DECEMBER 23, 2014—General Dynamics NASSCO, San Diego, CA, will build its fourth Mobile Landing Platform and second configured as an Afloat Forward Staging Base (AFSB) for mine countermeasure (MCM) helicopters and special operations
DECEMBER 23, 2014 — The Navy has awarded a contract for the towing and dismantling of the decommissioned aircraft carrier Ranger (CV 61) to International Shipbreaking Ltd. Under the contract, the company
DECEMBER 23, 2014 — ThyssenKrupp has entered an agreement to sell the Emder Werft und Dockbetriebe shipyard in Emden, Germany, to Hamburg based private equity firm Seafort Advisors GmbH. ThyssenKrupp says it
DECEMBER 23, 2014 — Lockport, LA, based Bollinger Shipyards today announced that Ben Bordelon will assume the duties of Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the company. Ben Bordelon, along with
DECEMBER 22, 2014 — Spanish shipbuilder Astilleros Gondan last week launched the sail training ship that its Figueras Shipyard (Castropol) is building for the British Marine Society & Sea Cadets. The launch
DECEMBER 22, 2014—The LNG fueled ferry ordered at China’s Guangzhou Shipyard International last month by Sweden’s Rederi AB Gotland (see earlier story) will have a Wärtsilä integrated solution includes a complete LNG
DECEMBER 19, 2014 — Norway’s Havyard Ship Technology AS has signed a contract with the Danish shipping company ESVAGT for the design and building of a further Havyard 832 SOV wind farm
DECEMBER 19, 2014 — Following two employees being critically injured, when two cranes collapsed at the VT Halter Marine shipyard in Pascagoula on June 25, 2014, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational
DECEMBER 18, 2014 – Russian newspaper Vedomosti reports that German shipbuilder Nordic Yards, together with an unnamed local partner, has set up a Brazilian company, Nordic Yards do Brasil. Nordic Yards —
DECEMBER 18, 2014 – Longer than four soccer fields and displacing six times as much water as the largest aircraft carrier, Shell’s Prelude FLNG (floating liquefied natural gas) platform will be the
