Red and White Fleet orders Li-Ion hybrid vessel at AAM
FEBRUARY 13, 2017 — All American Marine, Inc. (AAM), Bellingham, WA, has won a contract to build a 600-passenger aluminum monohull passenger vessel for San Francisco’s Red and White Fleet. To be
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CRS issues new report on Navy shipbuilding
FEBRUARY 9, 2017 — Shipbuilders are more than happy with the much publicized news that both the Navy and the Trump administration want to increase the size of the battle force fleet
Octopus will help Klaveness meet new emissions regs
FEBRUARY 7, 2017— Three new generation 85,000 dwt combination carriers under construction for Norwegian shipowner Torvald Klaveness at China’s Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding Co will be equipped with ABB’s Octopus marine software
MHI ponders shipbuilding spin-off
FEBRUARY 3, 2017 — Japanese broadcaster NHK reports Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) as saying that it is studying the option of spinning off its troubled shipbuilding operation into a separate company. MHI
Eimskip, Royal Arctic order ice class containerships
FEBRUARY 2, 2017 — Reykjavik, Iceland, headquartered Eimskip has been in negotiations with shipyards in China to build two 2,150 TEU container vessels and has finalized a contract with China Shipbuilding Trading
Strategic and ADSB sign MOU on aluminum vessels
FEBRUARY 2, 2017 — Triyards Group subsidiary Strategic Marine, a leading specialist shipbuilding, fabrication and engineering company, has teamed up with Abu Dhabi Ship Building PJSC (ADSB) to develop the Middle East’s
HII to kick off advance fabrication for CVN 80
FEBRUARY 1, 2017 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that it has been awarded a $25.5 million modification to an existing advance planning contract in support of advance fabrication of the aircraft
Arctech names first of Sovcomflot Sakhalin-2 support vessels
JANUARY 31, 2017 — Finland’s Arctech Helsinki Shipyard yesterday held a naming ceremony for a new ice-breaking platform supply vessel (IBSV) commissioned by Russia’s SCF Group (Sovcomflot). Named for Gennadiy Nevelskoy (1813-1876),
Eastern delivers twin Z drive tractor tug to McAllister
JANUARY 28, 2017 — Recently delivered to McAllister Towing and Transportation Co., Inc. by Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Panama City, FL, the twin Z-drive reverse tractor tug Jeffrey McAllister is named in honor
Ingalls starts fabrication of DDG 123
JANUARY 27, 2017 — Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE:HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division officially started fabrication of the Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) destroyer Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123) on Wednesday. The start of