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Yesterday morning Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on the Department of the Interior's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget proposal what the Washington Examiner characterized as "a whopper." The video shows him telling it.   ...

At least one potential buyer is interested in Canada's bankrupt Davie Yards. Oslo-listed Cecon ASA, which is the yard's main customer, says it has entered into a preliminary agreement "providing for exclusive negotiations/discussions with a large, well-reputed international company for the purpose of facilitating the purchase of Davie Yards Inc. assets with the view to secure delivery o ...

Singapore's Beng Kuang Marine Limited reports that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Asian Sealand Engineering Pte Ltd., has secured a contract with an established offshore marine company to construct one 142.5 m submersible, transport, launch barge. The value of the contract is $21.0 million (approximately S$26.7 million). The contract is expected to commence in March 2011 ...

A key element of using a "citadel" to protect crews against pirates is to provide a reliable communication link that the crew can use from inside the fortified space to inform patrolling naval forces that they are under attack. This is more difficult than it might at first appear. Once on a vessel, pirates  can quickly disconnect the ship ...

Wärtsilä has been awarded a contract by shipbuilding company STX Finland Oy to supply the propulsion machinery for a new passenger ferry to be built for Viking Line, a Finnish ship owner. The vessel will be the largest passenger ferry to operate on liquefied natural gas (LNG), making it the most environmentally sound and energy efficient large p ...

Polarcus Limited (OAX: PLCS) reports that Polarcus Samur Ltd, a member of the Polarcus Group, took delivery on March 2, 2011 of POLARCUS SAMUR, the fourth 3D seismic vessel to date to join the Polarcus fleet. The vessel was built at the Drydocks World - Dubai shipyard in the United Arab Emirates and is transiting directly to Namibia to commence a charter fo ...

Wärtsilä has introduced a new series of midsize waterjets. The new series means that Wärtsilä's range of stainless steel jets now includes all sizes from 510 mm to 3,250 mm. Wärtsilä says this makes it the only supplier serving both midsize and the lower range of large waterjet applications with a single product. The new series is aimed particularly at the high speed fe ...

American Commercial Lines Inc. (ACL) said today that its Jeffboat manufacturing facility will be recalling approximately 200 hourly employees, and hiring several salaried supervisory personnel, over the next seven weeks to build an increased number of barges in 2011. Jeffboat, located on the Ohio River in Jeffersonville, IN, is the country's largest inland shipbuilder. ...

TTS Marine AB has won two contracts to supply RO/RO equipment to four  car carriers.The first contract is with Hyundai Heavy Industries for delivery of cargo access equipment to two newbuildings, hull no 2399 and 2400. The vessels are 6,500 units PCTC ordered by Glovis, a logistics company in the Hyundai Group. The vessels will be delivered to Glovis by ...

House Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee Chairman Frank LoBiondo (R-N.J.) set a no-nonsense tone when he opened up a hearing yesterday to review the Administration's budget requests for the U.S. Coast Guard, the Federal Maritime Commission, and the Maritime Administration:"This Congress must make extremely difficult decisions in the coming months to bring our ...