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Another $100.4 million for Virginia class sub program

OCTOBER 2, 2012 — GD Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $100,444,236 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-10-C-2118) to exercise an option for continued lead yard services for the

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VT Halter teams with DCNS for OPC program bid

OCTOBER 2, 2012 —  VT Halter Marine, Inc. has announced a partnership agreement with France’s DCNS to submit a proposal to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the design and construction

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Capt Alex Sweeney now VP project ops at Crowley solutions

OCTOBER 2, 2012 — Captain Alex Sweeney has joined Crowley’s solutions group as vice president, project operations. Captain Sweeney, who most recently served as vice president of operations for Crowley’s petroleum distribution

STX OSV books order for cable layer

OCTOBER 2, 2012 — STX OSV Holdings Limited reports that it has secured a contract for the design and construction of one cable laying vessel for an international client. The vessel will

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Costamare subsidiary reaches settlement in Rena case

OCTOBER 1, 2012 –The New Zealand Government and Costamare subsidiary Daina Shipping Company (owner of the containership MV Rena) have reached what Maritime New Zealand calls “a comprehensive financial settlement in respect

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NSRP to fund 12 new shipbuilding R&D projects

OCTOBER 1, 2012 —The Executive Control Board of the National Shipbuilding Research Project (NSRP) has selected 12 new R&D projects as part of the program’s core mission to reduce the costs associated

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Marcon brokers another tug sale

OCTOBER 1, 2012 — Marcon International, Inc., Coupeville, Wash., has brokered the sale of the 1996-built twin screw tug King Philip to Latin American interests on a private basis. The 96.0 ft

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ABB to supply systems for Russian icebreaker

OCTOBER 1, 2012 — ABB reports it has won an order worth $35 million from the Baltic Shipyard Ltd. to supply propulsion and electrical systems for a new icebreaker vessel under construction

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Hoegh LNG exercises option for fourth FSRU

OCTOBER 1 — Höegh LNG has exercised an option for a fourth new floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) to be built at Hyundai Heavy Industries Ltd. in South Korea. The vessel