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Pain at the pump as diesel costs skyrocket. Stock Photo.

Fuel prices set new record high

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (right) receives Maritime Leadership Award from Shipbuilders Council of America president Matthew Paxton (center) and chairman of the SCA, Ben Bordelon. Shipbuilders Council of America photo

Shipbuilders honor Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski

The steel-cutting ceremony for the 346' trailing suction hopper dredge Galveston Island in 2021. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock announced this week that it had exercised an option to build a sistership. Conrad Shipyard photo

Conrad Shipyard to build second dredge for Great Lakes

The parallel hybrid system offers all-electric propulsion capabilities, power regeneration, and electric boost for high power performance when needed. Senesco Marine rendering

Senesco awarded contract to build electric hybrid vessel for Maine

The Coast Guard’s Atlantic Strike Team assisted BSEE in completing the refurbishment of BSEE's National Oil Spill Response Research and Renewable Energy Test Facility in Leonardo, N.J., known as Ohmsett, by refilling the 667-foot wave tank, the largest of its kind in North America, with seawater from the nearby Sandy Hook Bay — a three-day operation that ended on March 24, 2022. BSEE screen shot

Oil spill testing facility receives major facelift

Ship’s sponsor Christina Calhoun Zubowicz breaks a bottle of sparkling wine on the bow of the National Security Cutter Calhoun, named for her grandfather. Ingalls Shipbuilding photo

Ingalls Shipbuilding christens another national security cutter

Transocean owns or has partial ownership interests in and operates a fleet of 37 mobile offshore drilling units, consisting of 27 ultra-deepwater floaters and 10 harsh environment floaters. Transocean web page photo

Transocean signs $181 million extension for harsh environment semisubmersible

A 46' towing vessel, Catherine, and deck barge, Mobro 130, ran aground and suffered a hull breach resulting in a ruptured fuel tank in the Okeechobee Waterway near Clewiston, Fla., June 4, 2022. There are no pollution concerns. U.S. Coast Guard photo

Tow runs aground in Florida’s Okeechobee Waterway

La Dolce Vita on fire shortly after passengers and crew abandoned the vessel (left) and the yacht afire shortly after sunset on March 16, 2021 (right). La Dolce Vita captain’s photo

Electrical fire destroys yacht, NTSB says

The Premiere Explorer of Venice, La., stands by near a controlled burn of spilled oil from in the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico June 9. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer First Class John Masson.

BSEE conducts unannounced oil spill response inspections in Gulf