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Great Lakes Dredge & Dock is building the first U.S.-flagged Jones Act-compliant, inclined fallpipe vessel for subsea rock installation. The 461'x112' vessel will service the U.S. offshore wind energy industry. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock rendering

Great Lakes Dredge awarded third wind rock installation contract

WorkBoat Staff

An orca surfaces as a Seattle ferry passes through Elliott Bay off Seattle. Washington State’s Quiet Sound program is working to cut noise pollution, including that of large ships, in orca habitats like the Salish Sea. NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Cen

Quiet Sound says more vessels joining Puget Sound slowdown

WorkBoat Staff

The first of 12 turbines to be built at the South Fork Wind site 35 miles off Long Island, N.Y., began delivering power Dec. 6. Ørsted video image.

First power from South Fork Wind project off New York

WorkBoat Staff

A rendering of the new NOAA marine operations center building planned for Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island. Burns & McDonnell image.

Navy to build $146.7 million NOAA marine operations center in Rhode Island

WorkBoat Staff

An Army maneuver support vessel. Photo: Rae Higgins, U.S. Army Program Executive Office Combat Support & Combat Service Support

Army watercraft officials seek maritime industry insight at WorkBoat Show

Benjamin Hayden

Viewpoints

NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad will be a featured expert at the COP 28 United Nations Climate Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 30 through Dec. 12, 2023. (Image credit: NOAA)

Despite the climate crisis, ‘there is hope’

Change is needed at the Coast Guard

U.S. Coast Guard

AmaWaterways photo

Always have a Plan B and more

G. Allen Brooks

The insurance market is concerned about the rising frequency and severity of natural catastrophes. NOAA image

Insurance market concerns still loom in 2024

Dan Bookham

Viewing the central corridor of the exhibition floor at the 2022 International WorkBoat Show. Photo by Doug Stewart.

More news at the WorkBoat Show

Ken Hocke

Shipbuilding

An Army maneuver support vessel. Photo: Rae Higgins, U.S. Army Program Executive Office Combat Support & Combat Service Support

Army watercraft officials seek maritime industry insight at WorkBoat Show

Benjamin Hayden

The Saildrone Surveyor design completed a 2,250-mile maiden voyage from San Francisco to Hawaii in 2021. Saildrone photo.

Saildrone ABS certification for a new kind of workboat

Kirk Moore

Leigh Baker, MSC’s director, Office of Small Business Command at the 2023 International Workboat Show. Doug Stewart photos.

Looking to do business with the Military Sealift Command?

Ken Hocke

Glosten designed the Seaway Trident tug, one of ten vessels honored as this year’s most significant boats at the International WorkBoat Show. Glosten photo.

Glosten design named one of WorkBoat's 10 Significant Boats

Matt Collins

Eastern Shipbuilding Group is building four offshore patrol cutters for the Coast Guard. Doug Stewart photo

Shipyard challenges discussed at the WorkBoat Show

Ken Hocke

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Great Lakes Dredge & Dock is building the first U.S.-flagged Jones Act-compliant, inclined fallpipe vessel for subsea rock installation. The 461'x112' vessel will service the U.S. offshore wind energy industry. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock rendering

Great Lakes Dredge awarded third wind rock installation contract

WorkBoat Staff

The first of 12 turbines to be built at the South Fork Wind site 35 miles off Long Island, N.Y., began delivering power Dec. 6. Ørsted video image.

First power from South Fork Wind project off New York

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New York State Energy Research and Development Authority photo.

Gulf operators see offshore wind slowing but not stopping

Kirk Moore

A right whale female named Fission by scientists with an unnamed juvenile male whale is shown during an aerial survey over southern New England waters in March 2023. New England Aquarium photo/NOAA research permit #25739.

NOAA experts: Listen early for whales before wind project work

Kirk Moore

The installation vessel Orion began setting the first of 62 turbine towers for the Vineyard Wind energy project off southern Massachusetts. Vineyard Wind image.

Congress looks to boost job training for offshore wind industry

Pamela Glass

Offshore

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock is building the first U.S.-flagged Jones Act-compliant, inclined fallpipe vessel for subsea rock installation. The 461'x112' vessel will service the U.S. offshore wind energy industry. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock rendering

Great Lakes Dredge awarded third wind rock installation contract

WorkBoat Staff

The first of 12 turbines to be built at the South Fork Wind site 35 miles off Long Island, N.Y., began delivering power Dec. 6. Ørsted video image.

First power from South Fork Wind project off New York

WorkBoat Staff

A right whale female named Fission by scientists with an unnamed juvenile male whale is shown during an aerial survey over southern New England waters in March 2023. New England Aquarium photo/NOAA research permit #25739.

NOAA experts: Listen early for whales before wind project work

Kirk Moore

Deepwater-Platform-GOM-Exxon — An ExxonMobil Gulf of Mexico deepwater platform. ExxonMobil photo

Gulf oil and gas lease sale rescheduled again

WorkBoat Staff

The BMS 1888 provides a mobile pipe mill facility that can be scaled to meet the requirements of any specific project, anywhere on the coast. Baker Marine Solutions rendering

Baker Marine unveils new concept design for mobile pipe mill barge for offshore wind

WorkBoat Staff

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