OCTOBER 5, 2016 — The Executive Control Board of the National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP) has selected 17 panel projects for funding awards, as part of the program’s continuing mission to reduce
OCTOBER 5, 2016 — Rolls-Royce Power Systems is to supply 14 of its highest-power MTU diesel engines to seven new multi-purpose ocean-going patrol vessels being built for the Italian Navy by shipbuilder
OCTOBER 3, 2016 — Shell Western LNG B.V. (Shell) has signed a supply agreement with Carnival Corporation & plc to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to fuel two of the world’s largest
OCTOBER 2, 2016 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that its Newport News Shipbuilding division has received a $12 million contract from the U.S. Navy for planning work on the aircraft carrier
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 — The Vane Brothers Company, Baltimore, MD, has taken delivery of the tugboat Baltimore from St. Johns Ship Building in Palatka, FL. It is the third of eight vessels
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 — The two LNG-fueled handy sized bulkers ordered by Finland’s ESL Shipping last November (see earlier story) will now be built at Sinotrans & CSC main yard, Jinling Shipyard,
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 — Houston heaquartered Zentech, Inc. says that the azimuth thrusters for its new Z-210 self-elevating mobile offshore unit will be supplied by Thrustmaster of Texas. The thrusters are driven
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016 — Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) reports that its cruise joint venture in China has signed a non-binding memorandum of agreement (MOA) to order the industry’s
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 — In a ceremony at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, today, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced that the next Freedom and Independence variant Littoral
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016 — GD NASSCO’s recent $511 million contract to build two 265 m LNG-capable ConRo vessels for Matson (see earlier story) is providing Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co.
