795 results found for 'Puerto Rico'

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  • US DoE sets aside $40M for open-water wave test site

    17 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    The US Department of Energy (DoE) has made available $40 million for one project that will design, permit, and construct an open-water, grid-connected, fully energetic national wave testing facility within US waters.

  • Eagle LNG and Crowley in Jacksonville bunkering milestone

    11 August 2020
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    Eagle LNG and Crowley recently marked the 100th bunkering event of liquefied natural gas to the latter’s ConRo ships from the Talleyrand facility located at the Port of Jacksonville. The two Crowley’s LNG-powered ConRo ships Taino and El Coqui are working on the Jacksonville, Florida to Puerto Rico route. Thw first vessels started working on […]

  • PHOTO: Damen DOP Dredge Pump Busy in Florida

    17 May 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    American contractor Cashman Dredging & Marine Contracting in September 2014 took delivery of the Damen DOP submersible dredge pump. Since then, the DOP450L high efficiency pump has completed many jobs throughout the USA, recently completing one in Puerto Rico. On its current job in Tampa, Florida, the DOP450L was integrated in a recently built hydraulic unloader, called “Kraken”. Here, […]

  • Spotted: The Isla Bella’s First Transit through the Panama Canal

    4 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    The 3,100 TEU Isla Bella, the world’s first LNG-powered container ship, transited through the Panama Canal for the first time on October 30. The 764 foot-long American-flagged boxship is the first of two Marlin Class container ships contracted by TOTE Maritime and built by General Dynamics NASSCO in partnership with the American Bureau of Shipping and […]

  • Crowley’s first LNG box ship fueled up

    12 April 2018
    Vessels

    Crowley Maritime’s first of two Commitment Class, combination container/roll-on roll-off (ConRo) ships, El Coquí completed its first LNG bunkering operation.

  • Passenger Ferry Grants Awarded

    3 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has announced the award and distribution of approximately $123.5 million for passenger ferry projects and ferry operators throughout the United States and selected territories. The funds will support existing ferry service on many of the nation’s waterways, establish new ferry service where it is needed most, and help to […]

  • Officials OK Money for Promote Proctor Creek Restoration

    18 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday announced that it is awarding over $179,000 to three organizations for the restoration of the Proctor Creek Watershed in Atlanta, Ga. Nationally, $2.1 million was awarded to 36 organizations in 17 states and Puerto Rico to help protect and restore urban waters, improve water quality, and support community […]

  • Alcatel-Lucent Delivers PCCS Subsea Link

    3 August 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) has completed the commissioning of the Pacific Caribbean Cable System (PCCS), a 6000km undersea cable linking Florida, in the United States, to Ecuador and which has now entered into commercial service. PCCS is owned by a group of telecommunications operators consisting of Cable & Wireless Communications, Setar, Telconet, Telefónica Global Solutions […]

  • Chinese University Team Wins RoboSub Competition

    16 August 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    This month high school and university teams from around the world took part at the 21st International RoboSub Competition at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific Transducer Evaluation Center. Harbin Engineering University (China) took this year’s top prize, while National University of Singapore and École de Technologie Supérieure (Canada) placed second and third, […]

  • MAN Diesel of Germany Wins LNG Engine Order

    6 December 2012
    Project & Tenders

    MAN Diesel & Turbo of Germany has confirmed the first order for its low-speed, dual-fuel ME-GI engine. American shipping company, TOTE, has signed a contract with its compatriot shipyard NASSCO in San Diego for the construction of two new state-of-the-art containerships with an option for three more vessels for primarily domestic services. The vessels will […]

  • TOTE Maritime Welcomes First LNG Boxship

    19 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    U.S. carrier TOTE Maritime on October 16 took delivery of the world’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) powered container ship, the 3,100 TEU Isla Bella, built by the San Diego-based General Dynamics NASSCO and delivered nearly two months ahead of schedule. As part of a two-ship contract signed in December 2012 with TOTE, the 764-foot long Marlin […]

  • Crowley’s Jacksonville LNG bunkering facility moves ahead

    9 March 2017

    Crowley Maritime and Eagle LNG Partners began construction of the LNG facility at Jaxport’s Talleyrand marine terminal in Jacksonville.

