Mobile

The Alabama State Port Authority celebrated the official launch May 21 of the construction phase of the project to deepen and widen the Mobile Ship Channel and improve the lower… Read More

Blakeley BoatWorks (BBW), the shipbuilding subsidiary of Cooper/T. Smith, has built and delivered an EPA Tier 4-compliant towing vessel to sister company Cooper Marine & Timberlands (CMT). The mv. Gretchen… Read More

Cooper Marine & Timberlands Corporation (CMT), a part of the Cooper Group of companies based in Mobile, Ala., recently took delivery of the first of two vessels from Blakeley BoatWorks,… Read More

Despite months of restrictions related to COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, the maritime industry has soldiered on, transporting the cargoes that feed and fuel the nation and… Read More

Mobile Engineer District Commander Col. Sebastien Joly and John Driscoll, director and CEO of the Alabama State Port Authority, met June 17 to sign the project partnership agreement (PPE) for… Read More

The Alabama State Port Authority announced completion March 20 of a 400-foot extension to the APM Terminals Mobile container terminal. The extension, part of a $50 million Phase 3 expansion… Read More

The Alabama State Port Authority announced it has welcomed the largest bulk cargo ship ever to call on the Port of Mobile. The bulk carrier Maran Courage measures more than… Read More

Tuscaloosa, Ala.-based Parker Towing Company christened a pair of towing vessels November 15, naming them for longtime friends and business associates Normond McAllister and the late George Hampton “Hamp” Uzzelle… Read More

Leaders of the Alabama State Port Authority (ASPA) and the Mobile Engineer District jointly signed the Mobile Harbor Pre-Construction, Engineering and Design Agreement October 2 at ASPA’s headquarters in Mobile. Read More