Caribbean Drydock Limited (Caridoc), located on the island of Trinidad, the last and one of the most industrialized in the chain of Caribbean islands, plays a significant role in the area's ...

Cascade General, Inc., the only marine repair contractor at the Port of Portland's international shipyard, has been bought and recapitalized by Tore Steen, majority owner of Ponderosa Acquisition ...

Advanced Marine Enterprises, Inc. (AME) is a naval architecture and marine engineering firm that provides support in ship acquisition management, production support, human systems integration, and ...

The creator of the world's largest cruise shipping company found his roots in the family cargo shipping business. As initially reported in the October 1999 edition of Maritime Reporter ...

Red Falcon, the first of two new passenger/vehicle ferries for Red Funnel, has just been commissioned on the Southampton to Isle of Wight route. The vessel is reportedly larger than the existing ...

IN undertaking the construction of a merchant marine, the United States has placed itself in competition with the rest of the world in ocean transportation. In some respects American ships are the ...

Marine Terminals Corp. (MTC) will operate Oakland's Seventh Street Marine Container Terminal for the next 10 years under a new management agreement that, reportedly for the first time, commits a ...

WITH the rapid development of overseas traffic to and from the port of New York there has come a stimulation of marine activities in every branch of business relating to the building, repair and ...

Shell Exploration & Production Co. and its partners, Amoco Corp. and Exxon Corp., have installed a tension leg platform (TLP) in 3,214 ft. of water. Ram-Powell established a new world's water ...

Hybrid hydrofoil monohulls (HYSWAS) combine hydrostatic and hydrodynamic lift, in effect, merging Swath and hydrofoil technology. Conceptual studies have been carried out in Germany for a 500-ton ...

Each U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) ruling that a vessel has undergone a substantial alteration or major conversion is a separate determination that can trigger a cascade of requirements leading to the ...

Working with French and Greek salvors, Smit Tak salvage teams recently brought two salvage operations to a successful conclusion. The 4,437-dwt LPG carrier Happy Fellow and the general cargo ...