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Austal USA on Aug. 5 launched the future USS Pierre (LCS 38), the last ship of the Navy’s Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship program. Austal USA will settle fraud charges related to the LCS program for $24 million. Austal USA photo.

Austal pleads guilty, agrees to $24 million to settle fraud charges

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Washington ports in 2022 handled the import and export of 15.6 billion tons of containerized cargo and 55.5 billion tons of non-containerized cargo worth $36.5 billion. Port of Seattle photo.

Washington ports to receive electrification grants

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Operations disrupted after Port of Seattle cyberattack

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Sea scallops as seen in a drop camera survey image by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth School for Marine Science and Technology. SMAST image via Northeast Fisheries Science Center.

New study looks to how wind projects will change ocean

Kirk Moore

Great Lakes Dock and Dredge Co. photo.

GLDD secures $65.8M contract for Mobile harbor dredging and expansion

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32-footer for Jacksonville (Fla.) Fire Rescue. MetalCraft Marine photo.

Fireboats typically powered by outboards are much in demand

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Design of BP's Kaskida Floating Production Unit in Gulf of Mexico. Exmar Offshore photo.

Audubon secures topside design contract for bp’s Kaskida project in gulf

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Donjon Marine photo.

Donjon Marine wins $32.3M Newark Bay dredging contract

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Wärtsilä has signed a contract with Norwegian shipowner Eidesvik to supply the equipment for the ammonia conversion of the offshore platform supply vessel Viking Energy. Peter Tubaas/Vestland Media/Wärtsilä.

Wärtsilä, Eidesvik converting platform supply vessel to ammonia

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A new feasibility study for a Chesapeake Bay ferry system imagines possibilities for linking communities with vessels from 49 passenger capacity up to 149 seats. Chesapeake Bay Ferry Consortium image.

Chesapeake Bay ferry system proposed

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Fragments from. Vineyard Wind's AW38 turbine blade failure floated ashore from Nantucket to Cape Cod and Block Island. Green Oceans via Facebook.

Offshore wind’s first ‘spill’

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