Ingalls Shipbuilding cuts steel for LPD 27
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
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Great Lakes Dredge splashes out at U.S. shipyards
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
NNS school is “Apprenticeship Innovator and Trailblazer”
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
Huntington Ingalls awarded $1.5 billion Navy contract
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
NASSCO Norfolk awarded $115 million contract mod
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,
TY Offshore and FMT christen first in ten barge series
JULY 25, 2012 —Trinity Offshore, LLC and FMT Industries, LLC have christened and launched FMT 3242, the first of ten 297 ft 6 in x 54 ft x 12 ft, 30,000 barrel
Shipyard employee charged in fires on nuclear sub
JULY 23, 2012 — Casey James Fury, a civilian employee working as a painter and sandblaster at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, has been charged with two counts of arson in relation to fires
Seaspan Shipyards chooses IFS Applications as MRP solution
JULY 20, 2012 —IFS North America reports that Seaspan Shipyards has selected IFS Applications as its shipbuilding materials requirements planning (MRP) solution. IFS Applications was chosen because it provides a powerful project-based
Jaya Shipbuilding signs agreement with IHC Merwede
JULY 20, 2012 — Jaya Shipbuilding and Engineering Pte. Ltd., the shipbuilding subsidiary of Singapore’s Jaya Holdings, has signed an agreement with IHC Merwede Asia Pacific that enables IHC’s high-specification offshore vessels
Fairstar Heavy confirms commitment to newbuilding contract
JULY 19, 2012 — Even though it failed to make a payment due on June 20, 2012, Fairstar Heavy Transport N.V., says there is “no indication” that a newbuilding contract it entered