National Marine Service Incorporated, St. Louis, Mo., a recognized leader in shipyard and diesel engine repairs, announces the opening of its new East Coast diesel engine parts and service facility at 4580 Village Avenue, Norfolk, Va. (804) 855-9277.
National Marine indicates the Norfolk facility, the result of much research and assistance from the Greater Hampton Road Organization, is Phase I in the continuing plan to expand service to its East Coast customers. The facility's strategic location will reduce response time and costs for East Coast customers who have previously been served from National Marine's St. Louis base. Service crews will travel to job locations along the East Coast and overseas from the Norfolk location, which will also carry a substantial inventory of new and remanufactured diesel engine parts.
National Marine offers shipyard services as well as diesel engine parts and service to Inland, Gulf and East Coast customers through its full service shipyards in St.
Louis, Mo., New Orleans, La., and Grafton, II. For over 50 years the Transport Division of National Marine has provided contract bulk liquid transportation on the Inland and Gulf waterways.
National Marine Service Incorporated is one of the NICOR basic energy companies.
Berger Marine, Inc., Seattle-based manufacturer and distributor of marine hardware and seafood processing machinery, has appointed two major U.S. East Coast marine equipment distributors, according to company president James L. Montgomery. Maritime Equipment, Inc., with headquarters in Flemington
The first American-owned, U.S.- flag, oceangoing freezer ship designed to operate off the U.S. East Coast was christened recently during ceremonies held at the New York Port Authority's Pier 1, Brooklyn. The "Holland" (shown above) will offer a new service to the East Coast fishing industry,
The supply and anchor-handling vessels that are deployed on the east coast of Canada are basically a transfer of equipment, technology and experience that evolved in the northern parts of the North Sea in the middle to later 1970s. The North Sea as a whole tends to compare environmentally with the
has come to fruition in both areas. We are currently operating three semisubmersible rigs, one jackup rig, and a fleet of nine workboats on the East Coast. The objective of this paper is to tell you something of the operating problems caused by the physical environment in each area and to tell
is sharp and crisp. Furuno's new warehouse and distribution center in Denton, Md., is now open to serve the company's expanding customer base in the Eastern half of the U.S. This facility, more than double the size of the former plant in New Jersey, provides 30,000 square feet of office and warehouse
to promote and build the catamarans in the U.S. Gladding- Hearn, located in Somerset, Mass., will build those vessels that are headed for the East Coast and contiguous areas. Nichols Brothers will build those vessels generally destined for the West Coast, Alaska, and Hawaii. Nichols Brothers'
branch office in Houston, provides Simrad with three locations in the United States. Initial staffing will include Bjorn Carlsen, manager East Coast branch office, and Philip Thompson, manager hydrography. The address of the new Simrad East Coast branch office is: Simrad, Inc., Suite 400
The Ocean Scout, the first semisubmersible oil well drilling rig to be constructed on the East Coast of the U.S., was christened on December 10, 1973, at Bethlehem Steel's Fort McHenry shipyard, '.Baltimore, Md. It was delivered to Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company of New Orleans, La. Sponsor of
The Ocean Scout, the first semisubmersible oil-well drilling rig to be constructed on the East Coast of the United States was towed from Bethlehem Steel's Fort McHenry shipyard on February 21 to a site below the Chesapeake Bay bridges, where final sections of the drilling derrick were erected. The
over the two-year period, while the West Coast is scheduled to handle 187. A somewhat larger number of major availabilities will be performed on the East Coast over the two-year period. The East Coast is scheduled to perform 29 major jobs, while the West Coast is scheduled to handle 26. However, cuts
in the number of regular overhauls will occur next year. Only ten regular overhauls are planned in FY 1986 for commercial yards on the East Coast. This compares with 20 in FY 1985 and 18 in FY 1984. A similar decline is planned on the West Coast. Five regular overhauls are scheduled for
(MBES), allows Unique to boost its subsea equipment rental pool. The order will swell the capacity of Unique’s Singapore base, giving customers in South East Asia fresh access to the calibration free µPAP SSBL sys- tems and the lightweight, robust and user-friendly EM2042, globaloceandesign.com launched
them, identifying and avoiding nodules with visible life present. A second-generation collector, Eureka II, is currently being tested off the US east coast. It has three arms, but the Images courtesy of GSR much larger Eureka III will have 16 arms. Gunasekara estimates that a ? eet of around 16 of
from marinas along the western coast. The exact number of lizing laser detection systems can detect mines just below the mines, as well as their locations, remains largely a mystery, surface, even those hiding in murky water. The Airborne Laser although reports suggest that over three hundred have been
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RADM PHILIP SOBECK, MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND With COVID, we had to make some hard choices for our Do your CIVMARs have upward mobility? mariners because we couldn’t rotate. Many of our mariners The Navy has Sailors who become “Mustangs,” and work found other employment, and were able to use their skills
INTERVIEW WE ARE ENGAGED WITH MULTIPLE US OSW WIND DEVELOPMENTS AND SEEING AN UP-TICK FOR CVA, TECHNOLOGY REVIEW AND RISK REDUCTION SERVICES IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT PHASES. WITH NEW LEASE ROUNDS COMING AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES, WE DO NOT SEE A BIG SLOWDOWN FOR OSW DEVELOPMENTS APART FROM THE OBVIOUS
MARKETS & gas activity returns, we anticipate that supply of the vessels The Question of Emissions to offshore wind projects will reduce, driving demand for ad- Given that SOVs and CSOVs operate in a segment target- ditional CSOVs. ing reduced emissions, and many operate in the North Eu- Outside of China
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Feature Electric Tugs could change down the road. “What do we really need an In San Diego, eWolf’s transits will typically run 20-30 engineer to do? There are no moving parts. So, how does minutes, “not the optimal operation to really see a lot of that [role] change? How does that change where we work?
