Op-Ed: Saving shipyards from the “cliff-edge” with AI
The global shipyard sector is facing a skills time bomb. In the U.S. alone the average age of the nation’s 146,500 strong shipyard workforce is 55. This aging workforce challenge is further
Shipyards
Eastern Shipbuilding launches the first of four CARB-compliant Saltchuk escort tugs
Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG), Panama City, Fla., has launched the first of the four new Robert Allan Ltd. RApport 2600 escort tugs it is building for Saltchuk Marine under a contract awarded
![Metal Shark will embed Tocaro Blue’s ProteusCore radar processing software into itsfleet of high speed maneuverable unmanned surface vessels (HSMUSVs). [Photo: Metal Shark].-](https://www.marinelog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/MStures1-300x225.jpg)
Metal Shark and Tocaro Blue in strategic collaboration on autonomy
Jeanerette, La. -based boat builder Metal Shark and Pensacola, Fla.-headquartered Tocaro Blue, a specialist if AI-powered marine sensor processing solutions, have entered a strategic collaboration to embed Tocaro Blue’s ProteusCore radar processing
Veteran Boston Harbor ferry Outward Bound returns to Gladding-Hearn for mid-life refit
Originally delivered by Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation in 1995, the Boston Harbor ferry MV Outward Bound has returned to the Somerset, Mass., shipyard for a mid-life refit. Redelivery is planned for spring
Silver Ships delivers coastal fast response fireboat
Theodore, Ala.-based Silver Ships Inc. has delivered a new fire rescue vessel to Florida’s Destin Fire Control District.The 52-foot coastal fast response boat (CFRB), identified as M-19, is outfitted with four 425
![A welder from Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors, LLC, welds the initials of the Navigator's sponsor, Rear Admiral (retired) Evelyn Fields (in yellow), onto a steel plate that will be incorporated into the ship. [Photo: NOAA]](https://www.marinelog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/20251204-Navigator-Keel-laying-Welding-600x400-1-300x225.jpg)
NOAA holds keel-laying ceremony for Navigator, its second new charting and mapping vessel
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) leaders were joined by partners Dec.4 to celebrate the keel-laying for Navigator, the second of two new charting and mapping vessels being constructed for the agency
Conrad Shipyard and Samsung Heavy in MOU on LNG bunkering projects.
Morgan City, La.-headquartered Conrad Shipyard, LLC, which back in 2018 delivered the first LNG bunkering barge built in North America, has sigmed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with South Korea’s Samsung Heavy
![L to R: Mr. Seogyong (SY) Youn, DSEC president; Dave Carver, NASSCO president; Mr. Joonyun Kang, Samsung director of the eco business team. [Photo: GD NASSCO]](https://www.marinelog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/NASSCO_MOA-300x225.jpg)
GD NASSCO and Korea’s DSEC and Samsung Heavy in MOA
As cooperation between U.S. and South Korean shipbuilders continues to grow, General Dynamics NASSCO and South Korean shipbuilders DSEC Co. and Samsung Heavy Industries Co. have signed a three party memorandum of
Davie Defense closes Gulf Copper acquisition
Davie Defense reports that it has closed its acquisition of Gulf Copper & Manufacturing Corporation’s shipbuilding assets in Galveston and Port Arthur, Texas. The completion of the transaction includes all required U.S.
Fincantieri: Constellation class cancelations part of a “reshaping” of partnership with the Navy
Fincantieri has released a statement providing more background on the Navy’s widely-reported decision to cancel four Constellation-class frigates. Released by Fincantieri Marine Group (FMG), the statement says that FMG and the U.S.