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- Navy Announces Homeport Sites In Gulf Coast Area Maritime Reporter, Aug 15, 1985 #5
After reviewing the results of a year-long Gulf Coast strategic study, the Secretary of Defense has announced homeporting decisions affecting nine Gulf Coast cities. The plan, to be implemented in the late 1980s and early 90s, involves some 29 ships and approximately 15,000 personnel.

The current Navy shipbuilding program will add 130 vessels by the end of the decade. Current homeport areas are at or near capacity, and prudent military planning dictates that the Navy disperse its increased fleet. This strategic dispersal, along with the lowest possible cost to the Navy, were the determining factors in the decision.

The Navy's plan calls for the battleship Wisconsin (BB-64), a cruiser, destroyer, and minesweeper, to be homeported in Corpus Christi, Texas. In addition, the Navy training carrier will be shifted from Pensacola, Fla., to Corpus upon completion of facilities. Two frigates and three minesweepers will be homeported in the Houston/Galveston areas as part of the Surface Action Group initiative.

Five ships will be homeported in Louisiana—two mine warfare vessels and an oiler in Lake Charles, and two additional fast sealift ships in the New Orleans area at Violet.

A decision has also been made to station the 15th Navy carrier battle group in the Gulf. An operational carrier (replacing the training carrier) and a mine warfare ship will be stationed in Pensacola. Two destroyers, two frigates, and a minesweeper will go to Mobile, Ala. Pascagoula, Miss., will be homeport for two cruisers and two destroyers. A mine warfare vessel will be based in Gulfport, Miss.

Rounding out the Navy's move to the Gulf Coast will be homeporting of a landing craft repair ship, a salvage ship, and the establishing of a shore-based ocean surveillance ship support group in Key West, Fla.
- Cruise Yacht Ponce De Leon Now Being Built At Marine Fabricators For Florida Gulf Coast Corporation Maritime Reporter, Aug 1985 #30
will be McElroy Electric Double Wildcat for l'/2-inch chain and 3,000-pound anchors. According to Robert G. O'Connor, president of Florida Gulf Coast Corporation, when the Ponce de Leon is completed in 1986 she will provide her 148 passengers with the amenities of a luxury liner and the ambience
- Gulf Coast Shipyards Maritime Reporter, Apr 1985 #78
River and the Intracoastal Canal. Circle 65 on Reader Service Card HALTER MARINE Halter Marine is operating six shipyards in the U.S. Gulf Coast area. When combined, the current workload at all six yards makes Halter a leader on the Gulf Coast. In addition, Halter has supplemented its
- Gulf Coast Trailing Dredge Under Construction At Twin City Shipyard Maritime Reporter, Feb 15, 1985 #6
Construction of a 4,000-cubic-yard hopper dredge is progressing on schedule at Twin City Shipyard (TCS) in St. Paul, Minn. The 8,000- bhp vessel for Gulf Coast Trailing Company of New Orleans is being designed and constructed by TCS using the latest modular and zone construction methods. TCS is using
- Twin City Shipyard Lays Keel For Gulf Coast Trailing Dredge Maritime Reporter, Sep 15, 1984 #26
were held recently at Twin City Shipyard in St. Paul, Minn., for the 3,850-cubic-foot, suction hopper dredge Ouachita being constructed for Gulf Coast Trailing Company of New Orleans. The 300-foot vessel will incorporate many state-ofthe- art features unique for U.S. dredges, such as her propulsion
- N e w Gulf Coast Marine Communications Service Maritime Reporter, Apr 1992 #78
SCS Communications Services, based in New Orleans, has been organized to provide the Gulf Coast maritime industry with public relations, communications, marketing and advertising services. Albert W. Spindler, a veteran of more than a quarter century in the aerospace, maritime, offshore drilling and
- Dan Mortimer Elected President Of New Yard —Gulf Coast Fabrication Maritime Reporter, Aug 1981 #19
The board of directors of Gulf Coast Fabrication, Inc. has announced the election of Dan Mortimer Mortimer as president of the new company which has acquired an existing shipyard site in Pass Christian, Miss. The company will engage in all phases of marine construction, primarily offshore deck
- Blohm + Voss Plans To Manufacture Its Joiner System On Gulf Coast Maritime Reporter, May 1981 #32
and some 85 offshore units in the North Sea, will now be manufactured in the United States. B + V recently announced plans for a plant in the Gulf Coast area. The M1000 system is said to offer a number of advantages for fabricators as well as owners and crews. The system is approved by the
- Phillips Appointed Gulf Coast General Manager For Designers & Planners Maritime Reporter, Jan 1981 #6
The Galveston Office of Designers & Planners, Inc. has been redesignated as the Gulf Coast Office, and has been relocated in Dickinson, Texas, midway between Galveston and Houston. Monroe Levy, vice president and manager of the Galveston Office, retired from D&P on December 31, 1980. However
- Dillingham Forms New Subsidiary To Operate In Gulf Coast Area Maritime Reporter, Aug 15, 1980 #34
, said: "Ocean Transportation Services will be active in inland waterways and coastal towing, barging, and related marine services within the Gulf Coast area. The company will offer w o r l d w i de shipping operations, but will put special emphasis on the handling of cargoes bound to and from Central
- Mitsubishi Appoints Oosterhuis Industries Gulf Coast Distributor For Diesel Engines Maritime Reporter, Mar 15, 1980 #18
Oosterhuis Industries, Inc. of Belle Chasse, La., in which Oosterhuis will become the master distributor for Mitsubishi marine diesel engines in the Gulf Coast states of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. According to Herman H. Oosterhuis, president of Oosterhuis Industries
- Bird-Johnson Names Gulf Coast Manager Maritime Reporter, Feb 15, 1980 #42
Jim Darby has been appointed Gulf Coast regional manager for Bird-Johnson Company, a leading manufacturer of marine propulsion and maneuvering systems. Mr. Darby will manage Bird- Johnson Company's Marine Division sales office located at 6430 Hillcroft, Suite 112E, Houston, Texas 77081. Since

