Marine Travelift launches new Electric Series battery-powered mobile boat hoists

Sturgeon Bay, Wis.-based Marine Travelift has added electrically powered mobile boat hoists to its product line. It says that “after over two years of design, manufacturing and in-depth factory testing, the Electric Series performance is everything you would expect from a Marine Travelift machine without the emissions of a diesel engine.”

The company’s engineering team spent countless hours designing and perfecting the 700-volt battery powered system for the 50BFMII boat hoist, which has a 50...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/marine-travelift-launches-new-electric-series-battery-powered-mobile-boat-hoists/

Marine Group Boat Works in multi-million dollar modernization project

Marine Group Boat Works (MGBW) yard after modernization

Family-owned Marine Group Boat Works (MGBW), which earlier this year was awarded a Small Shipyard Grant worth more than $1.1 million, is to undertake a multi-million dollar modernization project at its 15-acre shipbuilding and repair facility on San Diego Bay in Chula Vista, Calif. Central to the project will be the addition of a new 820-ton state-of-the-art mobile boat lift, which will be the only sideways-crawling boat lift on the West Coast and the largest in the United States.

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https://www.marinelog.com/shipbuilding/shipyards/shipyard-news/marine-group-boat-works-in-multi-million-dollar-modernization-project/

Senator says Buy American waiver should not apply to Small Shipyard grants

U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) is calling on the Biden Administration to commit to never applying a recently finalized Buy American waiver to shipyard grants and to help ensure American companies and workers are benefitting from taxpayer-funded shipbuilding.

In 2019, Senator Baldwin successfully included her bipartisan Strengthening Buy America for Small Shipyard Grants Act in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, requiring that products and materials purchased with Small Shipyard...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal/regulations/senator-says-buy-american-waiver-should-not-apply-to-small-shipyard-grants/