America’s Shipyards Are Working — and Winning

By VOICES Staff. Across the United States, the shipbuilding industry is booming.  According to WorkBoat’s 2024 Construction Survey, more than 925 vessels were either delivered, under construction, or on order in the past year alone. That includes everything from tugboats and training ships to advanced subsea installation vessels and LNG-ready containerships. Recent milestones in Pennsylvania […]

A Cleaner Fleet Starts at the Shipyard

A Western Lake Erie harmful algal bloom from September 26, 2017. The scum shown here near downtown Toledo stretched all the way to Lake Ontario. This photo is from Landsat-8 (CREDIT: NASA/USGS).

By VOICES Staff. As America charts a course toward building, crewing and sailing more U.S. ships, maritime innovators are stepping up to meet the need to protect our inland waterways, Great Lakes and ocean territory. Among them is  Florida-based Seascour, a company revolutionizing one of the most overlooked, and potentially environmentally harmful, aspects of ship […]

For the first time since the Key Bridge collapse, oysters are being planted nearby

Frits de Goede, operations manager at Ports America Chesapeake, dumps oysters overboard to plant them in the Patapsco River, one of the first Chesapeake Bay Foundation plantings since the collapse of the Key Bridge. (Photo by Christine Condon/ Maryland Matters)

by Christine Condon, Maryland Matters. Ben Carver, a boat captain for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, assumed the worst. When Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed — killing six construction workers and sending thousands of tons of concrete and steel hurtling into the Patapsco River — Carver feared that the foundation’s nearby oyster reef would be […]

Feds, State Close in on Building New Island in the Chesapeake Bay

Water laps fragments of James Island in the Chesapeake Bay in September 2020. Dave Harp / The Bay Journal

By Jeremy Cox, The Bay Journal. James Island is gone. Long live James Island. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Maryland Port Administration are finalizing their proposal to resurrect an island that has vanished beneath the waves of the Chesapeake Bay. If all goes according to plan, James Island will convert more than 2,000 […]

How U.S. Maritime Drives Offshore Wind Development

Foss Maritime's Barges are specially designed to transport offshore wind turbines, increasing project capacity

By Jennifer Carpenter and Anne Reynolds.   Attention to offshore wind often focuses on the turbines themselves—how many are installed and how many gigawatts of power are online. But the real story is that the heartland of America is building vessels and driving investment across the U.S., and not just on the East Coast.  Offshore […]

Navigating the Future: Electric Vehicles Aren’t the Only Answer

By David Tyler, Co-Founder & Director of Artemis Technologies.  2025 is the year of ambitious sustainability goals, with urban jungles like New York City prioritizing dollars spent towards initiatives that actively make a positive climate impact. Transportation accounts for nearly 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and while some ground has been made towards implementing […]

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Announces Matson Partnership to Protect Whales.

A WHOI-developed Whale Detection Camera is mounted on the deck of the Manulani. Matson vessels Manoa and Matson Kodiak have also installed WHOI’s Whale Detection Cameras to help reduce vessel strikes and gather the real-world use data WHOI needs for its research and continued technology development. (Image courtesy: Dan Zitterbart, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

By Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Ship-mounted camera systems provide real-time detection and increased response time, can reduce the number of whales killed by vessel strikes Woods Hole, Mass. (Oct. 15, 2024) – Vessel strikes and entanglement are some of the leading causes of injury and death to marine animals such as whales. Increasingly urbanized waterways, […]

Cleaning Up America’s Ports

By Charlie Miller.  The maritime industry is increasingly looking for more ways to achieve greater sustainability. While shipping by America’s inland and coastal waterways is extremely efficient, particularly compared to other modes of transportation, there is renewed attention to how ports can work to reduce emissions.  As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) puts it: […]