Shipyards

VIDEO: Ingalls Shipbuilding launches LPD 27

FEBRUARY 15, 2016 — Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE:HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division has launched the company’s eleventh amphibious transport dock, Portland (LPD 27). The ship, named for Oregon’s largest city, is scheduled to

OSD to design research vessel for Taiwan

FEBRUARY 12, 2016 — IJmuiden, Netherlands, based OSD (Offshore Ship Designers) has signed a contract for an IMT2001 Scientific Research Vessel for the Taiwanese Ocean Research Institute (TORI). The vessel will be

ECO to open shipyard in Port of Gulfport

FEBRUARY 8, 2016—Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO), Galliano, LA, will be investing $68 million in the opening of a new shipyard in the Port of Gulfport. Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and officials from

GD NASSCO awarded $12.6 million LCS 2 contract mod

FEBRUARY 2, 2016 — General Dynamics-National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, CA, is being awarded a $12,668,280 modification to previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee/incentive-fee contract (N00024-15-C-4313) for USS Independence (LCS-2) fiscal 2016 dry-docking