The Port Journal

An OSV carrying a tugboat on deck has gone aground outside the bay at Luperon, a popular sailing yacht destination on the north side of the Dominican Republic. The vessel is the ENE Vision (IMO 9203459), a 1998-built OSV of about 1,800 dwt. It was formerly known as AT Crossfire, and was sold by previous […]

Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new autonomous unmanned vessel (AUV) class designed for long endurance, named Lamprey in a nod to its unique ability to hitch a ride on vessel hulls. Lamprey is intended to fill a variety of mission sets for the Navy. The clearest application in peacetime is for ISR purposes, as small […]

Canadian naval architecture firm Robert Allan Ltd has been selected to design a new ship assist tug for Harbor Docking and Towing of Lake Charles, Louisiana. The completed tug will have an LOA of 92 feet (28 metres), a moulded beam of 40 feet (12 metres), a moulded depth of 17 feet (5.2 metres), and […]

NYK invests in unmanned systems startup Oceanic Constellations

The Philippine Coast Guard is monitoring the situation as efforts are underway to refloat a tanker that went ashore in the environmentally sensitive Oriental Mindoro region, a province in the western Philippines south of Manila. They are reporting that the 18 crewmembers aboard the vessel are safe and there have been no reports of pollution […]

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities has initiated the tender process for a new vessel to replace an existing Ro-Pax ferry being operated as part of the Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS). The selected bidder will build a ferry to replace the 4,529GT As a feelingwhich was built in 1964. Invitations to bid […]

Carnival Cruise Line’s Australia operations have become the target of a campaign by the Maritime Union of Australia (NMU), which this week resulted in an unscheduled inspection by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA). The cruise line is calling the MNU’s actions an effort to get attention and launch a membership drive, while the union […]

Thailand has organized an Incident Command Center and reports it is making progress in the efforts to assess and manage the situation after the cargo ship Sealloyd Arc sank on Saturday night, February 7, near a popular tourist destination. While the ship is leaking oil, so far it has not approached shore, and they report […]

Iran has a standard playbook when dealing with a foreign policy crisis, a playbook that used to work well until its adversaries figured it out. The playbook involves portraying the political leadership in Tehran as split between hardliners adopting a maximalist, no-concession position and ‘reformists’ who say that they are in favor of negotiations and […]

Rough surface conditions are delaying the salvage response to the grounding of a tank barge at the entrance to San Juan’s harbor, Puerto Rico’s governor told local media on Tuesday. On Monday, the fuel barge Defiant grounded on the headland at the port’s harbor entrance, just below Castillo San Felipe del Morro (better known as […]