Approximately 70 members and guests, the largest turnout ever, attended a recent meeting of the Delaware Valley Chapter of the American Society of Naval Engineers at the Officer's Club, Philadelphia Naval Base.
Howard Taylor of the Philadelphia Maritime Museum made an excellent slide presentation on "Building the Waterway: A Historical Look at the Delaware River." The Port of Philadelphia is not a great natural seaport. However, it ranks among the top three in the United States in terms of total tonnage handled. This is the result of a significant amount of human ingenuity and energy expended. The presentation dealt with the development of the Delaware River and the Port from 1609 to 1980.
Chapter chairman Eugene P. Weinert presented Mr. Taylor with a "Certificate of Appreciation."
James R. Kelly, director of the Delaware River Port Authority's World Trade Division and a past president of the North Atlantic Ports Association, has been named to succeed executive director William W. Watkin Jr. as head of the bistate agency. Mr. Kelly will also assume the new title of president wh
Sealed proposals for construction of a 320-foot ferry will be received by the Delaware River and Bay Authority during normal business hours at the Director's Office in the Administration Building, Delaware Memorial Bridge, New Castle, Del., until 10:30 a.m., E.S.T., December 13, 1978, at which time
a deal with the State of Delaware, USA, which would grant GT USA, Wilmington exclusive rights to operate and develop the Port of Wilmington, on the Delaware River downstream from Philadelphia for the next 50 years.For an emirate which covers a mere 1,000 square miles or about 3.3 per cent of the UAE's total
,000 percent. Located at Cooper's Point on Camden's north shore, the company has the good fortune of being the only commercial repair yard along the Delaware River, and the only one between New York City and Baltimore, Md. Presently, it repairs and maintains 240 to 270 vessels. The floating drydock is expected
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in King's Point, N.Y. The 192- by 35- by 8-foot Spirit of Philadelphia will operate in Philadelphia Harbor and on the Delaware River and is certified for 600 passengers on three fully enclosed, carpeted, climate-controlled decks. The vessel carries a crew of 75 who are
, the Philadelphia Port Authority is offering virtually to subsidize trucking costs by guaranteeing that shipping costs for cargo coming into the Delaware River port will not exceed the cost of using Baltimore. Bill McLaughlin, director of communications for the Philadelphia Port Authority, stated
for one of the largest private shipyards in the U.S. Pennsylvania Shipbuilding Company is a 185-acre facility situated alone one-mile of Delaware River waterfront, nine miles south of the Philadelphia airport. As one of the largest private shipyards in the U.S., it can do new construction, conversi
McAllister Brothers, Inc., has acquired I n d e p e n d e n t Towing Company of Philadelphia, Pa., a major Delaware River tug operator, and will merge it into its organization. The announcement was made by Anthony J. McAllister Jr., president of the New York, N . Y . - b a s e d t o w i n g and trans
Camarc Small Craft Designs. Powered by two Detroit 8V2000, the vessels are capable of top speeds of 25 knots. Derecktor also signed with the State of Delaware Department of Fish & Wildlife for the construction of a new Fisheries Research Vessel that will replace their current boat, a 100-year-old converted wo
Twice in recent weeks Pennsylvania Shipbuilding Company in Chester, Pa., has come to the aid of a foreign-flag vessel stranded in the Delaware River and unable to meet her commitment to load cargo. In the first instance, the 74,000-dwt Hong Kong-owned, Liberian-flag OBO Mega Bay had sustained
Credit Corporation has closed a $4.5-million interim first mortgage loan on the Northern Metals Marine Terminal, a 40-acre port facility on the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pa. The 10-year loan is secured by a 184,000-square-foot d o c k s i d e t e r m i n a l , a 24,000-square-foot o f f i c
R&D MATT HART Matt Hart, Manager & Platform Leader, Marine & Stationary Power Systems, Wabtec, offers insights on how the megatrends of decarbonization, energy transition and autonomy all inspire Image courtesy Wabtec and impact the marine power solutions from Wabtec. By Greg Trauthwein Matt, to start
Maritime Risk Top Marine Business Risks in 2024 By Rich Soja, North American Head Marine, Allianz Commercial yber incidents such as ransomware attacks, data linked to several large ? re incidents at sea in recent years. breaches, and IT disruptions are the biggest worry Regularly assessing and updating
Back to the Drawing Board Let’s Set Some Standards for Micro Cargo By Rik van Hemmen s zero carbon cargo efforts are progressing, it is becoming more apparent that the lowest hanging fruit is in the last few miles. This is where a large amount of carbon is expended in delivering small A parcels to
Passenger Vessel Safety occur on a sightseeing vessel or an Ohio River dinner cruise? This contrast between speci? c – sometimes very speci? c – and general comes to mind when considering the numerous safety advisories pertaining to recent amphibious DUKW boat tragedies or the 2019 Conception dive boat
Philip Lewis, Director of Research, Intelatus Global Partners As we enter a New Year, the memories of the shocks to with a potential of 3.3-6.3 GW in Delaware and Chesa- the foundations to the U.S. offshore wind segment remain peake Bays in the Central Atlantic. Along with the Central fresh. In short,
COATINGS Figure 6. The M/V Mark W. Barker sports exterior topcoats in The Interlake Steamship Company’s distinctive red (hull) and brown (freeboard). coat with a DFT of 20 to 25 mils. Aluminum oxide was added for at least a decade before dry docking – nearly double the for slip resistance and texture
COATINGS Figure 1. The M/V Mark W. Barker is speci? cally designed to navigate the occasionally narrow rivers and con? ned ports scattered across the Great Lakes region. All images courtesy of The Interlake Steamship Company Figure 2. Distinguished by its Figure 3. The Interlake Steamship square-shaped
TECH FEATURE A New Era for Great Lakes Freighters with Modern Marine Epoxies By Justin Peare, Marine Coatings Representative, Great Lakes Region & Matt Heffernan, Commercial Marine Business Manager, North America, Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine he Motor Vessel Mark W. Barker – the ? rst U.S.
