Tag: New York

New York's Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the 'Save Our Waters' bill. This bill aims to prohibit the leasing of lands, including underwater lands, for offshore drilling and exploration, and drilling infrastructure in New York State waters. In January 2018, the US government proposed to make more than 90% of the total offshore acreage in the US available to oil and gas drilling.

A team of scientists at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering developed the first process to 3D print components of syntactic foam, extremely strong and lightweight composites used in vehicles, airplanes, and ships. This development is beneficial to submarines as they will be ale to survive at greater depths.

The Port of New York and New Jersey announced that cargo volumes for 2017 surpassed the existing annual cargo volume record set in 2015 by 5.3%. During 2017, the port handled 6,710,817 TEUs compared to 6,371,720 TEUs handled in 2015.

Danish giant Maersk Line joined the New York Shipping Exchange, the innovator of the first digital forward freight contract for global container shipping, as a founding member. In less than nine months, NYSHEX has added six of the top global ocean carriers as members, representing a combined 52% of the global capacity.

A ferry with 27 people aboard ran aground near Rockaway Inlet, New York, according to data provided by US Coast Guard. The 80-foot New York City Ferry, became stuck on a sandbar after departing from the Rockaway terminal, on Wednesday evening.

MGTIC, to be hosted at SUNY Maritime College, is a collaborative incubator fostering technology developments in the maritime space through entrepreneurial innovations bringing together maritime, technology and financial interests to accelerate tools for commercial growth.

The New York Shipping Exchange informed that German Hapag-Lloyd and French CMA-CGM joined the investment round, and announced additional investments from GE Ventures and Goldman Sachs, marking the completion of Exchange's Series A round of funding, totaling $13 million. 

APM Terminals increases Port Elizabeth investment plans to USD $200 million, in preparation for ultra large container ships. This investment will further enable global trade at the largest container terminal on the east coast of the United States.

EBDG has been selected by NYC DOT to design a new class of ferries that will operate between the boroughs of Staten Island and Manhattan

Ships, barges, ferries, and recreational boats in the busy New York Harbor will be able to navigate more safely thanks to an updated version of the harbor's nautical chart recently issued by NOAA that includes data gathered in the navigational response to the damage caused by Sandy in October 2012.