Ingalls delivers DDG 1000’s composite deckhouse

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

Hungry Chinese yards turn focus from bulkers to OSVs

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

Newport News Shipbuilding crane makes largest lift yet

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

NSRP to fund 12 new shipbuilding R&D projects

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

NASSCO gets $18.3 million more for LHD 8 PMA

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

Otto Marine sells, charters back, work maintenance vessel

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

NASSCO awarded $105 million LSD 45 contract mod

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

NASSCO awarded $105 million LSD 45 contract mod

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

Bordelon Marine builds series of new PSVs

AUGUST 10, 2012—The first in a new series of DP-2 Platform Supply/Multi-Purpose Supply Vessels under construction for Bordelon Marine in Houma, LA, is expected to be delivered in January 2013. Called the

Russia’s United Shipbuilding gets $1 billion order for Sovcomflot seismic ships

 25, 2012 — Russia’s RIA Novosti reported Friday that United Shipbuilding Company (OSC) is to build four seismic ships for Sovcomflot. The news agency reported OSC Deputy General Director Roman Trotsenko as

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