Workboat Show News

WorkBoat Think Tank webinar series defines a path to the International WorkBoat Show in 2021

Way back in February of this year, in what now seems like another world, I remember talk about delaying trade shows and events that were scheduled for the spring due to concerns about the spread of Covid-19. Despite headlines that advocated for canceling everything, I didn’t believe doing so would be practical or likely. After all, professional sports were ongoing and kids were still in school, so how necessary was it to even consider such unprecedented adjustments?

And then the world changed.

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International WorkBoat Show cancelled, new digital content series launched

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Diversified Communications, organizer of The International WorkBoat Show, announced today that due to ongoing health and safety issues caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, it has become necessary to cancel the 2020 edition of the show that was planned for December.

“It is with heavy hearts that we make the announcement that we will not be holding the 2020 edition of the International WorkBoat Show,” said Group Vice President and Show Director Bob Callahan. “After extensive consultation with the...

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The resilient workboat industry

As I wrote in my April 9 WorkBoat Watch blog, some attendees at December’s International WorkBoat Show said that 2020 was beginning to look promising for the offshore energy sector. Finally, Gulf oil service providers would see some relief from the downturn that had now stretched into a new decade. Then a global oil price feud and coronavirus pandemic broke out.

In WorkBoat‘s annual offshore energy cover story due out later this month, Jim Redden reports that the deepwater Gulf of Mexico has...

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The 10 Top News Stories of 2019

10. M&A ACTIVITY STEADY IN 2019

Over the years Vigor Industrial has grown with mergers and acquisitions of maritime facilities in the Northwest and Alaska and a customer list that includes private as well as major government clients such as the U.S. military and Washington State Ferries (WSF).

Vigor’s track record apparently made it attractive to global investor The Carlyle Group and private equity firm Stellex Capital Management which in September closed the purchase of the Portland, Ore.-based...

https://www.workboat.com/news/workboat-show-news/the-10-top-news-stories-of-2019/

Crowley’s Con/Ro ships named Significant Boat of the Year

Crowley Maritime Corp., Jacksonville, Fla., and subsidiary Jensen Maritime, the company’s Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering firm, were honored with the 2019 Significant Boat of the Year Award during the International Workboat Show in New Orleans last week. The award recognizes the company’s industry-leading combination container/roll on-roll off (ConRo) ships, MV El Coquí and MV Taíno, the first of their kind powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG). Workboat’s recognition...

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Robert Allan receives approval for LNG pushboat design at WorkBoat Show

Classification society DNV GL presented Canadian naval architecture firm Robert Allan Ltd. with an approval in principle (AIP) for a natural gas fueled shallow draft pushboat design at the International WorkBoat Show last week. The AIP is for the RApide 2800-G design.

The rapid expansion of the LNG (liquified natural gas) industry and the rise in unconventional gas production has revolutionized the gas sector in recent years, DNV GL said. The increased availability of LNG has given operators...

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Zodiac Milpro shows off RIB and rubber raiding craft

Zodiac Milpro brought two vessels to the floor of the International WorkBoat Show this year — a 15’5″x6’3″ Combat Rubber Raiding Craft and a 14’5″x6’4″ rigid hull inflatable boat (RIB).

The craft has a maximum payload of 2,756 lbs. WorkBoat Staff photo

The raiding craft is the only craft of its type that has been used in combat in different theaters and come through with flying colors. Other features of the vessel include a patented hull shape, carries heavy payload on plane, can reach faster...

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Offshore wind energy looms large

The liftboat Brave Tern and crewboat Atlantic Pioneer during construction of the Block Island Wind Farm in August 2016. Deepwater Wind photo.

The future of offshore wind energy was a major presence at the 40th annual International WorkBoat Show, a sign of accelerating interest in ocean power from coastal states and the opportunity it could bring to the U.S. maritime sector.

More than a dozen featured expert speakers on offshore wind attracted audiences, including representatives of companies with deep offshore experience in the U.S. oil and gas industry.

A breakfast meeting updating the offshore wind energy industry attracted 225. Doug...

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NTSB marine safety office has a full plate

Brian Curtis, the director of the Office of Marine Safety at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), is a man on a mission. His job is to investigate marine accidents. His goal, he told the audience at Inland Waterways and Passenger Vessel Conference at the International WorkBoat Show in New Orleans Thursday morning, is to make the industry safer. “The idea of our investigations is to gather facts, make recommendations to effect change and try to make sure things don’t happen again.”

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