Canada selects Irving, Seaspan to build C$33 billion of ships under NSPS

Under the largest procurement in Canadian shipbuilding history, Irving Shipbuilding Inc. and Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards Co. Ltd. emerged as the winners today of Canada’s National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy. Irving Shipbuilding was selected

Quigley named President of US Fab

Kevin Quigley, who built Vigor Industrial’s Everett Shipyard, Everett, WA, into one of the largest dockside repair centers in the Pacific Northwest, has been named president of Vigor’s US Fab division, which

Order from FMT gets Trinity Offshore back into inland barge building

FMT Industries, LLC–an affiliate of Mandeville, La., based Florida Marine Transporters, Inc.–has signed a contract with Trinity Offshore, LLC to build four 297 ft 6 in x 54 ft x 12 ft,

Stena Bulk orders two 170,000 cu.m LNG tankers from DSME

Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has taken this year’s order intake past the $12.5 billion dollar mark by booking contracts worth around $400 million for two 170,000 cu.m LNG tankers for

Louisiana to provide $214 million in incentives to preserve Avondale jobs

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) President and CEO Mike Petters have announced that the State and Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding

ADM orders post-Panamax bulkers with air-lubricated hulls

Agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) has placed an order with Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation for the construction of three new 95,000 dwt post-Panamax dry-bulk oceangoing vessels, which will increase the

Atwood exercises drillship contract with Daewoo

Houston-headquartered Atwood Oceanics, Inc. says that on October 15, 2011, wholly-owned subsidiary Alpha Eagle Company entered into a turnkey construction contract with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co., Ltd.,  to construct an

Teekay firms up deal with Sevan

Teekay Corporation (NYSE: TK)  has now entered into an agreement with Sevan Marine ASA and holders of more than two-thirds of each of Sevan’s bond loans, that will see it go ahead

St. Johns Ship Building to build custom crane spud barge

St. Johns Ship Building, Palatka, Fla., has won a contract to construct a custom crane spud barge for Skanska, one of the largest construction companies in the world. This is the first

Port operations generate 279,200 NY-NJ jobs

More than 279,200 jobs are generated by activity in the Port of New York and New Jersey, according to a just-released study. The independent economic impact study of port operations, prepared by

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