under its own power up to its homeport, San Diego, where it sits today, ready to enter service at the Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal. Building the beast On the outside, eWolf has the appearance of a standard tug. On the inside, it’s something altogether different. “A tug is a tug in a lot of ways,”
Caterpillar 3516 EPA Tier 4 main engines. The yard is also building two small- er 86-foot tugs for Moran, also set to handle ship assist along the East Coast, ordered the previous year. Senesco Marine is building a series of McAllister Towing, based in downtown New York, took crew transfer vessels for
very different business systems to be in place. “We’ve been able to do both,” he said, noting that having systems in place for government jobs makes East- ern Shipbuilding “move-in ready for the Navy and other DOD agencies that are going to have to grow the ? eet.” “The big challenge,” D’Isernia said
U.S. handles Business Development, North America, for ABS, Coast Guard in construction of Offshore Patrol Cutters Joey D’Isernia, the chairman and CEO of Eastern Ship- (OPC), D’Isernia stressed the challenges of doing both building Group (with three yards in the Florida Pan- government and commercial work
though indirectly and not linked to navigation concerns, say, for NOAA’s own ? eet. Rather, NOAA hands-off the issue to its Integrated Ocean Observing System which suggests that BOEM include a requirement, as a condition of project ap- proval, that wind companies “must develop a high frequency radar
. The unique combination of fac- RI. Orsted must submit a scour and cable protection plan tors in wind farms may lead to reduced navigational effec- at least 120 days before starting scour and cable protection tiveness and lost contact with smaller objects such as buoys, efforts. A monitoring plan is also
Feature Navigation inside the approved lease area as a requirement under the BOEM’s attention to the USCG’s recent 27-page Federal terms and conditions of a speci? c lease. Register Notice (January 19) to establish “shipping safety • For structure siting, the USCG (again) “insists” that fairways along
Feature Navigation “Wind Turbines: The Bigger, the Better” – USDOE Of? ce of Energy Ef? ciency & Renewable Energy, August 24, 2023 ast December the Bureau of Ocean Energy Man- Agencies write: we want to advance wind energy, but ocean agement (BOEM) published a proposed sale no- areas can only yield so
• Investment in Infrastructure and Onshoring Man- sharing best practices. Additionally, given the global nature ufacturing: The administration is committing over $20 of maritime operations, international cooperation is essen- billion towards U.S. port infrastructure over the next tial for establishing
Insights tion on a couple of issues, including engine room crew- For AWO, as an organization, what is its top ing on ATBs with automated systems. This is an issue priorities for the coming six to 12 months and that Congress thought that it addressed in the last Coast what’s being done to address them? Gua
Q&A We’ve still got some work to do. Despite the new guid- Looking across the industry, what are some ance, we are seeing differences in the way that the Coast other important regulatory issues that AWO is Guard is applying crewing and life-saving requirements to currently paying attention to? ATBs from
Insights century technology in 2024.” That’s an area of focus. industry. We want to do that in a realistic way. These are We also want to make sure that we have workers on our great careers where a hardworking person can make a six- vessels who are ? t for duty. One of the things that we have ? gure
Q&A Increasingly, cyber security has been gaining focus as an area of concern across maritime supply chains, and recently the Coast Guard has been tasked with creating and enforcing maritime cyber standards. What do you hope to see from these standards as they are drafted and put to use? Two key
Marine News April 2024 • Volume 35 Number 4 Contributors 1 2 3 5 4 6 7 1 Tom Ewing 5 Barry Parker is a freelance writer specializing in marine, energy and envi- of bdp1 Consulting Ltd provides strategic and tac- ronmental issues. He contributes regularly to this magazine. tical support, including