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Nordic Yards has plans for new shipyard in Brazil

DECEMBER 18, 2014 – Russian newspaper Vedomosti reports that German shipbuilder Nordic Yards, together with an unnamed local partner, has set up a Brazilian company, Nordic Yards do Brasil. Nordic Yards —

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China set to deploy giant Coast Guard vessel

DECEMBER 16, 2014 — China, which has maritime boundary disputes with just about all its neighbors and not least Japan, is set to deploy what is being trumpeted as the largest coast

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CBO analyzes Navy 2015 shipbuilding plan

DECEMBER 15, 2014 — The total costs of carrying out the Navy’s 2015 shipbuilding plan—an average of about $21 billion per year (adjusted for inflation to 2014 dollars) over the next 30

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West Virginia steel plant starts Bulb Flat production

DECEMBER 15, 2014 — Bulb Flats offer significant benefits in shipbuilding stiffener applications. Now, Steel of West Virginia, Inc. has started production of Bulb Flats at its Huntington, WV, steel making facility.

HII gets $9.9 million more for submarine R&D

DECEMBER 10, 2014 — Huntington Ingalls Inc., Newport News, VA, is being awarded a $9,972,928 modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-11-C-2103) for engineering and technical design services to support research and

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Australia hires BAE, Navantia and Raytheon to fix AWD

DECEMBER 9, 2014 — The Australian Government has announced a plan to fix the country’s troubled naval shipbuilding industry. The announcement came  less than two weeks after Defense Minister Senator David Johnston

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ABB supplies solutions for heavy lift pipelayer

DECEMBER 9, 2014 — A 5,000T heavy-lift pipelay construction vessel on order at China’s Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group Co., Ltd (WSIC) is to have an ABB equipment package that includes electrical propulsion,