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

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

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