SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 — Vigor Marine, Portland, Oregon, has been awarded a $7,066,873 firm-fixed-price contract for an emergent dry-docking of USS Howard (DDG-83) to accomplish repairs to the port controllable pitch propeller
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016—While the U.S. is still years away from building a new heavy icebreaker for its fleet, the Finnish Transport Agency took delivery today of the I/B Polaris, first icebreaker capable
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 — Hamburg’s iconic Blohm+Voss shipyard is being acquired by family-owned and Bremen-based shipbuilder Luerssen. Since its 2012 sale by ThyssenKrupp AG, Blohm + Voss has been a portfolio company
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 — The two LNG-fueled handy sized bulkers ordered by Finland’s ESL Shipping last November (see earlier story) will now be built at Sinotrans & CSC main yard, Jinling Shipyard,
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 — A prototype of Damen Shipyards Group’s composites-construction water bus will be undergoing sea trials over the next few weeks. It is the first vessel for public transportation produced at
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 — Rolls-Royce is to provide propulsion and deck machinery to five cruise ships being built by Fincantieri at its Monfalcone and Ancona shipyards in Italy. The firm orders cover
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016 — Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) reports that its cruise joint venture in China has signed a non-binding memorandum of agreement (MOA) to order the industry’s
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 — In a ceremony at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, today, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced that the next Freedom and Independence variant Littoral
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 — Wärtsilä will supply a broad range of integrated automation, navigation and dynamic positioning equipment, as well as the complete uninterruptable power systems (UPS) for four new cruise ships.
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016 — Bisso Towboat Co., Inc. Luling, LA, has taken delivery of its newest ship-assist tug, the 4,480 hp ASD tractor tug Mr. Ruben. The Mr. Ruben is the first
