The U.S. Coast Guard authenticated the keels for future Coast Guard cutters Allen Thiele, Fred Permenter and Samuel Wilson on Friday in Bayou La Batre, Alabama.The cutters are the first three of 30 future Waterways Commerce Cutters (WCCs) that will replace the Coast Guard’s legacy inland tender fleet.
Boston-based Blue Water Autonomy, a company designing and producing unmanned ships for the U.S. Navy, has formed an Advisory Board whose members include:• RADM (ret.) Tom Anderson, former Program Executive Officer, Ships (PEO Ships)• Stephen Rodriguez, Chairman of Blue Forge Alliance & dual-use investor• Michael Stewart, former Director
US ship agency company T. Parker Host (HOST) has acquired Impala Terminals Burnside (Impala Burnside), a bulk facility located in Burnside, LA, at Mile Marker 169 on the East Bank of the Lower Mississippi River.Effective immediately, the site will be renamed Ascension Bulk Terminal.