Baker Hughes contracts first Bordelon Stingray
OCTOBER 10, 2013 — Bordelon Marine has secured a term contract with Baker Hughes to utilize the first vessel in its new Stingray series, the MV Connor Bordelon, as a well stimulation
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Halifax Shipyard wins commercial ship repair contracts
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013 — Canada’s Irving Shipbuilding today confirmed two new commercial ship repair contracts for Halifax Shipyard that will require up to approximately 140 hourly employees. MV Oceanex Sanderling, a container/cargo
Austal USA wins shipyard safety award
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013 — American Equity Underwriters, Inc. (AEU) this week presented Austal USA, a member of the American Longshore Mutual Association (ALMA), with its 2012 Safety and Health Award for a
“K” Line orders widest car carriers ever built
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013 — Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (“K” Line) is to build four next generation car carriers that will be the widest ever built, with a beam of 37-38 m. Japanese
CVN 71 completes four-year RCOH at Newport News
AUGUST 29, 2013 — Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII), redelivered the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) to the U.S. Navy today. The redelivery
NNS installs final CVN 78 aircraft elevator
AUGUST 15, 2013 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has installed the third and final aircraft elevator on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford
CNO comes to the defense of LCS program
JULY 29, 2013 — With the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) acquisition program coming under scrutiny following publication of a critical GAO report (see earlier story), top Navy leadership including the Chief
Ingalls delivers DDG 1001 launch system assemblies
JULY 24, 2013 — Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE:HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division has delivered the final aft peripheral vertical launch system (PVLS) assemblies to the U.S. Navy for the Zumwalt-class destroyer Michael Monsoor
Scorpio Bulkers orders its first ships
JULY 24, 2013 — The newest member of Emanuele Lauro’s Scorpio Group, Scorpio Bulkers Inc., which listed on the Oslo OTC just this month under the symbol SALT, reports that it has
Senators tour Newport News Shipbuilding
JULY 22, 2013 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) gave U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) a tour of its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division, last week. Senator Durbin is