Austal USA launches LCS 8
AUGUST 7, 2014 — Austal USA’s Mobile, AL, shipyard yesterday launched the future USS Montgomery (LCS 8). The vessel is the second of ten 127-meter Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ships that Austal is
AUGUST 7, 2014 — Austal USA’s Mobile, AL, shipyard yesterday launched the future USS Montgomery (LCS 8). The vessel is the second of ten 127-meter Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ships that Austal is
AUGUST 6, 2014 — Rolls-Royce Power Systems AG says it has won an order for six MTU diesel engines that will be used to propel three double-ended Turkish ferries. The order with
AUGUST 6, 2014 — Another prison sentence has been handed down in the ongoing Military Sealift Command bribery case. Yesterday, United States Chief District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith of the Eastern District
AUGUST 6, 2014 — Huntington Ingalls Inc., Newport News, Virginia, is being awarded a $25,648,075 modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-08-C-2110) for the detailed design and construction efforts to support the
AUGUST 6, 2014 — Ruhstorf, Germany, based Hatz Diesel will use next month’s SMM event to showcase its marine product line-up. Hatz is a leading manufacturer of industrial diesel engines in the
AUGUST 6, 2014 — Tanker giant Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. yesterday said that it had emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a newly reorganized company “with a strong balance sheet, focused strategy
AUGUST 6, 2014 — Fremantle, Western Australia, headquartered Mermaid Marine Australia (MMA) has taken delivery of the new state-of-the-art anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) Jaya Majestic. Built at Jaya’s Tuas, Singapore, shipyard,
AUGUST 5, 2014 — Cape Wind announced today that it has signed a contract with Weeks/Manson, a Joint Venture (WMJV) to serve as the lead construction contractor for America’s first offshore wind
AUGUST 5, 2014 — A marine insurer is warning of the increased risks that will arise from doubling the cargo-carrying capacity of ships transiting the Panama Canal. In a new report entitled
AUGUST 5, 2014 — “It used to be all the NVOCC needed was a telephone and a tariff,” says one long time shipping industry observer, “but no more.” Though NVOCCs may be