TSB Canada reports on foundering of self propelled barge

FEBRUARY 3, 2016 — Here’s another of those marine accident investigationts where the summary does not portray the full horrors in the actual report itself. Released February 1 by the Transportation Safety

Navantia launches last of 12 landing craft for Australia

MAY 1, 2015 — Spanish naval shipbuilder Navantia has launched the twelfth and final LLC fast landing craft in a series being built for the Royal Australian Navy. Their design is based

Repower gives stretched Polar Bear more speed

FEBRUARY 9, 2015 — There is a high demand for landing craft along the Alaskan coast where many communities are only accessible by water, but there are few ports or even rudimentary

Nichols Brothers to build landing craft for American Samoa

JANUARY 20, 2015—Nichols Brothers Boat Builders, Freeland, WA, has selected Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG), Seattle, to provide the design and production engineering for the construction of a new freight and passenger

OSI to provide ECPINS-W for Ship-to-Shore Connector

NOVEMBER 28, 2014 — OSI Maritime Systems (OSI), Burnaby, BC, Canada, says it has received a contract to provide its flagship ECPINS-W software to the U.S. Navy’s Ship-to-Shore Connector Landing Craft (SSC)

Scottish shipbuilder books fish farm vessel orders

AUGUST 21, 2014 — A contract worth in excess of £3.3 million (about $5.5 million) has been secured by Macduff Shipyards, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, from Scottish Sea Farms. The contract is for four

Textron gets $23.3 million more for SSC

DECEMBER 19, 2012 — Textron Inc., New Orleans, La., is being awarded a $23,299,975 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-12-C-2401) to exercise an option for long lead time materials, advanced planning, engineering,