Shipyard News

Lévis, Québec, shipbuilder Davie Yards said yesterday that discussions that would have seen it acquired by Fincantieri are over. "The interested parties have concluded that it is not possible to reach an agreement within the time allowed to submit a bid on July 21 for the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy said the President and CEO of Davie, Mr. Gustav Johan Nydal. ...

Rear Adm. James Murdoch has been named the program executive officer for the newly established Program Executive Office, Littoral Combat Ships (PEO LCS).and E. Anne Sandel has been named as the executive director.The new PEO was established at a July 11 ceremony at the Washington Navy Yard, and provides a single program executive responsible for acquiring and maintai ...

Croatian shipbuilder Brodosplit says it has been awarded a contract to build a heavy lift ship by Jumbo ShippingJumbo is one of the world's leading shipping company for transportation of heavy or large size cargo, and the ship being built in the Brodosplit shipyard will be the largest in its fleet with a length of 152 meters and breadth of 27 meters. It will be equippe ...

According to Braemar Seascope's latest Containership Fleet Statistics, 2012 looks set to be the biggest year for containership newbuilding deliveries in history, in terms of TEU capacity entering the cellular fleet. Boxship deliveries from world shipyards in 2012 are expected to reach 1.55 million TEU - beating the previous record of 1.52 million TEU achieved during 2007. Braema ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has completed the modernization of its Shimonoseki Shipyard  in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. The shipyard's primary markets are coastal-service vessels for Japanese customers and governmental-organization-use vessels.A ceremony held at the yard today marked the completion of the last in a series of modernization initiati ...

ThyssenKrupp AG said Friday that restructuring of its ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems is largely complete. But it also revealed that it will not proceed with the planned the sale of the civil shipbuilding business of Blohm+Voss and HDW to the Abu Dhabi MAR group (combined with a military surface vessel joint venture with Blohm+Voss Naval). "Following two years of amicable talks ...

General Dynamics NASSCO, San Diego, Calif., announced today that it has received a $60 million contract from the U.S. Navy to purchase long-lead materials for the construction of a third Mobile Landing Platform (MLP) ship. NASSCO is already under contract to build two MLP ships. With this new contract, NASSCO will place orders for the ship’s engines and other components that hav ...

The U.S. Navy has exercised contract options valued at about $313 million to fund the construction sixth and seventh Joint High Speed Vessels (JHSVs) at Austal USA, Mobile, Ala. If the Navy exercises additional options to build a total of 10 JHSVs, the total value of the program could be worth over $1.6 billion. Austal USA’s President and COO Joe Rella cites the ...