Chamber of Shipping of America Honors Crews for Maritime Safety Performance
[By: Crowley]
The Chamber of Shipping of America has recognized 48 Crowley-owned or -managed vessels with 2026 Jones F. Devlin Safety Awards for achieving a combined 427 years of service without a lost-time injury.
The Jones F. Devlin Safety Award recognizes merchant vessels that operate for at least two consecutive years without a crew member experiencing a lost-time injury. The awarded Crowley vessels include tugs, barges, commercial container ships and tank vessels operating globally.
The Chamber also honored the crews of El Coquí and Stena Immaculate with Ship Safety Achievement Awards for lifesaving and emergency response actions during separate incidents at sea in 2025.
The crew of El Coquí, Crowley’s U.S.-flagged combination container/roll-on/roll-off ship serving Puerto Rico and the mainland, was recognized for helping rescue four sailors from the SV Mariposa after the sailboat struck a submerged reef and sank near Silver Bank north of the Dominican Republic. After receiving a U.S. Coast Guard distress alert, El Coquí’s crew altered course, navigated challenging conditions and worked with the Coast Guard and a nearby vessel to bring the sailors to safety.
The U.S. crew of Stena Immaculate, a tanker previously managed by Crowley through its joint venture with Stena Bulk USA, was honored for its emergency response after their anchored vessel was struck by another ship in the North Sea. Despite a ruptured cargo tank and fire, the crew acted quickly to protect the safety of all 23 mariners, contain the fire to help mitigate further damage, and evacuate.
“We thank the Chamber of Shipping of America for recognizing Crowley vessels and crews for their commitment to safety,” said Meaghan Atkinson, vice president of safety and environmental assurance at Crowley. “These awards reflect the dedication to safety our mariners demonstrate every day and the skill they bring to every operation, from routine work to emergency response. Congratulations to our mariners and shoreside teams for this well-deserved recognition.”
The annual awards were presented during the Chamber of Shipping of America’s Ship Safety Award Luncheon in May. The event recognizes vessels and crews across the maritime industry for outstanding safety performance.
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Fincantieri's US Shipyards Recognized by Shipbuilders Council of America
Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding, Fincantieri ACE Marine, and Fincantieri Marine Repair honored for significant safety achievement, accident prevention, and continuous improvement
[By Fincantieri]
Fincantieri reaffirmed its leadership position in advanced shipbuilding and maritime innovation, announcing that three of its U.S. shipyards — Fincantieri ACE Marine (Green Bay, Wisconsin), Fincantieri Marine Repair (Jacksonville, Florida), and Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding (Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin) — have received national safety awards from the Shipbuilders Council of America (SCA) for 2025.
The awards received reflect a structured and continuous approach to safety, regarded as a core pillar of the Group’s industrial culture and a key enabler of operational excellence across its U.S. operations.
Fincantieri ACE Marine and Fincantieri Marine Repair were awarded the “Excellence in Safety” recognition, granted to shipyards that achieve a Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR), one of the industry’s key indicators for measuring workplace safety performance, below the industry average established by the Shipbuilders Council of America. The result confirms the robustness of the Group’s safety management systems and its consistent focus on the highest operational standards.
In parallel, Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding and Fincantieri Marine Repair received the “Improvement in Safety” award, reserved for shipyards achieving a TRIR reduction of at least 10 percent compared to the previous year. The recognition highlights the effectiveness of the continuous improvement processes implemented and the active role played by teams in reinforcing responsible and shared behaviors on a daily basis. In this context, the award represents a particularly significant milestone for Fincantieri Marine Repair, which receives a national safety recognition for the first time.
Fincantieri ACE Marine was also honored with the “Significant Safety Achievement” award, standing out as one of only three U.S. shipyards to have maintained a TRIR below 1.0 in 2025. This exceptional result attests to the systemic integration of safety within production processes and day?to?day operational management.
Taken together, these recognitions reflect the Group’s strategic focus on fostering an industrial culture in which safety is a foundational value, cutting across all functions and embedded in every phase of shipbuilding and ship repair activities. Within this framework, Fincantieri’s U.S. shipyards contribute to setting reference standards for the industry, underpinned by a shared commitment to responsibility, trust and respect for people.
The recognitions also reflect Fincantieri’s broader commitment to continuously strengthening its safety culture through innovation, workforce engagement and increasingly proactive prevention models across the Group’s industrial operations. This approach supports the progressive evolution of safety management from a reactive to a more predictive model, leveraging continuous improvement, data analysis and advanced technologies to reinforce prevention across all activities.
The Shipbuilders Council of America is the national trade association representing the U.S. shipbuilding, maintenance and repair industry. Its annual safety awards program is based on rigorous criteria, including TRIR performance, and underscores the importance of workforce protection and operational discipline as pillars of the entire industrial sector.
The products and services herein described in this press release are not endorsed by The Maritime Executive.
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