USCG orders additional port security boats

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 — The U.S. Coast Guard recently ordered an additional seven 32 ft Transportable Port Security Boats (TPSB) under a five year contract awarded Kvichak Marine Industries, Inc., of Seattle,

Fincantieri stretches first of four MSC Cruises ships

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 — Fincantieri’s Palermo, Sicily, shipyard today inserted a new 24 m midbody into the first of four MSC Cruises ships that are being extended as part of the cruise

House panel told: U.S. commercial shipyards are booming

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 — “The state of the U.S. commercial shipyard industry is the strongest it has been in decades,” Matthew Paxton, president of the Shipbuilders Council of America (SCA), today told

Jeanne Warner christens submarine John Warner

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014 — With her husband at one side and a massive submarine bow on the other, Jeanne Warner christened John Warner (SSN 785), the 12th Virginia-class submarine and the only

Burger launches research vessel for Great Lakes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014—Burger Boat Company, Manitowoc, WI, recently launched the 78 ft research vessel Arcticus for the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The Arcticus replaces the 38-year-old R/V Grayling bringing the USGS Great Lakes Science Center

Huntington Ingalls gets $24 million for CVN 76 job

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014 — Huntington Ingalls Inc., Coronado, California, is being awarded a $24,230,190 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract (N00024-13-C-4315) for USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) fiscal 2014 planned incremental

Another busy day for Eastern Shipbuilding

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 — Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc., Panama City, FL, had a busy day August 28, with the delivery of a further inland towboat to Florida Marine Transporters, Inc., Mandeville, LA,

NASSCO gets $140 million Navy contract mod

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014 — General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, California, is being awarded a $139,953,434 modification to previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract N00024-08-C-4410 for USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52)

Eastern launches replica of historic schooner

AUGUST 29, 2014 — Eastern Shipbuilding, Panama City, FL, has launched Columbia (ESG Hull 981), an exact steel hull replica of the historic wooden Gloucester fishing schooner of the same name that

Foreign made, deck mounted BWTS get Jones Act OK

AUGUST 29, 2014 — The Coast Guard’s National Vessel Documentation Center has written a determination letter in relation to the construction by Aker Philadelphia Shipyard of up to eight new MT-50 product

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