CBO takes a hard look at Navy shipbuilding plan
JANUARY 4, 2017 — Shipbuilders and the Navy are hopeful that the incoming Trump administration will make good on a campaign commitment to a 350 ship Navy. However, the non-partisan Congressional Budget
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New LNG ship design promises 3-5% fuel savings
JANUARY 20, 2016 — In an effort to gain fuel efficiencies even better than those currently being delivered by shipbuilders, BG Group is developing an LNG ship hullform that, it says, promises
Austal hosts LCS 16 keel laying ceremony
JANUARY 12, 2016 – Austal USA’s Mobile, AL, shipyard hosted a keel-laying ceremony yesterday for the future USS Tulsa (LCS 16), the first significant milestone in the ship’s construction. LCS 16 is
NASSCO gets $31.7 million mod to LHA 6 contract
APRIL 23, 2014 — General Dynamics, National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. (NASSCO), San Diego, CA, has been awarded a $31,773,194 modification to previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee contract (N00024-13-C-4404) for USS America (LHA 6)
Navy awards Bath Iron Works funding for DDG 122
APRIL 1, 2015 —The U.S. Navy has awarded funding for the construction of DDG 122, the FY 2015 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer under contract at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works. This $610.4 million
FMC’s Doyle: “Plenty of LNG for marine fuel”
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 — If anyone had any doubts about the ongoing availability of LNG as a marine fuel, Federal Maritime Commissioner William P. Doyle laid them to rest today, noting that
Wärtsilä packages picked for Siem PSV quartet
FEBRUARY 17, 2014 — Like two vessels ordered earlier at Poland’s Remontowa Shipbuilding, the four further 89 m x 19 m platform supply vessels ordered at the shipyard by Siem Offshore (see
Navy releases FY 2014 budget details
APRIL 11, 2013 — The Department of the Navy yesterday released its proposed $155.8 billion budget for fiscal year 2014. Rear Adm. Joseph Mulloy, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for budget,