Shipyard News

Bollinger Texas City, L.P., (BTC) a Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. facility, reports the upcoming retirement of its Vice President and General Manager, Max Sparre (left in picture), after a 51 year career in the shipyard industry. Bollinger Executive Vice President, Ben Bordelon announced that Mr. Sparre will retire early next year and ...

Alu Marine shipyard, Port Launay, Couëron, France, has successfully delivered a new pilot boat to the Rouen based  Seine pilots. To improve the quality of their services, the Seine pilots chose to invest in a lighter, faster and economical pilot boat, which consumes less fuel.The boat is therefore one of ...

French shipyard Bernard is set to deliver a second ORC 190 type pilot boat to the German pilotage organization Lotsenversetzboote Technische Fachstelle Nordwest. The Fresena follows the Frya, delivered in May 201, and is the second in a series of four vessels for German pilots. Marc Bernard, technic ...

The U.S. Navy’s Norfolk Ship Support Activity recently awarded a $51,958,270 modification to a previously awarded contract to BAE Systems Norfolk Ship Repair, Norfolk, VA, to perform an Extended Drydocking Selected Restricted Availability (EDSRA) for the guided missile destroyer USS Ramage (DDG 61). Above Photo: The USS Ramage (DDG 61) docke ...

Shipbuilder Austal USA, Mobile, Alabama, reports that Joint High Speed Vessel USNS Spearhead (JHSV 1) has completed builder's sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico. The trials encompassed over 50 demonstration events that enabled the shipbuilder to rigorously test the ship and all of its systems in p ...

Military Sealift Command hasaccepted delivery of its newest dry cargo/ammunition ship, USNS Medgar Evers (T-AKE 13), during a short ceremony at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego. The ship is named for slain civil rights leader Medgar Wiley Evers, who is remembered for his efforts to end segreg ...

Subsea installation contractor Cecon ASA may at last be nearer the day when it actually gets to take delivery of the three vessels it has on order at Quebec shipbuilder Davie. It has gotten an acceptance from Export Development Canada to acquire the rights in a $200 million EDC financing originally received by Cecon ASA in February 2009. Ce ...

In a promising development for lightweight shipbuilding constructions, Germany's Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) and its partners in a joint project have laser welded a demonstrator for marine gear unit foundations made of steel and aluminum foam sandwich material. Large scale metal-foam sandwich materials are especially interesting for hig ...