Coast Guard Seaman Charles Maurer, a crew member aboard Cutter Frank Drew, inspects the light atop a buoy on the James River in Newport News, Virginia, Feb. 20, 2018. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty ...

Last week Fincantieri Marine Systems North America (FMSNA) was awarded a $9.6 million contract to perform maintenance and repairs to the U.S. Coast Guard’s fleet of Inland Buoy Tenders. The multi-year ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded Denver-based Birdon America, Inc. a contract for the detail design and construction of its new river buoy and inland construction tenders. The deal is part of the ...

The Coast Guard’s Waterways Commerce Cutter (WCC) program envisages procuring 30 replacements for the Coast Guard’s 35 aging river buoy tenders (WLRs), inland construction tenders (WLICs), and inland ...

Notional vendor rendering of two Waterways Commerce Cutter variants: a River Buoy Tender (left) and an Inland Construction Tender (right). The CB-ATON-S class will support operations of all three WCCs ...

The Strait of Juan de Fuca’s shipping lanes have a new red and yellow marker today, thanks to a black U.S. Coast Guard cutter and a black-and-white Brazilian freighter. The 175-foot Coast Guard buoy ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - The Coast Guard's 17th District is hosting the annual District Buoy Tender Roundup in Juneau.The week-long gathering is set to begin Monday. It will include vessels homeported in ...

Rain or torrential rain, the games must and did go on for the Coast Guard’s annual Buoy Tender Olympics on Wednesday, which took place during their annual Buoy Tender Roundup. The annual event, held ...

Members of the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S.C.G Dive Team, U.S. Army Dive Team and the Canadian Coast Guard participate in the annual Buoy Tender Olympics at Station Juneau on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019.