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On May 5th, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the initial steps in the development of programs that will invest $4 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act in US port infrastructure while reducing air pollution. 

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) announced $20.8 million in grant awards to 27 small shipyards in 20 states through the Small Shipyard Grant Program.

TOTE Services and Philly Shipyard organized a keel laying ceremony earlier this week for the third of five training vessels for America’s state maritime academies.

On May 3 at approximately 6:20 a.m. local time, Panama-flagged oil tanker Niovi was seized by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) while transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran has seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman while it was in transit in international waters, the United States Navy said on Thursday.

Proman Stena Bulk, the joint venture between tanker company Stena Bulk and methanol producer Proman, has today announced the successful completion of the first ever barge-to-ship methanol bunkering on the US Gulf Coast.

Platypus Marine announced this week that it has signed a Letter of Intent with Damen Shipyards for the building of a Fast Crew Supply (FCS) vessel, compliant with the Jones Act, to serve the offshore wind industry in the United States. 

KBR announced earlier this week that its K-GreeN technology has been selected by Avina Clean Hydrogen for its green ammonia project in the U.S.

SAFE Boats International introduced earlier this week the autonomous hydrographic survey vessel, Merlin. The 23-meter semi-displacement monohull design was developed in collaboration with Mythos AI, Echo81, and World Marine Design.

The World Shipping Council issued a statement earlier this week to highlight that the Shipping Act is a useful tool but the amendments under the new U.S. law H.R. 1696, will disable vessel sharing. The Ocean Shipping Antitrust Enforcement Act, introduced in 2022, amend title 46, United States Code, to repeal certain antitrust exemptions for ocean common carriers.