Japanese consortium takes stake in Brazilian shipbuilder

OCTOBER 22, 2013 — Five Japanese companies are to take a 30 percent stake in Brazilian shipbuilder ECOVIX — Engevix Construções Oceânicas S.A. They are shipbuilders Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), Imabari

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

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

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