Huntington Ingalls reports strong second quarter results

AUGUST 8, 2012 — Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) attributes improved second quarter performance by the shipbuilding giant to “strong execution of our existing contracts and …

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

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

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