May 31, 2013 — General Dynamics NASSCO has entered into a contract for the design and construction of four 50,000 deadweight ton LNG-conversion-ready Jones Act product carriers with a 330,000 barrel cargo
MAY 31, 2013 — Canada’s Great Lakes fleet is being rejuvenated with the addition of ships by three major carriers, Canada Steamship Lines (CSL), Algoma Central and Fednav. According to CSL President Rod
MAY 29, 2013 — Houston based Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (NYSE: DO) today announced an agreement with South Korean shipbuilding giant Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. to build a new Moss CS60E
MAY 29, 2013 — Brazil’s Estaleiro Atlantico Sul (EAS) has delivered the Suezmax tanker Zumbi dos Palmares to Petrobras subsidiary Transpetro. The vessel is the second ship built by EAS as part
MAY 28, 2013 — Wärtsilä Yuchai Engine Co., Ltd, a joint venture owned 50/50 by Wärtsilä and Yuchai Marine Power Co. Ltd., today began construction of its new production facilities with a
MAY 28, 2013 — In another demonstration that depressed world shipbuilding prices can bring out the bargain hunters, Dole Food Company, Inc. (NYSE: DOLE) today announced that its Board of Directors has
MAY 23, 2013 — Saying that the Navy’s 30 Year Shipbuilding Plan has “no basis in reality,” Congressman J. Randy Forbes (R.-VA), Chairman of the Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee of the
MAY 22, 2013 — Damen Shipyards and Italian partner yard Cantiere Navale Vittoria S.p.a. are to build two Stan Patrol 5509 patrol boats for Italy’s Guardia di Finanza, a law enforcement agency
MAY 21, 2013 — Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE:HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division last week authenticated the keel of the fifth U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutter, James (WMSL 754) in a ceremony at
MAY 9, 2013 — The 113,000 dwt Long Range 2 (LR2) product tankers ordered by Teekay Tankers at STX Offshore & Shipbuilding last month (see earlier story) will each be powered by
