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WorkBoat Cover image March 1973. WorkBoat photo

WorkBoat Looks Back: March 1963, 1973, 1983

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Bollinger is using a proven, in-service parent craft design based on the Damen Stan Patrol Boat 4708. Bollinger Shipyards photo

Bollinger delivers 52nd fast response cutter to Coast Guard

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The USMHP seeks to increase the use of America’s navigable waterways, especially where water-based transport is the most efficient, effective, and sustainable option. Patrick Loch, Corps of Engineers photo

Over $12 million available for U.S. Marine Highway Program

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85'x26'x12' aluminum firefighting, rescue, and patrol boat built by MetalCraft, operates in the waters off Kuwait. MetalCraft Marine photo.

Emergency response vessels have many responsibilities

Ken Hocke

Track of the Miss Mollye D, shown in yellow, as it pushed the tow before the striking. Photo is not from the time of the striking. Vessels shown moored along the northern bank are typical for the waterway. Track of the Miss Mollye D, shown in yellow, as it pushed the tow before the striking. Photo is not from the time of the striking. Vessels shown moored along the northern bank are typical for the waterway. Source: Google Earth; Annotated by NTSB

Towboat pilot didn’t report allision with bridge in Louisiana, NTSB says

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Marine Group Boat Works graduates 30 from marine welding certification program

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The Department of Interior's proposed Gulf of Mexico lease sale announced today includes a 102,480-acre area offshore Lake Charles, La., and two areas offshore Galveston, Texas, one comprising 102,480 acres and the other 96,786 acres. BOEM graphic

BOEM proposes first Gulf of Mexico offshore wind lease sale

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NOAA Custom Chart is a web-based application that can generate a paper nautical chart. Image from NOAA web page

NOAA releases its Custom Chart version 2.0 to the public

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This is the second Navy ship named after the coastal Florida city — Apalachicola — both ships were built in Mobile, Ala. Austal USA photo

Austal USA delivers fast transport vessel to Navy

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Carolyn Skayes near the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel in November 2021. Google Earth photo, Annotated by NTSB

Lack of spotter leads to crane topping off barge, NTSB says

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These adjustments are intended to maintain the deterrent effect of civil penalties and to further the policy goals of the underlying statutes. Nabors Industries photo

BOEM adjusts its monetary penalties for inflation

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The passenger vessel Natchez was moored and out of service when a fire broke out on May 3, 2022. NTSB photo

NTSB determines cause of fire aboard New Orleans passenger vessel

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BOEM seeks comment on draft EIS for Massachusetts offshore wind project

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