Shipyard News

LHA 6 JUNE 5, 2012 —Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that its Ingalls Shipbuilding division launched the U.S. Navy's next amphibious assault ship, America (LHA 6), from the company's floating drydock on Monday. The ship, weighing more than 29,000 tons in its current state, became one of the largest objects moved across land wh ...
   
odense JUNE 4, 2012 — The European Commission (EC) proposes providing Denmark with €6.5 million to help 550 redundant shipyard workers find new jobs in sectors seen as offering more employment potential than shipbuilding, including landscaping and robotics. The funding would come from the European Globalization Adjustment Fund (EGF) and th ...
   
Cecon JUNE 4, 2012 — Subsea installation contractor Cecon ASA looks to have hit yet another bump in the road to delivery of the three vessels it has on order at Lévis, Quebec, shipbuilder Davie. Cecon reports that SNC-Lavalin says "it has made the difficult decision to cease its efforts to participate in the Davie Joint Venture. Following an ...
   
etheridge JUNE 3, 2012 — Bollinger Shipyards has officially delivered the Richard Etheridge, the second vessel in the Coast Guard's Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutter (FRC) recapitalization project. The Coast Guard took delivery May 26 in Key West, Fla. after the cutter's transit from Lockport, La.   Richard Etheridge will be homepo ...
 
 
Westerburg-in-Gibdock JUNE 1, 2012 — Gibraltar-based ship repairer Gibdock has been seeing a high volume of workflow from the containership market. The latest German owner to select the shipyard for containership work is Reederei Hans Peterson & Sohne whose 188 m long, 1997-built Westerburg operates in the Mediterranean and West A ...
   
LHA14007 MAY 31, 2012 —The U.S. Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) a $2.38 billion fixed-price-incentive contract for the detail design and construction of the multipurpose amphibious assault ship Tripoli (LHA 7). The ship will be built at the company's Ingalls Shipbuilding division. "Large-deck amphibious ship construct ...
   
Tom Godfrey SSR-2 MAY 31, 2012 — Signal International, Inc. has appointed Tom Godfrey to the position of Domestic Sales and Marketing at the Signal Ship Repair (SSR) facility in Mobile, Ala. Mr. Godfrey complements the sales staff with 18 years of ship repair experience. His background in the maritime industry including planning and project m ...
   
LCS-supplier-reps-with-Congressman-Bonner MAY 31, 2012 — Austal has brought representatives of over 50 suppliers from 25 states to Washington, D.C., to build support for the future of the U.S. Navy's LCS program. The representatives of the Independence-variant LCS industrial base gathered on May 16 and 17 for a confere ...
   

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