Offshore Vessel News Roundup | January 26 – Chinese and UK crewboats plus US and Turkish SOVs

The offshore wind maintenance sector is the focus of our latest offshore vessels roundup. A new SWATH crewboat is delivered to an owner in China as construction starts on ..

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VESSEL REVIEW | Eddie Somers – Icebreaking buoy tender for Maryland Department of Natural Resources

Rhode Island-based shipbuilder Blount Boats recently handed over a new icebreaking buoy tender to the Hydrographic Operations fleet of the Maryland Department of Natural ..

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Rhode Island ups its offshore wind ambitions

Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee has signed into law legislation that seeks to expand the state’s offshore wind energy resources. The new law requires a market-competitive procurement for between 600 and 1,000 MW of newly-developed offshore wind capacity. Rhode Island’s primary utility company, Rhode Island Energy, is required to issue the procurement no later than Oct. 15, 2022.

“Offshore wind is one of our state’s most abundant natural resources,” said Gov. McKee. “Adding offshore wind clean energy...

https://www.marinelog.com/offshore/offshore-wind/rhode-island-ups-its-offshore-wind-ambitions/

Construction to begin on new hybrid electric ferry for Maine’s Casco Bay Lines

Shipbuilder Senesco Marine of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, will soon begun construction on a new hybrid electric, double-ended Ro-Pax ferry ordered by Casco Bay Lines o ..

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Work Boat World Passenger Vessel Orders and Deliveries Roundup – June 9, 2022

A new fast catamaran has been delivered to an operator in Greece’s Saronic Islands while new tour boats have entered service with operators in New South Wales in Au ..

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FreightWaves Classics: Rhode Island established Board of Public Roads

Traffic is heavy on I-95 in Providence, Rhode Island. (Photo: turnto10.com)

On November 18, 1902, Rhode Island established the State Board of Public Roads “to oversee the construction, maintenance and improvement of the state’s highways system.” 

Prior to its establishment, there was no state-level entity to “supervise and monitor work on public roads within Rhode Island; those duties were instead localized and decidedly scattershot.”

In the early 1900s, most U.S. roads were dirt roads, that became muddy tracks after it rained. (Photo: National Agricultural Library/USDA)In the early 1900s, most U.S. roads were dirt roads, that became muddy tracks after it rained.
(Photo: National Agricultural...

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