WORK BOAT WORLD: Shearwater GeoServices has confirmed the appointment of Kristin Færøvik to the company’s board of directors. Færøvik was the Managing Director ..
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Family-owned Feeney Shipyard in Kingston, New York, has completed work to convert the oil spill response vessel Maine Responder into a pilot station vessel for the Sandy ..
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The US Navy’s newest berthing barge, Auxiliary Personnel Lighter (APL) 69, recently conducted builder’s and acceptance trials in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The builder& ..
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VT Halter Marine of Pascagoula, Mississippi, has been awarded a US$552,654,757 fixed-price incentive modification to a previously awarded US Department of Defense (DOD) c ..
UPDATED: The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., has awarded Pascagoula, Miss., based shipbuilder VT Halter Marine Inc. a $552,654,757 fixed-price incentive modification to previously awarded contract N00024-16-C-2210. The modification exercises an option for the detail design and construction of the second Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter.
Halter Marine says that initial efforts under this option will target the purchase of long lead-time materials, specifically the generator sets,...
The following is the Sept. 15, 2021, Government Accountability Office report Coast Guard: Information on Defense Readiness Mission Deployments, Expenses, and Funding.
From the report
One of the six armed forces, the U.S. Coast Guard is a multimission maritime military service within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It is responsible for implementing 11 statutory missions. One mission—Defense Readiness—requires the Coast Guard to maintain the training and capability needed to integrate...
https://news.usni.org/2021/09/22/gao-report-on-coast-guard-defense-missions
A new articulated tug and barge (ATB) slated for LNG bunkering and supply duties recently began operations under Quality Liquefied Natural Gas Transport (Q-LNG), a New Or ..
A unique vessel conversion project is presently in its final stages at Feeney Shipyard in upper New York State. The object of the conversion is the former Maine Responder ..
Q-LNG Transport has confirmed that the first offshore LNG bunkering and articulated tug and barge (ATB) unit to sail under the US flag is now ready for operations. Built ..
The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star breaks ice in McMurdo Sound near Antarctica on Jan. 13, 2018. US Coast Guard Photo
For the first time in almost five decades, the Coast Guard’s heavy icebreaker won’t be supporting Antarctic scientific missions in coming months but will operate instead the Arctic near Alaska, the ice breaker’s commander said recently.
USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10) will deploy in December “to project [U.S.] sovereignty” over its waters off Alaska and “to strengthen the rules...
https://news.usni.org/2020/11/20/coast-guard-icebreaker-polar-star-bound-for-the-arctic-in-december