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Seadrill exercises options for two more jack-ups

MARCH 5, 2013 — Seadrill has exercised fixed price options for the construction of two high specification jack-up drilling rigs at Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Offshore Co., Ltd. (DSIC Offshore) in China. The

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Marine Hydraulics awarded $6.9 million for Cole SRA

MARCH 4, 2013 — Marine Hydraulics International, Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $6,951,085 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-10-C-4405) to exercise options for the accomplishment of the USS Cole (DDG 67)

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Sinopacific to build AHTS quartet for Russian owner

MARCH 4, 2013 — China’s Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group has secured a contract to build four AHTS offshore support vessels for Russian shipowner, FEMCO. The vessels will be built to Sinopacific’s own SPA150

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Peene Werft delivers Swedish Coast Guard vessel

FEBRUARY 28, 2013 — Germany’s troubled P+S Werften, which is currently under insolvency administration, has handed over coast guard vessel KBV 033 to the Swedish Coast Guard in a ceremony at its

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Big questions on costs of Canada’s NSPS

FEBRUARY 28, 2013 — A report published today by Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) indicates that the Canadian Government may have massively underestimated the costs of its National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS).

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Obama visits NNS to warn of sequester dangers

FEBRUARY 27, 2013 — With shipyards and shipyard workers likely to take some heavy hits as a result of looming sequestration cuts to defense spending, President Barack Obama yesterday used Huntington Ingalls