ZF North America (ZF), best known in the maritime community as a manufacturer of transmissions, propellers, thrusters, steering systems and electronic control systems, has partnered with Pontiac, Mich.-based Detroit Sewn… Read More
Author: Frank McCormack
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao announced April 20 the award of $19.6 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MarAd) through the Small Shipyard Grant Program. Twenty-four… Read More
The idea started with a video project by his daughter’s first grade teachers. Like all schools in the United States, Blessey Marine President Clark Todd’s daughter’s school is suspended as… Read More
Across the maritime industry, every company, agency, port or terminal has been impacted by efforts to “flatten the curve” of infections of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Read More
The Alabama State Port Authority announced completion March 20 of a 400-foot extension to the APM Terminals Mobile container terminal. The extension, part of a $50 million Phase 3 expansion… Read More
The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) has joined a host of other organizations offering virtual tours and digital learning during the nationwide stay-at-home effort to combat the spread of… Read More
Walter James “Jimmy” Amoss Jr., former CEO of Lykes Bros. Steamship Company and founder of Seapoint, a container transfer concept envisioned for near the mouth of the Mississippi River, died… Read More
Shortly after 4 a.m. on March 15, 2019, the mv. Dixie Vandal, traveling inbound on the Houston Ship Channel with a partially loaded fuel barge, struck the mv. Trinity and… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its marine accident brief February 27 detailing its investigation into a February 27, 2019, allision involving the mv. Chad Pregracke, part of Marquette… Read More
In 1970, Liebherr, the global construction machinery and technology manufacturer whose founder, Hans Liebherr, invented the mobile tower crane in 1949, launched its U.S. operations in Newport News, Va., under… Read More