  • Totem Ocean, Keppel sign LNG conversion deal

    5 August 2015
    Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Totem Ocean Trailer Express has signed a contract with Keppel Offshore & Marine’s unit Keppel Shipyard for the conversion of the Midnight Sun to dual fuel LNG propulsion.  This is the world’s first major conversion of a large RO/RO vessel to LNG, Totem Ocean said in a statement. The work will begin in December and […]

  • Crowley’s first LNG-fueled ship launched (Video)

    22 March 2017
    Vessels

    Crowley Maritime Corp’s first LNG-fueled ConRo ship El Coquí was launched at the VT Halter Marine shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

  • TOTE Maritime Welcomes First LNG Boxship

    19 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    U.S. carrier TOTE Maritime on October 16 took delivery of the world’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) powered container ship, the 3,100 TEU Isla Bella, built by the San Diego-based General Dynamics NASSCO and delivered nearly two months ahead of schedule. As part of a two-ship contract signed in December 2012 with TOTE, the 764-foot long Marlin […]

  • Fairmount Tows Noble Paul Romano Rig from GoM to Egypt

    20 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    Fairmount Marine’s powerful tug Fairmount Sherpa has safely towed the  semi-submersible drilling rig Noble Paul Romano from the Gulf of Mexico to Egypt. The tow was over a distance of close to 8,000 miles. When contracted by Noble Drilling the Fairmount Sherpa just has completed the installation of FPSO Skarv, offshore Norway. Fairmount Sherpa was […]

  • US Congress Passes El Faro Maritime Safety Act

    28 September 2018
    Business & Finance

    US Congress passed a bill addressing maritime safety issues, raised by the El Faro sinking.

  • Eagle LNG bunkers Crowley’s Taino at JAXPort

    10 January 2019

    Eagle LNG, a unit of Ferus Natural Gas Fuels, said it has performed supplied liquefied natural gas fuel to Crowley’s newest ConRo ship, Taino at its Talleyrand LNG bunker station.

  • Jaxport: LNG storage tanks for Crowley’s bunkering facility set on foundations

    4 April 2017

    Jacksonville Port Authority (Jaxport) said that the two LNG storage tanks for Crowley Maritime’s shore-side bunkering facility on Talleyrand Marine Terminal have been set on their foundations.

  • VIDEO: NASSCO Launches Second LNG Boxship

    31 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    California-based shipbuilder General Dynamics NASSCO launched the second of two of the world’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) powered container ships built for TOTE at its San Diego shipyard on Saturday, August 29. The second 764-foot, Marlin Class boxship, named the Perla del Caribe, is a part of a two-ship contract NASSCO signed in December 2012 with TOTE. “To […]

  • Infographic: 20 Latin American and Caribbean Ports with Highest Container Throughput

    14 June 2016

    The movement of containerized cargo through Latin American and Caribbean ports grew 1.7 percent during 2015, according to Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean’s (ECLAC) ranking of container port throughput. ECLAC said these figures confirm two trends observed during the last years in the region – the slowdown of foreign trade shown by […]

  • JAX LNG small-scale facility starts operation

    24 May 2019

    JAX LNG facility located at Dames Point in Jacksonville, Florida, and built by the Pivotal LNG and NorthStar Midstream joint venture sprung into operation earlier this month. 

  • Excelerate, PREPA Ink Definitive Agreements for Aguirre GasPort Project

    8 April 2014
    Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Excelerate Energy and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) executed the definitive agreements for the procurement, construction and operation of the Aguirre Offshore GasPort terminal. The agreements include the provision of one of Excelerate’s floating storage and regasification units (FSRU) specifically designed to provide closed-loop regasification services, together with the design, construction and operation […]

  • TOTE contracts MAN for LNG engine conversions

    9 November 2017
    Project & Tenders, Vessels

    TOTE Maritime Alaska, a unit of TOTE contracted MAN PrimeServ, the MAN Diesel & Turbo’s after-sales division, to convert the North Star and Midnight Sun to dual-fuel operation on liquefied natural gas (LNG).

  • Three Die in Oceania Cruise Ship Fire

    12 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    Three people died, one crewmember and two contractors, in an engine room fire that broke out Thursday, December 11 on board the luxury cruise ship Insignia. The ship, owned by Oceania Cruises, was docked in Port Castries, St. Lucia when the fire broke out. As reported by the Cruise Critic quoting Oceania officials, three members […]