Detyens wins $8.9 million cable layer contract

Detyens Shipyards Inc., North Charleston, S.C., has been awarded an $8,991,045 firm-fixed-price contract for a 90-calendar day shipyard availability. The work to be performed provides for services for the regular overhaul and

Commercial vessel exits dr dock

Austal USA reports booming ship repair business at new West Campus

Following its September 2020 acquisition of additional waterfront along the Mobile River in Mobile, Ala., Austal USA was quick to established a ship repair facility that, it reports, has had a booming

LCS 21 launch

BAE Jacksonville gets $25 million LCS 21 PSA award

BAE Systems Jacksonville Ship Repair LLC, Jacksonville, Fla., has been awarded a $25,079,996 cost-plus-award-fee modification on to exercise an option to previously awarded contract N00024-20-C-2320 for the accomplishment of post shakedown availability

Ribbon cutting

Eastern Shipbuilding celebrates opening of new repair facility

Panama City, Fla., headquartered Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. (ESG) yesterday hosted the grand opening of its Port St. Joe, Fla., (PSJ) facility. The new facility adds an additional 40-acre site to the

Ballast water being discharged

BWTS installation clock is ticking

Shipowners who are dragging their heels on ballast water treatment system installations in hopes of saving money could end up paying a much higher price in the long run. That caution comes

Detyens wins $8.7 million MSC contract

Detyens Shipyards Inc., North Charleston, S.C., has been awarded an $8,762,834 firm-fixed-price contract for a 50-calendar day shipyard availability. The work to be performed provides for services for the mid-term availability of

USS San Diego

LPD 22 contract could be worth $105 million to BAE San Diego

BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair, San Diego, Calif., has been awarded a $90,267,436 firm-fixed-price contract for the execution of the USS San Diego (LPD 22) fiscal 2021 docking selected restricted availability.

USNS Fall River

Colonna’s books MSC contract worth potential $12 million

Colonna’s Shipyard Inc., Norfolk, Va., has been awarded a $9,405,299 Military Sealift Command contract for a 90-calendar day shipyard availability for the regularly scheduled overhaul and drydocking of the expeditionary fast transport

MARAD issues U.S. Maritime Alert

New MARAD report: U.S. shipyards support $42.4 billion in GDP

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) has released a new report—The Economic Importance of the U.S. Private Shipbuilding and Repairing Industry—that measures the economic importance of the shipbuilding and repairing

Round bottomed dive boat in Navy's oldest floating dry-dock, the Dynamic (AFDL 6), which routinely docks Landing Craft Utility (LCUs) and other flat-bottom craft.

Docking a dive boat is a first for Navy’s oldest floating dry dock

The Navy’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC) in Norfolk, Va., used its floating dry dock Dynamic (AFDL 6) to dock a dive boat on April 15. Delivered in 1949 by Chicago Bridge

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