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The 2025 International WorkBoat Show is scheduled for December 3-5, 2025, at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Will higher oil prices spur higher industry spending?

G. Allen Brooks

In December, Eastern Shipbuilding Group delivered the 302′ car and passenger ferry Long Island. Eastern Shipbuilding photo.

WorkBoat to attend Passenger Vessel Association's MariTrends

Ben Hayden

Matt Nichols, 77, has retired from the company that bears the family name. Nichols Bros Boat Builders photo.

Final Nichols brother bids farewell to family shipyard legacy

Bruce Buls

The Coast Guard is refurbishing its 47' lifeboats, extending their operational lifespan by several more years. Scott Sanders photo.

Driver’s Ed: US Coast Guard lifeboat pilots train in extreme conditions

Capt. Arnie Hammerman

America’s River Roots (Formerly called Tall Stacks) is scheduled for Oct. 8-12, 2025, in Cincinnati. America’s River Roots photo.

Celebrating our inland rivers heritage

Capt. Alan Bernstein

The Mr. Brian is the sixth ASD tractor tug built for Bisso Towboat in the past nine years by Main Iron Works. In fact, all 10 of the company's tractor tugs were built at the shipyard. Bisso Towboat photo.

On board Bisso Towboat’s newest tractor tug Mr. Brian

Ken Hocke

Bad faith — I don’t think my claim was handled properly

Tim Akpinar

Rear Admiral Arguin, the Assistant Commandant for Prevention Policy providing the New Mariner Oath at the 2024 Tall Ships America Conference held at the Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate Studies (MITAGS). MM-SEAS USCG Licensing Software photo.

Coast Guard eliminates oath for new mariners

Nate Gilman

The New England Fishermen's Stewardship Association organized a protest Aug. 25 near the site of Vineyard Wind's crippled AW38 turbine southwest of Nantucket, Mass. NEFSA photo.

Can Trump kill offshore wind?

Kirk Moore

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An offshore slowdown is not the worst outcome

G. Allen Brooks

Ken Hocke photo.

Business income insurance coverage

Chris Richmond

WorkBoat file photo.

Leave your troubles at the dock - Part II

Joel Milton

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Lower Miss dry-cargo imports fall 12.5%

Ken Hocke