Riverview Equipment has sold its inland pusher tug "Cassie Lind" to private interests for re-powering and refurbishment to be further employed in the new Owner’s inland service.

Marcon International is pleased to announce the long term bareboat charter of the AHTS "Bremen Hunter" from her German owner/operators to Latin American charterers.

It has been five and a half years since the official ending of the Great Recession caused by the subprime mortgage crisis and collapse of the housing bubble. While that recession is officially over, the recovery has been unbalanced, slow, uneven, uncertain, and has earned many more adjectives than can be printed here. Most of us still feel its effects.

Of 12,884 vessels and 3,867 barges tracked by Marcon, 3,208 are supply and tug supply boats, with 253 officially on the market for sale.

Of the 12,884 vessels and 3,867 barges Marcon tracks, 1,138 are crew, fast supply & pilot boats with 212 officially on the market for sale, plus we have 45 boats available for charter worldwide.

Of the 12,884 vessels (excluding barges) Marcon currently tracks, 686 are inland river pushboats with 76 officially on the market for sale (62 U.S. flag and 14 foreign flag).

Of the 3,785 barges and 12,730 vessels we currently track, 707 are tank barges with 32 inland and 35 ocean or coastal barges officially on the market for sale. Nine of the 32 inland barges are 10 years of age or less.

Following is a breakdown of available anchor handling coastal, ocean and harbor tugs. Separate reports available on inland river pushboats and anchor handling tug supply vessels.

Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - Dynamic positioning system failures on offshore supply vessels engaged in oil and gas operations in the U.S. outer continental shelf.

Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - Potential market implications of outage at ExxonMobil’s Torrance, California refinery.

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - No surprise to anyone, monthly average bunker prices continued their downward spiral in January, ranging from a decrease of 3.6% in Fujairah to 17.08% in Rotterdam. For the second month in a row, we had to lower our graph axis points as prices had literally fallen off our graph.

Friday, February 06, 2015 - The average U.S. offshore rig count for January 2015 was 53, down six from the 59 that were counted in December 2014 and down five from the 58 that were counted in January 2014.

This has been a good month for sales of crewboats and deck barges in the U.S. Foss Maritime Company has sold its U.S. flag crewboat "Dorothy L. Sylvester" to U.S. Water Taxi Inc. of San Pedro.

After completion of a multi-year charter supporting bridge re-construction work, Riverview Equipment sold their U.S. flag crew boat "Stella Lind" to Westar Marine Services of San Francisco.

Private U.S. West Coast buyers have purchased the former Google barge "JMC 262" from Cashman Equipment Corp.

Thursday, January 15, 2015 - This edition of the ShortTerm Energy Outlook is the first to include forecasts for 2016.