Eastern Shipbuilding launches HOS Riverbend

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013 — Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc, Panama City, FL, this month launched the HOS Riverbend (H204) for Hornbeck Offshore Services, LLC.   Those attending the launching ceremonies at Eastern’s Allanton

Azerbaijan inaugurates new Baku Shipyard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013 — The President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev today officially opened the new 62,000 sq.m Baku Shipyard. The new shipbuilding facility has been jointly developed by Singapore’s Keppel Offshore &

GD makes leadership changes at shipyards

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013 — General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) says that Jeffrey S. Geiger, president of General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, will become president of General Dynamics Electric Boat effective November 4, 2013,

Harvey Deep-Sea gets GoM gigs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013 — DOF Subsea Group reports that it has recently been awarded multiple subsea projects for the chartered in vessel Harvey Deep-Sea in the Gulf of Mexico. DOF Subsea signed

Brazilian submarine construction program moves ahead

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 — Brazil’s shipbuilding ambitions are not confined to tankers and various vessels to support Petrobras’s offshore activity. They also extend to nuclear submarine construction. A reminder of this comes

China picks Wärtsilä propulsion for ocean rescue vessels

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 — Wärtsilä  is supply the main propulsion system for four new ocean rescue vessels being built at the CSSC Guangzhou Huang-Pu Shipbuilding Company Ltd shipyard in China for delivery

Eastern Shipbuilding signs FORAN agreement with SENER

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 — Panama City, FL, based Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. has entered into a license agreement with Spain’s SENER Ingeniería y Sistemas S.A. to use SENER’s FORAN CAD/CAM System and

STX Finland to close Rauma Shipyard

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013 — STX Finland is to shutter its Rauma Shipyard by the end of next summer. Its functions will be shifted the larger Turku Shipyard in a restructuring that will

Ingalls Shipbuilding starts fabrication on DDG 114

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013 — The Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) has started fabrication of the U.S. Navy’s next Aegis guided missile destroyer, Ralph Johnson (DDG 114). Ship’s sponsor Georgeann

Bergen Group shipyards reborn as NorYards

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 —  The shipbuilding division of Norway’s Bergen Group is about to start a new life, as NorYards AS. It will be 51% percent owned by Calexco, a company with

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