Jonas Wüst, now CEO at Tethys Robotics, set out to build an autonomous underwater drone following a student research project at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich), a public university in Switzerland. Professional divers and the Tethys ROV Underwater drone from Tethys
CASE STUDY ROV DVL TECH Tethys Robotics’ underwater drone in Lake Zurich during a harbor inspection. All image courtesy Nortek Tethys Robotic’s new ROV Leverages Nortek DVL Tech new Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) from Swit- pulse along a minimum of three acoustic beams, each pointing zerland’s Tethys
OPINION: The Final Word Copyright William/AdobeStock Where is the IMO? Tasked to ? ght climate change, what’s up with United Nations ocean shipping agency charged with the responsibility to regulate GHGs? By T. Nelson Thompson hy can’t global ocean shipping, an industry based in an unassuming brown
Blue Sky Maritime Coalition “We need a sustainable maritime fuel.” – Jennifer States, VP and chief strategy of? cer, Blue Sky Maritime Coalition tugboat for a demonstration project along the Hudson River. Amogy’s am- monia powerpack—an ammonia fed fuel cell, mountable in a container or on a
Feature Power & Propulsion Seabulk Towing Seabulk’s ? rst ever electric-hybrid tugboat, Spartan, was built by Master Boat Builders and delivered in 2022. is based. Kirby’s role goes beyond vessel operating. The ing. Thus, these vessels may be candidates for electri? cation vessel was built in
Feature Power & Propulsion not subject to speci? c IMO decarbonization measures such pair of Cat 3512E’s, each rated at 2,213 bhp, driving a Schot- as the Carbon Intensity Index, or CII), stressed that “due to tel SRP 430FP Z-drive unit. The same yard has two tugs un- signi? cant inherent differences in
Insights model that we’re building now. For ports where you don’t that runs a ? eet of seven tugboats and a number of barges need 95 tons, that makes a lot of sense. We’re pretty bullish for salvage and other work on the river. on [the RAscal] model.” Not only do these segments help DMI ride out dips
Insights business is building tugboats for customers throughout the U.S., this can sometimes mean coming up with new ways to solve challenges bound to arise in the shipbuild- ing industry. The yard is situated in what Manning described as “an odd location for building boats”, nestled between a road and
Marine News November 2023 • Volume 34 Number 11 Contributors 1 24 35 7 6 8 9 1 Jennifer Carpenter 5 Edward Lundquist is president & CEO of The American Waterways Op- is a retired naval of? cer who writes on maritime and security erators, the tugboat, towboat and barge industry’s ad- issues.
People & Companies Diversi? ed Marine Names Crowley Hires Fowler Crowley has appointed James Fowl- Manning President & COO er as senior vice president and general Diversi? ed Marine, Inc. has promot- ed Frank Manning to president and manager of its shipping business unit. COO. The company’s founder
Montgomery Locks and Dam on upper Ohio River Michel Sauret / USACE “We look forward to the day that we have not just a groundbreaking, but a ribbon cutting when we’ll be able to achieve the full bene? ts of this system,” Stephaich said. Mary Ann Bucci, executive direc- tor at the Port of Pittsburgh
Feature Inland Waterways nomic Development (NED) plan for improving the Em- Pittsburgh—were each constructed prior to 1936 and have sworth, Dashields and Montgomery locks and dams with the oldest and smallest lock chambers on the Ohio River. new expanded lock chambers. At each of the three sites, Of
Feature Inland Waterways Michel Sauret / USACE INLAND WATERWAYS: M I AKING ROGRESS P ON NFRASTRUCTURE By Eric Haun he United States’ vast network of navigable in- gable rivers and enabling the ef? cient ? ow of commerce— land rivers is vital to the nation’s economy, serv- are in desperate need of
Lee was asked: as you review H2 as a possible new fuel, what indicators are you looking for that would demonstrate a H2 project’s feasibility and viability for the maritime industry? For context, Lee suggests that new fuels will require a bit of a shakeup in traditional thinking among mariners. That’s
local Fire Marshal.” That permit reference, though, apparently isn’t from SFFD. Rather, it’s a reference to Air Liquide fueling tests at a facility in Delaware, research necessary for the SF project. SFFD was asked about permits for the SF H2 work. To be clear, the per- mitting references in the AMR are
Marine News October 2023 • Volume 34 Number 10 Contributors 1 24 35 9 7 6 8 10 1 Jim Bunsey uting writer for Marine News and MarineLink.com. is the director of commercial business development at the Propane Education & Research Council. 6 Edward Lundquist is a retired naval of? cer who writes