Irving Shipbuilding launches Online Supplier Register

Halifax, Nova Scotia, headquartered Irving Shipbuilding has officially launched its Online Supplier Registry, as a part of its preparation for upcoming vessel construction programs associated with Canada’s National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS).

Navy exercises options at Austal USA for JHSV 8 and 9

Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., is being awarded a $321,725,461 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-08-C-2217) for the exercise of construction options for Joint High Speed Vessels 8 and 9.  The JHSV will

Huntington Ingalls awarded $391.7 million Navy contract for CVN 72 work

Huntington Ingalls, Inc., Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $391,797,124 cost-plus-fixed-fee, with performance incentives, fiscal 2012 contract option under an existing contract (N00024-10-C-2110) for continuation of the refueling complex overhaul advance

BMT Nigel Gee designed patrol boat set for Arabian Gulf duties

Northumberland, U.K., boatbuilder Alnmaritec has completed a 40 knot patrol boat designed by Southampton, U.K., based BMT Nigel Gee Ltd., a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd. The vessel is destined for the

Britain to order Naval auxiliary tankers from Korean shipyard

Britain’s Ministry of Defence  has named South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering as the preferred bidder for four new generation 37,000-tonne tankers to be ordered for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA)

Gladding-Hearn delivers pilot boat for Virginia

Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation, Somerset, MA, recently delivered a second Chesapeake Class launch to the Virginia Pilot Boat Corporation, the shipyard’s seventh pilot boat for this group. With a deep-V hull designed

Huntington Ingalls appoints VP of customer relations for Ingalls Shipbuilding

Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that Vice Adm. Daniel P. Holloway, U.S. Navy (Ret.), has been named vice president of customer relations for the company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division. In this capacity, Holloway

OSHA cites Jeffboat for nine safety violations

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Jeffboat LLC, America’s largest inland shipbuilder, for nine safety violations, including one willful violation, at its Jeffersonville, Ind., facility after

Eastern Shipbuilding leases 20 acre site in Port St. Joe

With some twenty advanced offshore service vessels on its order book, Panama City, Fla., based Eastern Shipbuilding Group is expanding its operations. Today, the St. Joe Company  announced that it will lease

Eastern Shipbuilding leases 20 acre site in Port St. Joe

With some twenty advanced offshore service vessels on its order book, Panama City, Fla., based Eastern Shipbuilding Group is expanding its operations. Today, the St. Joe Company  announced that it will lease

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