Pride of Maui, a tour company based in Wailuku, Hawaii, has taken delivery of a new sightseeing boat built by Breaux Brothers Enterprises of New Iberia, Louisiana. The vessel has been named Pride of Maui Elua, “elua” being the Hawaiian translation of “two” as it is the second vessel in the owner’s...
Louisiana-based boatbuilder Metal Shark Boats has unveiled a new type of autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) with amphibious and semi-submersible navigation capability. Metal Shark said the ASV combines multiple technologies to meet the current and near-future warfighting requirements of the US military and its allies. Merging autonomous, amphibious, and semi-submersible capabilities with the performance and seakeeping […]
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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...
Bollinger Shipyards of Houma, Louisiana laid the keel of the US Navy’s tenth Navajo-class towing, salvage and rescue ship (T-ATS) in a ceremony on Wednesday, March 20. The future USNS Muscogee Creek Nation honours the self-governed Native American tribe located in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. The...
The US Coast Guard has taken delivery of a new Sentinel-class fast response cutter (FRC) built by Bollinger Shipyards of Louisiana. The future USCGC David Duren is the first of three FRCs that will be homeported in Astoria, Oregon, as part of Sector Columbia River. This sector is responsible for...
The Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) recently took delivery of two new patrol boats in a series built by Metal Shark Boats of Jeanerette, Louisiana. The vessels are the seventh and eighth vessels overall that Metal Shark has delivered to the PRPD since 2016. Each of the new patrol boats has...
Nashville, Tennessee-based inland shipping company the Ingram Marine Group, operating under the name Ingram Barge Company, has formally named three recently delivered welded-steel pusher tugs built by Main Iron Works of Houma, Louisiana. Sister vessels Patrick L. Morton (pictured), Teresa Sprouse,...
US-based boatbuilder Metal Shark Boats is expanding its presence in its home state of Louisiana with the addition of a third manufacturing facility. Metal Shark, which recently sold its Alabama-based ship refit and repair business to Birdon America, opened a 40,000-square-foot (3,716-square-metre) manufacturing facility in Iberia Parish. Together with Metal Shark’s nearby Jeanerette and Franklin […]
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Following the recent divestiture of its Bayou La Batre, Ala., shipyard, Louisiana-based boat builder Metal Shark is expanding its presence in its home state with the addition of a third manufacturing facility. The new 40,000 square facility is located in Iberia Parish, adjacent to Tabasco’s headquarters on Avery Island. Together with Metal Shark’s nearby Jeanerette and Franklin production facilities, the company now boasts nearly 200,000 square feet of enclosed manufacturing space in...
Seattle-based seafood company the Arctic Storm Management Group has taken delivery of a new trawler-processor optimised for catching Alaska pollock in the Bering Sea. The Jones Act-compliant Arctic Fjord was designed by Norway’s Kongsberg Maritime and built at the Houma, Louisiana facilities of Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors. The newbuild, which replaces a similarly named vessel originally […]
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