Shipyard News

JUNE 29, 2012 — BAE Systems has begun construction on the MV Magdalen, an 8,500 cubic yard capacity trailing suction hopper dredge for Weeks Marine, Inc. Executives from the two companies gathered this week at the BAE Systems Mobile shipyard to oversee the initial cutting of steel ...

JUNE 28, 2012 — Transocean's semisubmersible offshore drilling rig Sedco 77 is headed for the Keppel AmFELS shipyard in Brownsville, Texas. has secured a contract from Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling Inc. (Transocean) to repair and upgrade the semisubmersible (semi) rig Sedco 707. Scheduled to arrive at Keppel AmFELS next ...

JUNE 27, 2012 — Khamis Juma Buamim, Chairman of Dubai, UAE, headquarted Drydocks World is to also serve as the Chairman of the Board of DDW-PaxOcean Asia. The new entity is to be formed as a result of an agreement between Drydocks World  and the Kuok Group to form a joint venture between Drydocks World - Southeast Asia (DDW-SEA) and ...

JUNE 27, 2012 — Austal has confirmed that Austal USA President and COO Joe Rella resigned last Friday, June 22, 2012. On Monday, June 25, the Austal USA Board named CFO Brian Leathers interim President of Austal USA and Mr. Craig Perciavalle as Senior VP Shipyard Operations. Austal CEO Andrew Bellamy called the transition ...

JUNE 26, 2012 — The future USS Anchorage (LPD 23) successfully completed acceptance trials on June 22, sailing from and returning to Huntington Ingalls Industries' (HII) shipyard in Avondale, La. Anchorage is the seventh ship of the San Antonio class amphibious transport dock ships to be presented to the Navy's Board of Inspection and Survey ...

 25, 2012 — Russia's RIA Novosti reported Friday that United Shipbuilding Company (OSC) is to build four seismic ships for Sovcomflot. The news agency reported OSC Deputy General Director Roman Trotsenko as saying the ships will be built in pairs and that the contract is worth over $1 billion.

JULY 19, 2012 — Monica Svenner has been appointed as the new managing director of Damen Shiprepair Götaverken, Gothenburg, Sweden. Ms. Svenner has wide industrial experience and has been MD of several international companies, such as Stena Recycling and Atlas Copco. She is the f ...

JUNE 18, 2012 — General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, is being awarded a not-to-exceed $66,123,900 cost-plus-award-fee contract for DDG 51 and FFG 7 class integrated planning shipyard services. Services being done will provide expert design, planning, and material support services ...