New Zealand

EV Maritime selected to electrify popular ferry service in San Francisco Bay

EV Maritime, a New Zealand-based electric ferry design and technology company, announced July 12 that it has been commissioned by Angel Island Tiburon Ferry (AITF) to design an all-new hybrid electric vessel for the fleet. The progressive project, which will see the electrification of two existing vessels and the construction of a third new plug-in hybrid vessel, has been funded by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). The hybrid vessel will be designed and engineered by EV Maritime with...

https://www.marinelog.com/passenger/ferries/ev-maritime-selected-to-electrify-popular-ferry-service-in-san-francisco-bay/

Operator reveals New Zealand ferry ran aground three weeks following overhaul

Aratere aground near South Island

New Zealand ferry operator Interislander has confirmed that a steering failure had caused the Ro-Pax vessel Aratere to run aground near Picton on South Island late last week. This failure caused the ferry to gradually divert from its intended course and head into the side of a cliff shortly after...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/passenger/ro-pax/operator-reveals-new-zealand-ferry-ran-aground-three-weeks-following-overhaul/

New Zealand government to reverse ban on oil and gas exploration

Oil rig at an undisclosed location

Removing the ban on petroleum exploration beyond onshore Taranaki in New Zealand is part of a suite of proposed amendments to the Crown Minerals Act to deal with the energy security challenges posed by rapidly declining natural gas reserves, New Zealand Resources Minister Shane Jones confirmed. Mr...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/offshore/exploration-development/offshore-exploration/new-zealand-government-to-reverse-ban-on-oil-and-gas-exploration/

Australian rescue organisation’s newest boats complete sea trials

Marine Rescue NSW's new boats Brunswick 30 and Trial Bay 30

Australian volunteer search and rescue (SAR) organisation Marine Rescue NSW has completed conducting sea trials of two recently acquired rigid inflatable boats (RIBs). Brunswick 30 and Trial Bay 30 belong to the same series of RIBs built by Yamba Welding and Engineering (YWE). Design work on the...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/ribs-and-rhibs/australian-rescue-organisations-newest-boats-complete-sea-trials/

ESB Miguel Keith Drills with Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force in East China Sea

The Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary mobile base USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5) steams in the Gulf of Thailand, Mar. 1, 2024, during Exercise Cobra Gold 2024. U.S. Navy Photo

Expeditionary sea base USS Miguel Keith(ESB-5) carried out trilateral drills with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the Royal New Zealand Air Force in the East China Sea earlier this week. 

Destroyer JS Akizuki(DD-115) and a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft performed the drills for...

https://news.usni.org/2024/05/15/esb-miguel-keith-drills-with-japan-maritime-self-defense-force-royal-new-zealand-air-force-in-east-china-sea

EDITORIAL | Cook Strait checkmate: new Solutions for safer New Zealand ferries

Kaitaki in Wellington Harbour, photo date unknown

Nearly 900 people were on KiwiRail Interislander’s 29-year-old ferry Kaitaki when it lost power in a storm in January 2023 whilst entering Wellington Harbour en route from Picton on the South Island. Thankfully, nobody died and in the end, the passengers remained safely on the ship rather than...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/passenger-vessel-world/ro-pax/editorial-cook-strait-checkmate-new-solutions-for-safer-new-zealand-ferries/

Alaska tour operator acquires fast catamaran

Chugach Express, Phillips Cruises and Tours' new sightseeing catamaran

Phillips Cruises and Tours of Anchorage, Alaska recently took delivery of a new fast aluminium catamaran built to a design by New Zealand-based naval architecture firm Teknicraft Design. Chugach Express will operate daily in Prince William Sound and will be based out of Whittier. Constructed to US...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/passenger-vessel-world/maritime-tourism/alaska-tour-operator-acquires-fast-catamaran/

COLUMN | Looking to the future: Petrobras newbuilds; James Fisher; Saudi Arabia’s NEOM plans; TotalEnergies and Sapura; wind bust timing [Offshore Accounts]

“Brazil is the country of the future,” goes the cliché that the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig declared in 1941 as the opening line of his book Brazil, Land of the Future. Zweig wrote in exile there, and a year later, he and his wife deliberately killed themselves with a drug overdose. Brazilians then began joking […]

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https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/offshore-world/column-looking-to-the-future-petrobras-newbuilds-james-fisher-saudi-arabias-neom-plans-totalenergies-and-sapura-wind-bust-timing-offshore-accounts/

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