The six custom-designed riverine patrol boats are uniquely engineered to successfully operate in shallow and hazardous waters. (Credit: Silver Ships)

Recent workboat deliveries have enhanced fuel efficiencies in mind  

Coming off the heels of the International Workboat Show last month, one thing is certain: an emphasis on green operations was all over the showroom floor. Workboats, including patrol and pilot boats—the

HOS MPSV completion vessel

Eastern Shipbuilding tapped to complete HOS MPSV duo

Panama City, Fla., headquartered Eastern Shipbuilding Group reports that it has been contracted by Zurich American Insurance Company to complete the construction of two ultra high-spec 400 class Multi-Purpose Support Vessels (MPSVs)

Destroyers under construction at GD Bath Iron WOrks (BIW)

GD Bath Iron Works to get $34 million in workforce initiative funding

U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R. Me), Vice Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Defense Subcommittee, yesterday announced that the U.S. Navy has approved more than $34 million for six new workforce

Expeditionary Medical Ship

Austal USA wins $867.6 million order for three Expeditionary Medical Ships

Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., has been awarded an $867,666,667 modification to a previously awarded U.S. Navy contract (N00024-19-C-2227) for the detail design, and construction of three Expeditionary Medical Ships, an Expeditionary Fast

APL 71 is the fifth vessel of its class to be delivered to the Navy and the third to be homeported in Norfolk, Va. 

First Bollinger-built APL barge delivered to U.S. Navy

Last week, Bollinger Shipyards delivered the first Bollinger-built Auxiliary Personnel Lighter–Small (APL) Class berthing and messing barge (APL 71) to the U.S. Navy. APL 71 is the fifth vessel of its class

Ship’s sponsor and daughter of the namesake, signs her initials onto a steel plate that will be welded within DDG 131, the future USS George M. Neal.

Ingalls lays keel of future USS George M. Neal

The keel for the future USS George M. Neal (DDG 131), a Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, was ceremonially laid at HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division, December 15. The ship is named for

hybrid research vessel

PNNL hybrid research vessel hits the water

Seattle-based Snow & Company recently launched the 50-foot plug-in hybrid research vessel it is building for the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) into Lake Washington. The vessel, the R/V

USNS Arctic at sea

Detyens wins $8.2 million USNS Arctic contract

Detyens Shipyards Inc., Charleston, S.C., has been awarded at $8,220,997 firm-fixed-price contract (N3220524C4091) for an 82 calendar day shipyard availability for a mid-term availability of Military Sealift Command’s fleet ordnance and dry

handshake seals Australian Army landing craft MOU

Austal and Birdon in MOU on Australian Army landing craft project

Two Australian shipbuilders with significant U.S. presences chose Mobile, Ala., to announce today that they are teaming up for an Australian Army landing craft project. The two companies, Austal Ships Pty Limited

GAO report criticizes Navy shipbuilding delays

GAO denies bid protest of waterways commerce cutter award

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has rejected a bid protest filed by Steiner Construction Company, Inc., a small business of Bayou La Batre, Alabama, against the continued performance of a contract awarded

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