DECEMBER 14, 2018 — Now more than ever, vessel operators and charterers are leveraging smart technology and data analytics to reveal operational efficiencies, comply with environmental regulations, and better their bottom lines. This is nothing new to customers of Fueltrax . More than a decade ago, Fueltrax began as a project to help Kirby Inland Marine more accurately measure fuel consumption to improve the efficiency of their vessels.

Today, Fueltrax is the leading fuel management solution, installed on over 500 vessels operating worldwide — ranging

DECEMBER 14, 2018 — The San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) has officially opened its new Ron Cowan Central Bay Maintenance and Operations Facility in Alameda.

The $50 million facility serves as an operations and maintenance hub for WETA's San Francisco Bay Ferry fleet serving Alameda, Oakland, Harbor Bay, San Francisco and South San Francisco. The project is the first new major construction at the former Naval Air Station Alameda.

The facility was built to streamline WETA's ferry service operation, make routine

DECEMBER 14, 2018 — The San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) has officially opened its new Ron Cowan Central Bay Maintenance and Operations Facility in Alameda.

The $50 million facility serves as an operations and maintenance hub for WETA's San Francisco Bay Ferry fleet serving Alameda, Oakland, Harbor Bay, San Francisco and South San Francisco. The project is the first new major construction at the former Naval Air Station Alameda.

The facility was built to streamline WETA's ferry service operation, make routine

DECEMBER 14, 2018 — Sweden's Thun Tankers is set to name its latest gas fueled tanker Thun Evolve in a ceremony to be held in at the Ferus Smit shipyard in Groningen, Netherlands, on Saturday.

Main propulsion power will be provided by a 2,999 kW Wärtsilä 6L34DF main engine.

" Thun Evolve has been built to the latest design to meet and exceed current and upcoming environmental regulations. Thun Evolve meets high standards of safety, efficiency with a very low environmental impact and can be

DECEMBER 14, 2018 — Spurred by demand for its U.S. Coast Guard Third Party Organization (TPO) services, Decatur Marine Audit & Survey recently announced it would expand its operations with the opening of a new office location in New Orleans.

The new office will be headed by Kevin Wakefield (photo inset), who was promoted to Operations Manager. Wakefield began his career for Decatur Marine in TSMS Operations.

“Kevin’s offshore and inland waterway experience, as well as his ongoing engagement with the U.S. tug and towboat

DECEMBER 14, 2018 — Miami, FL, headquartered World Fuel Services (WFS) says that, starting mid-January, a new U.S. based physical bunker supply operation will be operational in the Columbia River, servicing Portland (OR), Vancouver (WA), Kalama (WA), Longview (WA), Rainier (OR), and Astoria (OR).

By partnering with Harley Marine companies Pacific Terminal Services and Olympic Tug and Barge, WFS will offer RMG 380 and MGO 0.1% sulfur fuel by dual product barge at this key Pacific Northwest Coast location.

"Our strategic approach to marine fuel

DECEMBER 14, 2018 — SeaTwirl, a Swedish company developing an innovative vertical axis wind turbine, had two items of good news on the funding front to report this week.

On Wednesday, the company said that it had joined the Ocean Energy Scale-Up Alliance (OESA), giving it access to consultancy services as well as funding of EUR 433,952 (about $493,000).

OESA, which is coordinated by the Dutch Marine Energy Center, has been granted funding from the EU Interreg North Sea Region development fund for a three-year

DECEMBER 14, 2018 — A thumb drive containing videos were given to the Coast Guard by a crew member of Navios Tankers Management-managed ship has led to Navimax Corporation, incorporated in the Marshall Islands with its main offices in Greece, being hit with a $2,000,000 fine for violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships and obstructing a Coast Guard investigation.

The Department of Justice says that according to court documents and statements made in court, Navimax operated the Nave Cielo , a 750-foot long

DECEMBER 13, 2018 — The American Waterways Operators has released best practices to help the American tugboat, towboat and barge industry in identifying and managing cyber risks and detecting and responding to cyber attacks or accidents.

The document, Cyber Risk Management: Best Practices for the Towing Industry, Version 1.0, is the product of a year-long initiative undertaken by the Cyber Risk Management Quality Action Team, a working group of the Coast Guard-AWO Safety Partnership, the oldest public-private partnership between the U.S. Coast Guard and its