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regulated industry in the world.” How- ever, commercial success depends on many factors, not least a predictable OPEX. Over the past four years, SMD has worked with Oil States Industries to calculate cost per tonne ? gures for prospective customers. Patania II uses jet water pumps to Oil States’
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University and a Master of Engineering changes in water density, strong currents, and storm condi- in Systems Engineering and Project tions – such as the Gulf of Mexico or the Indian Ocean – the Management from Cornell University. Sentinel’s large buoyancy engine and optional thruster capa- bility will keep
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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
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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
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world with FPSOs and the turret business, then dif? cult to provide quantitative ? gures as this is driven by the moving to New Orleans to work on Gulf of Mexico deepwater developers and approval regime,” said Langford. “However, projects with Shell. Eventually he settled in Houston, working we are
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build the hulls in countries Construction and commissioning have been supported by including Vietnam, Turkey, Romania, and Spain) and China. several Gulf of Mexico Tier 2 and 3 vessels, the supply of According to CSOV owner Integrated Wind Solutions, the which is expected to ? nd core deployment in
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? rst female chair of the TxDOT and ? rst Latina Secre- tary of State, Esperanza “Hope” Andrade, the vessel was designed by The Shearer Group and built by Gulf Island Fabricators in Louisiana. The 293-foot-long double-ended ferry is out? tted with diesel-powered and electrical engines and Siemens Energy’s
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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?
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Feature Electric Tugs ing tug design. ABB was brought on as systems integrator, and Coden, Ala. shipbuilder Master Boat Builders began building the vessel later that year. The result of these efforts is the 82-foot-long tug eWolf, built to ABS class and is compliant with U.S. Coast Guard Subchapter M
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known to be build- ing CTVs at the moment include Blount Boats and Sensesco Marine, both in Rhode Island, as well as Met- al Shark, Breaux Brothers and Gulf Craft in Louisiana and Gladding- Hearn Shipbuilding in Massachusetts. Port Angeles, Wash. shipyard Platypus Marine is building a CTV on spec. Work
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Feature Shipbuilding WindServe Marine you don’t have the sustained backlog.” Previous editions of Marine News’ U.S. Shipbuilding re- port have noted the increasing concern about what ABS’s Bleiberg (moderating the Marine Money panel) called “the big push for sustainable” shipping”, adding that: “What we
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for Hornbeck Offshore Services. sector, noting “the smaller pool” and citing Bollinger’s According to Eastern, HOS Warhorse and HOS Wild acquisitions of Gulf Island Shipyard (2021) and Halter Horse will boast two large, heave-compensated cranes, two (2022). He said, “Staying in commercial keeps your blades
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Feature ECO Edison, the ? rst U.S.- Shipbuilding built wind farm service operations vessel. Ørsted U.S. SHIPBUILDING REPORT By Barry Parker If nothing else, building vessels in the U.S. is a com- handle), handling “…government and commercial work, plicated business. primarily newbuilds, but also
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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
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Feature Navigation cables, 9 miles of cables connecting substations and up to blurred, undependable information for vessel crews. two export transmission cables with “associated secondary In the fairways Notice, the USCG references the NAS cable protection” (text is from the permit) within a 42-mile-
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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
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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
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• 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
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.4 billion in GDP. These are good family-waged jobs in all 50 states and communities across the nation. In fact, in many communities in regions like the Gulf states, the shipyard industrial base is the leading economic engine, employ- ing generations of families. There are 125 yards engaged in www.marinelink
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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
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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
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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