Americas News

A new fleet of diesel/battery electric pushboats currently being built for Hidrovias do Brasil at the Belov Engenharia Shipyard will be providing terminal assistance on the Amazon River system.

A total of 1,269,605 metric tonnes (mt) of marine fuel was sold in Panama during the first three months of the year – 7.2% down on the 1,368,318 mt that were sold in the same period in 2020.

The pressure on the Biden Administration to give a clear timeline and guidance on the resumption of the cruise industry is growing.

Crowley Shipping and Shell Trading (US) Company (STUSCO) recently began using low carbon biofuel to power the Crowley tugboat Veteran, a ship assist and escort tug serving the Bay of San Francisco.

Following feedback from shipping companies and associations, including the International Chamber of Shipping and the European Community Shipowners’ Association, the Panama Canal is delaying a price increase in transit reservation fees from 15 April to 1 June.

State governor Ron DeSantis has announced that Florida is suing the Biden Administration in a bid to overturn the Conditional Sailing Order enacted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is to award up to $35 million for a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) programme focused on developing technologies to reduce methane emissions in the oil, gas, and coal industries.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says that the erratic steering of a supply vessel led to a 2019 collision resulting in more than 6,000 gallons of diesel oil being dumped into the Sabine Pass channel.

Puget LNG is the latest LNG supplier to join marine LNG industry coalition SEA-LNG.

Pilot LNG, the developer of the Galveston LNG Bunker Port project, has awarded the Front-End Engineering Development (FEED) contract for the project’s floating LNG unit to Wison Offshore & Marine (Wison).