Metal Shark wins $5 million Coast Guard contract
SEPTEMBER 29, 2013 — The U.S. Coast Guard has placed a delivery order valued at $5 million with Metal Shark Aluminum Boats of Jeanerette, LA., for 15 Response Boats-Small II. The order
Colonna’s Shipyard books $13.7 million Navy contract
SEPTEMBER 29, 2013 — Colonna’s Shipyard Inc. doing business as Steel America, Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $13,789,200 firm-fixed-price contract for construction of a steel caisson for graving Drydock 1 at
Austal USA delivers LCS 4
SEPTEMBER 29, 203 — Austal USA’s Mobile, AL, shipyard marked another milestone September 27, officially handing over the Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship Coronado (LCS 4). The successfully completed Acceptance Trials (AT) at
Avondale unions ratify new labor contract
SEPTEMBER 29, 2013 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that members of the New Orleans Metal Trades Council (NOMTC) and the Metal Trades Department (MTD) approved a new collective bargaining agreement with
FSG delivers Canada’s largest ConRo to Oceanex
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013 — Following a series of successful sea trials, Oceanex Inc. today accepted delivery of the 210 m Oceanex Connaigra, Canada’s largest ConRO ship, from German shipbuilder Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG).
IHC Merwede launches first of five pipelayers
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013 — IHC Merwede has successfully named and launched the pipelaying vessel Sapura Diamante in a ceremony at its shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands. The naming was
Klaveness to spin off dry bulk fleet
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013 — Norway’s Torvald Klaveness says its board has decided to seek a listing of the group’s owned dry bulk fleet under the name Klaveness Bulk ASA. Klaveness recently ordered
MSC ship hits Florida bridge
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013 — A Florida bridge that carries 56,000 vehicles daily will be closed “indefinitely” after it was hit at about 2.00 P.M. yesterday by a Military Sealift Command ship under
Hyde Marine partners with Cammell Laird
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013 — Calgon Carbon Corporation (NYSE: CCC) subsidiary Hyde Marine, Inc. has established a partnership agreement with U.K. shipyard Cammell Laird for installation of the chemical free Hyde Guardian (HG)
EBDG opens Ketchikan office
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013 — Seattle and New Orleans based naval architecture and marine engineering firm Elliott Bay Design Group LLC (EBDG) has established an office in Ketchikan, Alaska to meet growing customer