OCTOBER 15, 2012—Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc., (HOS), which recently signed a contract with Bollinger Shipyards to stretch six Offshore Support Vessels for deepwater operations, has extended its newbuilding plans with orders for two
OCTOBER 12, 2012 — Two Singapore-based shipping companies have chosen Wärtsilä X72 electronically controlled low speed engines to power six new vessels ordered from Chinese shipyards. The Wärtsilä equipment will be installed
OCTOBER 10, 2012 — Covington, La., headquartered Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. (NYSE: HOS) has warded Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. a contract to convert six 200 class DP1 offshore supply vessels (OSVs), to 240
OCTOBER 9, 2012 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) announced that the company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division has delivered the composite deckhouse for the destroyer Zumwalt (DDG 1000) to the U.S. Navy. The 900-ton
OCTOBER 8, 2012 — With orders for large bulk carriers and the like few and far between, hungry Chinese shipyards are turning their attention to what once might have seemed safe niche
OCTOBER 6, 2012 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division placed a 1,026-metric ton unit — roughly the weight of six Boeing 747 airliners — onto
OCTOBER 1, 2012 —The Executive Control Board of the National Shipbuilding Research Project (NSRP) has selected 12 new R&D projects as part of the program’s core mission to reduce the costs associated
SEPTEMBER 26, 2012 — National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded an $18,293,087 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-07-C-4013) for the USS Makin Island (LHD 8) fiscal year
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012 —Singapore’s Otto Marine Limited has sold Oranda 1, a 75-meter work maintenance vessel, to an unrelated party for US $38.0 million. The vessel was simultaneously bareboat chartered back by
AUGUST 15, 2012 — General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $104,804,120 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-08-C-4410) for USS Comstock (LSD 45) fiscal 2012