A Chinese ship docked at the Conley Terminal in South Boston this morning carrying three big cranes that will let larger cargo ships dock at the terminal in South Boston once they're installed and operating later this year. Andrew Morrison captured the ship from the new Homewood Suites on Summer Street. Read more.
By adamg - 3/28/21 - 11:43 pm
Massport hopes to formally open an expanded, "Big Ship Ready" Conley Terminal this fall, after $850 million and several years' worth of expansion work that has included dredging a deeper ship channel through Boston Harbor and installing new, bigger cranes to unload containers from the largest ships that can traverse the Panama Canal. Read more.
By adamg - 8/18/20 - 1:26 pm
The Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports that surveillance cameras at the Black Falcon Pier in South Boston shows Tatianna Morales of Fall River and Djovany Pierre of Roxbury going into the water in Morales's white Ford Escape at 10:32 p.m. last Tuesday. Read more.
By adamg - 10/26/19 - 12:26 pm
Gary Waldeck couldn't help but notice the MSC Meraviglia docked at the Black Falcon pier this morning. With a capacity of 4,500 passengers, it's the sixth largest cruise ship in the world - and the largest to ever dock in Boston.
By adamg - 12/1/18 - 10:48 am
Adam Castiglioni is at the Flynn Cruiseport for the formal commissioning of the USS Thomas Hudner.
By adamg - 11/29/18 - 2:25 pm
Boston Police alert us that between 8:45 a.m. and 11 a.m. both tomorrow and Saturday, the Navy will have cannons blasting and fighter jets zooming over the Reserved Channel to help celebrate the formal commissioning of the USS Thomas Hudner.
The ship is named after Fall River native Thomas Hudner, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for crash landing his fighter jet in Korea in 1950 in an attempt to save another pilot who had been shot down by the Chinese.
By adamg - 8/12/18 - 4:59 pm
Eileen Murphy watched some fishermen plying the waters of the Reserved Channel today; she reports that whatever the guy had hooked got away.
By adamg - 12/4/17 - 11:08 am
State energy regulators have signed off on plans by Eversource to expand its K Street substation in South Boston. The plans include connecting two parts of the Harborwalk path that now end near where the new equipment will go. Read more.
By adamg - 6/1/17 - 7:05 pm
Krista Easterly enjoyed some rainbow action over the Reserve Channel and Boston Harbor this afternoon.
Dr. B watched the storm retreat from Revere Beach: Read more.
By adamg - 5/15/17 - 11:15 pm
The developers working on transforming the 15-acre Boston Edison power-plant site today filed formal plans with the BPDA and state environmental regulators for 2.1 million square feet of development, including 1,588 residential units, a 150-room hotel, 340,000 square feet of office space and 68,000 square feet of retail, 987 parking spaces and more than an acre of public space along the Reserved Channel. Read more.
By adamg - 10/9/15 - 2:13 pm
Mike took a look at the three cruise liners docked at the Black Falcon Pier today: The Norwegian Dawn, the Queen Mary 2 and the Serenade of the Seas.
By adamg - 8/15/15 - 11:33 am
First responders rushed to the Summer Street bridge around 8:30 a.m. on a report of a person in the water. Eileen Murphy reports they recovered a body.
By adamg - 5/18/15 - 11:06 pm
Eileen Murphy couldn't help but notice how a container ship at the Conley Terminal towered over everything else - like the trees at Castle Island - today.
By adamg - 3/17/15 - 9:11 am
The Boston Business Journal reports Massport will use some land it bought from the MBTA between E. 1 Street and the Reserved Channel for a "freight corridor" that should take trucks off E. 1 and to build a 4.5-acre park.
By adamg - 10/5/14 - 7:31 pm
Neal Gaffey watched the Brilliance of the Seas passing Castle Island on its way out to sea today.
By adamg - 9/20/13 - 4:09 pm
MassChallenge, a high-tech incubator, announced along with Mayor Menino today that it'll be moving into new space in the Boston Marine Industrial Park from its current offices on Fan Pier.
By adamg - 6/10/11 - 2:37 pm
Boston Police report a lobsterman helped rescue some boaters swamped by the onslaught of yesterday afterno
By adamg - 2/10/11 - 7:38 pm
Boston Police report the body of a 36-year-old man was pulled out of the Reserve Channel by Summer Street and Pappas Way around noon today.
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