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VIDEO: Eastern Shipbuilding moves ahead on OSV to SOV conversion

Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Panama City, Fla., has released video showing that it is well along with its conversion of a 280-foot offshore supply vessel (OSV) to a battery-hybrid service operation vessel (SOV),

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Bollinger gets $7.6M mod to unmanned MCM vessel contract

Bollinger Shipyards Lockport LLC, Lockport, La., has been awarded a $7,677,970 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-22-C-6305) to exercise options for Mine Countermeasures Unmanned Surface Vehicles (MCM USV) engineering support.

KAUST orders Saudi Arabia’s first regional class research vessel

KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) announced that Freire Shipyards, which has over 100 years of shipbuilding experience, will build its new research vessel, R/V Thuwal II, at its yard

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BAE San Diego and Vigor get NAVSEA contracts worth $254M

Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), Washington, D.C., yesterday awarded two shipyards contracts worth a total of $253,923,531 for work on Arleigh Burke class destroyers. Both contracts include options that, if exercised, could

Guilty plea in Austal USA fraud case

Austal USA pleads guilty to accounting fraud and obstruction of DoD audit

The U.S. Department of Justice reports that Austal USA LLC, a subsidiary of Australian shipbuilder Austal Limited (ASX: ASB) yesterday entered a guilty plea and agreed to pay $24 million to resolve

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BAE Jacksonville gets $26.2M mod to LCS 29 contract

BAE Systems Jacksonville Ship Repair LLC, Jacksonville, Fla., has been awarded a $26,225,607 cost-plus-award-fee modification to exercise an option to a previously awarded contract (N00024-20-C-2320) for the accomplishment of a post shakedown

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Conrad Shipyard awarded $18.2 million YRBM contract mod

Within two-weeks of celebrating a First of Class Recognition ceremony for YRBM-57, the first in a new class of yard, repair, berthing, messing (YRBM) vessels, Conrad Shipyard,Morgan City, La., has been awarded

Bardex OmniLift shiplift will include fifty-six 575-tonne chain jack lift stations

Bardex wins contract for new 27,000-tonne Irving Shipbuilding shiplift

Canada’s Irving Shipbuilding Inc. has awarded Bardex Corporation a contract for a 165-meter shiplift with a capacity of over 27,000 tonnes. The Bardex OmniLift shiplift will include fifty-six 575-tonne chain jack lift

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USCG extends Birdon America’s 47-foot MLB SLEP contract

Birdon America Inc. reports that the U.S. Coast Guard has exercised “Option Order 1” under the 47-foot MLB (Motor Lifeboat) Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) contract it was awarded in 2019. This

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Austal USA christens EPF 15

With the smash of a champagne bottle on the bow of the ship, Mrs. Elizabeth Asher christened the future USNS Point Loma (EPF 15) at a ceremony held Saturday at Austal USA’s

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