SEPTEMBER 1, 2014 — Korean shipbuilding giant Samsung Heavy Industries has officially announced that it will merge with Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd, the first and largest engineering company in Korea. Samsung Heavy
SEPTEMBER 1, 2014 — General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, California, is being awarded a $139,953,434 modification to previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract N00024-08-C-4410 for USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52)
AUGUST 29, 2014 — Eastern Shipbuilding, Panama City, FL, has launched Columbia (ESG Hull 981), an exact steel hull replica of the historic wooden Gloucester fishing schooner of the same name that
AUGUST 26, 2014 — Classification society ABS is opening a new office in Beijing, China. It says the new office will allow further collaboration with government, industry, academic institutions and research organizations
AUGUST 25, 2014 — Cecon ASA through its subsidiary Rever Offshore AS and their ship owning company Cecon Shipping 2 AS today took delivery of the Cecon Pride from the Chantier Davie
AUGUST 25, 2014 — Ulstein Design & Solutions has received design and equipment contract from Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd, China, covering four PX121 type platform supply vessels ordered by Singapore based
AUGUST 22, 2014 — Vigor Industrial is getting set to welcome its new giant floating dry dock, the Vigorous. It is set to arrive in Portland, OR, Sunday. Fully assembled, the dry
AUGUST 21, 2014 — A contract worth in excess of £3.3 million (about $5.5 million) has been secured by Macduff Shipyards, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, from Scottish Sea Farms. The contract is for four
AUGUST 20, 2014 — Cargotec reports that its MacGregor unit has secured a new contract from Chinese shipbuilder Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding for two 100-tonne active heave-compensated subsea MacGregor cranes. The cranes will
AUGUST 19, 2014 — Technology reminiscent of Marvel’s Iron Man could become a part of the everyday shipbuilding scene. An exoskeleton developed by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] will soon be under evaluation
