Cathelco to seek U.S. Type Approval for BWTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2016 — Chesterfield, U.K., based ballast water treatment (BWT) system manufacturer Cathelco has ]submitted a Letter of Intent to the U.S. Coast Guard verifying its readiness to begin testing its

BAE San Diego to perform LCS-7 and LCS-8 PSAs

FEBRUARY 22 —BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair, San Diego, CA, is being awarded a $15,589,527 cost-plus-award-fee contract for the accomplishment of post shakedown availabilities (PSA) for the littoral combat ships USS

Arbitration Tribunal finds for Algoma in shipbuilding case

FEBRUARY 17, 2014 — St. Catharines, ON, based Algoma Central Corporation reports that the London, U.K.,  Arbitration Tribunal hearing a contract dispute involving three shipbuilding contracts between Algoma and Nantong Mingde Heavy

World’s largest ethane carriers to be ME-GI powered

FEBRUARY 16, 2016 — Five 85,000 cu.m Very Large Ethane Carriers (VLECs) will each be powered by  a single MAN B&W 6G60ME-GI main engine. The vessels have been ordered for UEC (United

VIDEO: Ingalls Shipbuilding launches LPD 27

FEBRUARY 15, 2016 — Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE:HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division has launched the company’s eleventh amphibious transport dock, Portland (LPD 27). The ship, named for Oregon’s largest city, is scheduled to

Mitsui takes $95 million hit on Teekay AHTS quartet

FEBRUARY 12, 2016 — Japan’s shipbuilder Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (MES)  is facing a $95 million loss on the four 306 ton bollard pull Ulstein SX157 design ocean going AHTS

GTT and DSME team on new LNG containment system

FEBRUARY 11, 2014 — LNG membrane containment specialist GTT (Gaztransport & Technigaz) has signed a cooperation agreement with South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) for the industrialization of its new

Navy budget: The game begins

FEBRUARY 10, 2015 — The Department of the Navy’s $164 billion FY 2017 budget submission is lower than widely expected by defense analysts. It is 3.5 percent less than last years spending

Industrial base urges earlier start of LX(R) construction

FEBRUARY 6, 2016 — Underscoring the point that Navy shipbuilding decisions are made on Capitol Hill as much as in the Pentagon, a coalition representing industrial base suppliers to the Navy’s amphibious

Crystal Cruises plans to return SS United States to service

FEBRUARY 4, 2016 — Crystal Cruises says it plans to save “America’s Flagship,” the SS United States, and “embark on the enormous undertaking of bringing the ship into compliance with the latest

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