Halter Marine Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., has launched the first two in the series of Auxiliary Personnel Lighter–Small (APL(S)) berthing barges it is building for the U.S. Navy. In other milestones in the
USS McCampbell (DDG 85) departed Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, July 2, following 13 years of service forward-deployed to U.S. Seventh Fleet. The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer is en route to Portland, Oregon,
Detyens Shipyards Inc. Chairman of the Board David Loy Stewart Sr., 72, of Mt. Pleasant, S.C., husband of the late Judy Ann Detyens Stewart, passed away June 30, 2020. Born September 15,
The Navy has exercised an FY2020 $936 million option under a contract with Huntington Ingalls Industries that will see the company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division build DDG 135, the future USS Thad Cochran.
Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me., and Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss., have been awarded contract modifications together worth a total $194 million to fund capital expenditure projects for shipbuilder and
President Donald J. Trump visited Fincantieri Marinette Marine yesterday, following the shipyard’s recent award of a $795,116,483 Navy contract to design and produce the next generation small surface combatant, the Guided Missile
The Interlake Steamship Company and Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay, Wis., yesterday hosted a ceremonial keel laying to mark the start of assembly on the first U.S.-flagged Great Lakes bulk carrier to
As part of the national response to COVID-19, the Department of Defense (DoD) has entered into a $50 million Defense Production Act Title III agreement with shipbuilder Austal USA, Mobile. Ala. The
Alabama Shipyard LLC, Mobile, Ala., has been awarded a $23,752,381, firm-fixed-price contract for a 96-calendar day shipyard availability for the regular overhaul and drydocking of the Military Sealift Command fast combat support
Ben Bordelon, president and CEO of Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, La., has become the new Chairman of the Shipbuilders Council of America (SCA), succeeding Terry O’Brien of Austal USA, Mobile, Ala. The new