Shipyard News

AUGUST 9, 2012 — Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. has appointed Charles "Skip" Bowen as Vice President Government Relations. Mr. Bowen joined Bollinger in April 2011 as Program Manager for the FRC "Sentinel" Class Patrol Boat building program at Bollinger's Lockport facility, following a successful 32 year career with the United States Coast Guard ...

AUGUST 9, 2012 — The European Commission proposes to provide €2 million from the European Globalization Adjustment Fund (EGF) to help 450 redundant workers in the shipbuilding ancillary industry in Galicia, Spain, back into employment. The funds, requested by the Spanish authorities, would help former workers from 35 small and medium siz ...

AUGUST 8, 2012 — Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) attributes improved second quarter performance by the shipbuilding giant to "strong execution of our existing contracts and ... steady progress toward restoring margins at Ingalls." He noted that several large programs reached key milestones ...

AUGUST 8, 2012 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) this week began construction on the amphibious transport dock LPD 27. Being built at Ingalls Shipbuilding division, it is the eleventh ship in the USS San Antonio (LPD 17) class of. "This is the eleventh LPD in what has become a hot production line," said ...

AUGUST 3, 2012 — Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ: GLDD) has signed a contract with shipbuilder Signal International, Inc. for the construction of a 15,000-cubic-yard-capacity trailing suction hopper barge and 14,000-horsepower tug. Together, the two units will function as an articulated tug and barge ("A ...

AUGUST 2, 2012 — U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis was front and center when representatives of the Newport News Shipbuilding Apprentice School attended a Department of Labor national apprenticeship summit. Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that the school was ...

JULY 28, 2012—The day before christening the ninth Landing Platform Dock ship in the San Antonio Class, Huntington Ingalls Inc., Pascagoula, MS, was awarded a $1.514 billion fixed-price-incentive modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-06-C-2222) for the procurement of the detail design and construction of Landing Platform Dock ship (L ...

JULY 27, 2012 — General Dynamics, NASSCO, Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $115,016,340 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-4416) for amphibious landing ship USS Oak Hill (LSD 51) to extended drydocking, modernization, upgrades, repairs and alterations to several shipboard systems such as the engineering cont ...