MARCH 4, 2015—It’s been a historic 24 hours for Vigor Industrial. As we reported yesterday, the Portland, OR-headquartered shipbuilding and fabrication firm announced that it had struck a merger deal under which
FEBRUARY 3, 2015 — ASRY, Bahrain, has signed a $33 million ship repair block agreement with Kuwait Oil Tanker Company (KOTC) that includes the exclusive maintenance rights to 19 vessels over the
JANUARY 7, 2015 — Chantier Davie Canada Inc, Lévis, Quebec, reports a busy three weeks. Over the holiday period, the second in the series of 130-m Subsea Construction Vessels that the company
DECEMBER 12, 2014 — Indianapolis, IN, headquartered TPG Marine Enterprises LLC has purchased Chicago Dry Dock, Inc. Located in Chicago on the Calumet River, the shipyard is the only facility of its
NOVEMBER 26, 2014 — Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen, Netherlands, has been awarded a contract by the U.K. unit of Helix Energy Solutions that will see it carry out a major upgrade of the
NOVEMBER 5, 2014 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) was moved Monday from one of dry docks at its Newport News Shipbuilding division
NOVEMBER 3, 2014 — Celebration Cruise Line says that its one ship, Bahamas Celebration, is in dry dock and there will be no sailings for the first two weeks in November, after
OCTOBER 30, 2014 — Marseilles, France, headquartered CMA CGM is to retrofit ten more ships with bulbous bows optimized for current operating speeds. The container shipping giant has already carried out similar
OCTOBER 2, 2014 — The first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier the USS Enterprise (CVN 65) is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2016, but one of its anchors is going back to sea —
OCTOBER 1, 2014 — Austal USA yesterday launched JHSV 5, the future USNS Trenton from its shipyard. “The JHSV program is benefitting from serial production,” said Capt. Henry Stevens, Strategic and Theater