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Everett Ship Repair with M/V National Geographic Venture in the Faithful Servant drydock. Ice Cap Holding photo

Nichols Brothers and Everett Ship Repair stay busy with passenger vessels

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The MV Tustumena is designed to carry 160 passengers and has a vehicle capacity of 680 linear feet, which is equal to approximately 34 twenty-foot vehicles. Alaska Marine Highway System photo

$384 million in grants available to modernize ferry services

The engineering department oversaw major overhauls on the cutter’s controllable pitch propeller system, speed reducers, rudders, and boilers, along with inspections of fuel, sewage, and water tanks. U.S. Coast Guard photo

U.S. Coast Guard cutter returns to Alaska following repairs

Designed in-house by the Metal Shark engineering team and built at the company’s Jeanerette, La., production facility, the 47'x12' twin-diesel waterjet-powered Triumph VII is now in service. Metal Shark photo

Metal Shark delivers 47' crewboat to Oregon

In recent weeks, the U.S. Coast Guard has continued to monitor a Russian vessel, believed to be an intelligence gathering ship, off the coast of the Hawaiian Islands. The Coast Guard continues to coordinate with Department of Defense partners, providing updates to foreign vessel movements and activities and to appropriately meet presence with presence to encourage international maritime norms. U.S. Coast Guard District 14 Hawaii Pacific image from video

Coast Guard tracking Russian vessel off Hawaiian coast

New SCI chaplain, the reverend Christine Brunson, was installed in a ceremony at the Houston International Seafarers’ Center in the Port of Houston on Friday, Jan. 27. SCI’s senior chaplain for Ministry on the River. Rev. Thomas Rhoades, presided over the ceremony. Dana Blume, HISC Director, photo

Rev. Christine Brunson underway as SCI's new Houston-based chaplain

The 27-meter (88'6") vessel was designed for optimal operational efficiency across a wide range of loading conditions. BMT rendering

Strategic Marine to build four hybrid CTVs

The NY Waterway ferry Thomas Jefferson on the Hudson River in New York. Photo by Kirk Moore

NY Waterways to convert ferry engines from diesel to hybrid propulsion

A planned terminal at Pope's Island in New Bedford Harbor would support six crew transfer vessels for the Vineyard Wind offshore energy project. Vineyard Wind rendering.

Quinn Fisheries to host Vineyard Wind CTV terminal in New Bedford