ceremony in New London, Connecticut, on Thursday, March 28. Built by Bollinger Shipyards of Louisiana, USCGC Melvin Bell honours the late Master Chief Petty Officer Melvin Kealoha Bell, a native...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/maritime-security-world/non-naval/us-coast-guard-commissions-fast-response-cutter-melvin-bell/

US Navy christens attack submarine Idaho

The US Navy and General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB) formally named the future nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Idaho in a ceremony at GDEB’s facilities in Groton, Connecticut, on Saturday, March 16. The submarine will be the 26th in the Virginia-class as well as the fifth US Navy ship to be...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/maritime-security-world/naval/submersibles-naval/us-navy-christens-attack-submarine-idaho/

Maritime Security Vessel News Roundup | December 22 – Egyptian Navy frigate, US lake patrol boat and more

The Egyptian Navy acquires a new warship and a patrol workboat is handed over to a lake protection agency on the US East Coast. Construction is meanwhile underway on future surface combatants for the US and Spanish navies. Egyptian Navy takes delivery of third Al-Aziz-class frigate German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) has delivered the […]

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Maritime Security Vessel News Roundup | October 19 – New US Navy submarine, Russian border guard boat sea trials and more

The US Navy commissions a new submarine into service as the US Coast Guard and the Royal Australian Navy take delivery of new patrol vessels and a Russian border guard boat completes another series of sea trials. US Navy commissions attack submarine Hyman G. Rickover The US Navy commissioned the Virginia-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarine […]

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VESSEL REVIEW | X107T – ThayerMahan USV for maritime domain awareness missions

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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https://www.bairdmaritime.com/commercial-mariner/marine-projects/vessel-review-x107t-thayermahan-usv-for-maritime-domain-awareness-missions/

Tug and Salvage Vessel News Roundup | July 4 – US newbuilding orders, Russian response tug launch and Dutch-designed electric workboat range

Two US operators place orders for towing and salvage vessels and a shipyard in Russia floats out a new emergency response tug slated for the country’s marine rescue ser ..

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