Edison Chouest building offshore wind vessel at Houma yard
Edison Chouest Offshore is marking another shipbuilding milestone for the emerging U.S. offshore wind sector, reports Maritime Executive. The company, along with partners Equinor...
Bollinger Shipyards plans to close its operations in New Orleans
Bollinger Shipyards is closing its operations in New Orleans and plans to shift the work to its larger facilities on the Mississippi Gulf Coast,...
Coastal Cargo shuts down, lays off workforce at Port NOLA
After more than three decades, a New Orleans-based stevedoring company is shutting down operations at the Port of New Orleans and has laid off...
Corps of Engineers partners with DOTD, Port of Iberia to widen, deepen waterway
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced last week that it has signed a partnering agreement with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development...
Louisiana begins negotiating three bids for wind farm projects
Foreign developers have already made proposals to establish wind farms in the Gulf of Mexico that would be managed by Louisiana, reports Governing.com. The...
Company eyeing Louisiana offshore wind invests in floating drydock
Crowley Wind Services of Jacksonville, Fla. announced last week that it has invested in Tugdock, developers of the world’s first road-transportable floating drydock for...
Updated coastal plan calls for $50 billion in levee, restoration projects
The Louisiana House of Representatives unanimously approved the state’s updated coastal master plan last week, paving the way for $50 billion worth of wetland restoration...
Ship launch marks milestone in Bollinger’s construction of oceanographic research vessels
The R/V Taani, a regional class research vessel, was floated for the first time last week using a drydock at Bollinger Shipyards in Houma....
Louisiana’s $50B coastal plan heads toward approval
Louisiana’s most recent plan to restore and protect its coast—at a cost of $50 billion—advanced last week through the House Committee on Natural Resources...
Avondale deal delayed again as Port of South Louisiana studies terms
The Port of South Louisiana has again delayed the closing period for its $445 million deal to buy the former Avondale Shipyard site, after...
