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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

WorkBoat Staff

A dead humpback whale is re-positioned to conduct a necropsy at Lido Beach on Long Island, N.Y., Jan. 31, 2023. AMSEAS photo.

After another whale stranding, New Jersey beach mayors, congressman join calls for wind power moratorium

Kirk Moore

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

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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

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One set of new rules targets the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y., in response to an allegation by a female cadet who said she was sexually assaulted by her supervisor during her Sea Year training in 2019. USMMA photo

Cracking down on sexual harassment and assault

Pamela Glass

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

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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

WorkBoat Staff

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

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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

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Avangrid's Commonwealth Wind is among several offshore turbine arrays proposed off Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Commonwealth Wind graphic.

Avangrid moves to pull out of Massachusetts power agreements

Kirk Moore

Offshore wind partners Equinor and BP plan the Empire Wind (left) and Beacon Wind projects. Equinor graphic.

Equinor/BP, Leading Light bid into New York offshore wind solicitation

Kirk Moore