Shipyard News

MAY 25, 2012—The Netherland’s Damen Shipyards Group will now have two ship repair yards in Sweden, following its acquisition of the shares of Swedish ship repair and maintenance yard Oskarshamnsvarvet in Oskarshamn. Oskarshamnsvarvet is a ship repair yard on the southeast coast of Sweden. It specializes in the maintenance and r ...

May 24, 2012 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has marked a construction milestone: lowering the final keel section of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) into place. Local media were invited to NNS to watch as the 680-metric-ton lower bow un ...

May 22, 2012 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that its seventh amphibious transport dock, Anchorage (LPD 23), returned Friday from successful builder's sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico. The ship is currently under construction at Ingalls' Avondale facility. "The LPD 23 team just finished one of the most successful builder' ...

May 22, 2012 —A new, state-of-the-art ship given to Qatar University will transform marine research in the Arabian Gulf region. Built by Freire Shipbuilding, Vigo, Spain, the research vessel Janan – named after the island located in the western part of the Qatari peninsula - was donated to the University by H.H. the ...

May 22, 2012 — Graig China Ltd (GCL), part of the Cardiff-based Graig Group, has been contracted by Hong Kong-based Global Union Shipping Limited to supervise the construction of ten 157,000 dwt suezmax crude oil tankers building at shipbuilder Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy Industries Co Ltd in China. The last vessel in the ten- ...

MAY 20, 2012: Machinists Union members at Bath Iron Works  voted 1,610-342 to accept a four-year contract agreement to replace the one that expires today. BIW spokesman Jim DeMartini told The Times Record that the Local S6 negotiating committee unanimously endorsed BIW's offer after more than two weeks of negotiations ...

MAY 18, 2012: St. Johns Ship Building of Palatka, Fla.has  delivered the offshore service vessel (OSV) Sea Strength to A. R. Singh Contractors of Point Fortin, Trinidad. The 157-ft vessel is currently undergoing owner's inspections and is available for work in the Caribbean offshore market. A. R. Sin ...

MAY 17, 2012: Enman & Associates, Inc., Jacksonviille, Fla., now represents US Fab, a subsidiary of Vigor Industrial specializing in new vessel construction in the Pacific Northwest. US Fab builds barges, passenger vessels, workboats and more. Vigor Industrial and US Fab build and repair vessels at the 60-acre Swan Island shipyard on Port ...