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Gifts for the Saw that Cuts Everything (Photo: Ethan Andrews) select Front Street Shipyard’s new water jet cutting machine (Photo: Front Street Shipyard) Front Street Shipyard recently acquired the largest water jet cutting machine in the state — a five-axis, 3D, Suprema DX 1340 model from Waterjet USA. It cost close to $1 million and can cut just about anything. Much of the actual cutting is done by garnet sand, which is mixed with the water and shot out of a nozzle in a high-pressure stream — three times the speed of sound, ac...

January 22, 2021 By Frank McCormack The clock is ticking for small shipyards hoping to receive funding from a popular Department of Transportation Maritime Administration grant program. Applications for the 2021 installment of the Small Shipyard Grant Program are due February 25. The Small Shipyard Grant Program received $20 million in funding, with $19.6 million available for grants, through the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, which was signed into law December 27, 2020. By statute, the deadline for submitting an applic...

January 22, 2021 By Shelley Byrne The Port of Huntington Tri-State is the nation’s busiest inland port by freight volume, according to a recently released freight analysis for 2019. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center released data late last year showing the port has overtaken the Ports of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky in total volume moved. Both ports are statistical ports with boundaries that have changed in recent years. The Port of Huntington Tri-State was the first port in the natio...