The Seamen’s Church Institute (SCI) held its annual Maritime Training Benefit Luncheon April 20 in Houston to highlight and raise support for the organization’s Center for Maritime Education, which… Read More
Author: Frank McCormack
The morning of Saturday, May 6, the CSX movable rail bridge that spans the Mobile River at Mile 14 incurred a mechanical issue that left the bridge in an… Read More
For mariners, as with Capt. Kirk and the crew of the starship Enterprise, space, it seems, is the final frontier, now that the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS)… Read More
Day three of this year’s Greater New Orleans Barge Fleeting Association (GNOBFA) River & Marine Industry Seminar tackled a common, yet complicated and potentially costly, scenario for towboat operators… Read More
Of the 145 Fletcher-class destroyers built and commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II between the years 1942 and 1945, four survive as museum ships:… Read More
Coast Guard Sector New Orleans partnered with 30 public and private organizations April 26 to conduct a mass rescue exercise on the Lower Mississippi River in New Orleans. The… Read More
In mid-April, Callan Marine, a Galveston, Texas-based dredging and marine construction company, took delivery of its seventh dredge, an 18-inch cutter suction dredge named the General Marshall. Callan staff,… Read More
The Vicksburg Engineer District’s Mat Sinking Unit (MSU), rarely ever even seen by the public but nonetheless hard at work each low-water season, is an indispensable part of… Read More
Speaking at the March meeting of the Port of Houston Authority’s board of commissioners, Roger Guenther, the port’s executive director, said the authority has seen modest tonnage growth thus… Read More
Once upon a time, it wasn’t unusual for vessel construction or repair jobs to be based on a simple handshake and the word of those involved. Today, the cost… Read More
