MARCH 5, 2018 — Fincantieri and the Naples headquartered Grimaldi Group have signed a letter of intent covering the lengthening and refurbishment program of the cruise ferries Cruise Roma and Cruise Barcelona.
FEBRUARY 17, 2018 — Five shipbuilders have each been awarded $15 million Navy contracts to provide conceptual designs for the next generation guided missile frigate (FFG (X)) that will follow the Literal
DECEMBER 3, 2017—Carnival Cruise Line, Miami, FL, says the third cruise ship in its Vista Class will be named Carnival Panorama and will enter service in November 2019. The 133,500-ton Carnival Panorama
NOVEMBER 16, 2017 — MSC Cruises yesterday staged a double event at shipbuilder STX France: A traditional coin ceremony for the Meraviglia class MSC Bellissima and cutting of the first steel for
NOVEMBER 14, 2017 — Fincantieri is proposing to delist its 79.34% owned shipbuilding and design subsidiary Vard from the main board of the Singapore Exchange. The delisting is subject to, among other
OCTOBER 31, 2017 —Virgin Voyages today laid the keel of the first of the three ships it is building at Fincantieri’s Genoa, Italy, shipyard. Hosting what they called a “ship tease,” Virgin
OCTOBER 30, 2017—The U.S. Navy in collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard under its Integrated Program Office, recently took the next step and released a draft Request for Proposals (RFP) for the
OCTOBER 4, 2017 — Following an order won in October 2016, MAN Diesel & Turbo SE has delivered the gensets for first new Italian Navy offshore patrol vessel and secured an order
SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 — France’s Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, is headed to the STX France shipyard in Saint-Nazaire today to meet with unions to explain the details of an
SEPTEMBER 25, 2017 — Fincantieri and Carnival Corporation & plc have signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) for construction of a next-generation cruise ship for Cunard. To be built at Fincantieri’s Monfalcone