GL Maritime Software’s navigational decision-making support system GL SeaScout 2.0 has been installed on board Reederei Claus-Peter Offen’s 14,000 TEU containership MSC Savona. It will help the vessel to optimize routing; minimizing
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, is being awarded a not-to-exceed $110,799,779 contract modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-06-C-2303) for long lead time construction for DDG 1001, long lead time material
The Shipbuilders Council of America (SCA) today announced that Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding Divisions and General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works (General Dynamics NASSCO is currently a member
Japanese classification society Nippon Kaiji Kyokai — ClassNK — has issued the world’s first type approval for corrosion resistant steel to the new NSGP-1 steel manufactured by Nippon Steel Corporation’s Oita Works.
Singapore’s Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) reports that a contract, worth in excess of EUR 35 million, has been secured for SEAFOX 5, the KFELS Multi-Purpose Self-Elevating Platform (MPSEP) wind turbine installation
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood yesterday released a report that, he says, “will serve as a roadmap to the future in creating and further strengthening the nation’s marine highways” Prepared by Marad,
Bankrupt Quebec shipbuilder Davie Yards has gotten another order from the Québec Superior Court extending the stay of proceedings against it under Canada’s Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (“CCAA”) until March 10, 2011.
Britain’s BAE Systems says it has successfully demonstrated a prototype device that will serve as an effective non-lethal deterrent against pirate attacks on shipping. It is a laser beam capable of providing
Effective January 21, 2011, General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me., will be laying off around 130 workers. Local media quote BIW President Jeff Geiger as saying that the layoffs at the
Singapore’s ST Marine (Singapore Technologies Marine Ltd.) has secured its first contract from the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). It is to to double-hull the 157.2 m long combat logistics vesse HMAS Success,
