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Austal USA Breaks Ground on New Steel Assembly Facility

Artist’s rendering of the planned facility. Austal USA Image

Austal USA broke ground on its planned final steel assembly facility Tuesday, the company announced in a statement.

The building and waterfront support area is expected to include a new assembly building, a new ship lift system and waterfront improvements, the company said in the release. Austal predicts it will be finished by summer 2026.

The 192,000-square-foot, three-bay building expands the shipyard’s ability to build steel ships....

https://news.usni.org/2024/07/09/austal-usa-breaks-ground-on-new-steel-assembly-facility

Zero-Carbon Fuel Shipping Movers Ahead: How They Work

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Current trends in shipyard activities, government, ports, funding, and industry participants, as well as fuel transition as reported by Breakwaveadvisors.

MOU for ammonia as a fuel

Maritime industry giants are ready to explore ammonia as green fuel for U.S. East Coast.

Namely, A.P. Moller – Maersk, American Bureau of Shipping, Fleet Management Limited, Georgia Ports Authority, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping, Savage Services, Sumitomo Corporation, and...

https://mfame.guru/zero-carbon-fuel-shipping-movers-ahead-how-they-work/

Shipbuilders Council announces 2020 shipyard safety awards

The Shipbuilders Council of America (SCA), the national association representing the U.S. shipyard industry, announced its 2020 annual shipyard safety awards. SCA honors shipbuilding and repair organizations with the “Excellence in Safety” award and “Improvement in Safety” award each year for enhancement of operations and promotion of safety and accident prevention.

Over the past several years, the industry has seen the total recordable incident rate steadily decline, with the most significant...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/shipbuilders-council-announces-2020-shipyard-safety-awards/

Mariners need more safety management training, experts say

Safety management systems have been in place in the barge industry for many years. The most effective of these increases safety without being burdensome and never change for change sake.

“These are living documents,” Marino Hwang, marine compliance manager at McAllister Towing, told attendees at the American Waterways Operators Safety Committees’ Annual Meeting this week in New Orleans. “But it’s hard for crews to know our safety measures if we keep changing them.”

Communication is key, but...

https://www.workboat.com/news/coastal-inland-waterways/mariners-need-more-safety-management-training-experts-say/