Viking Ocean floats out its second ship at Fincantieri

JUNE 27, 2015—Viking Ocean Cruises’ second ship—the 930-passenger Viking Sea—was “floated out” at traditional ceremony on June 25, at Fincantieri’s Ancona shipyard in Italy—little more than a month after the new ocean

NNS delivers John Warner (SSN 785) ahead of schedule

JUNE 26, 2015 — Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE:HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division has delivered the submarine John Warner (SSN 785) to the U.S. Navy. Delivered two and a half months ahead of

NASSCO cuts steel for second LNG ready SEA-Vista tanker

JUNE 25, 2015 — General Dynamics NASSCO, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), today signaled the start of construction for the second of three 50,000 deadweight ton, 330,000 barrel

Harvey Gulf acquires Gulf Coast Shipyard Group

JUNE 25, 2015 — Harvey Gulf International Marine (HGIM), New Orleans, LA, announced it is launching a new affiliate, Harvey Shipyard Group, to manage its shipbuilding assets. Harvey Shipyard Group is acquiring

Newport News gets $23.8 million for CVN 77 work

JUNE 24, 2015 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) announced today that its Newport News Shipbuilding division has received a $23.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy for nuclear propulsion and complex modernization

South African yard delivers wave piercing crew boat

JUNE 24, 2015 — South Africa’s Veecraft Marine shipyard in Cape Town has delivered Benreoch, a 30 m Incat Crowther wave piercing catamaran utility craft developed specifically for crew transfer to offshore

All American Marine set to double in size

JUNE 23, 2015 — The Port of Bellingham, WA, is poised to change the layout of 7.66 acres of industrial property in Fairhaven and build new infrastructure to support the expansion of

Fincantieri cuts steel for its largest ship yet

JUNE 23, 2015 — Geneva, Switzerland, based MSC Cruises and shipbuilder Fincantieri yesterday cut the first steel for the cruise line’s next generation  MSC Seaside in a ceremony at Fincantieri’s Monfalcone, Italy,

Saft to supply battery systems for hybrid ferry

JUNE 23, 2015 — Bagnolet, France, headquartered Saft S.A. has won a contract to supply state-of-the-art Li-ion (lithium ion) battery systems to Rotterdam headquarterd Imtech Marine which (as we reported earlier) will

Walvis Bay shipyard drydocks its first Panamax vessel

JUNE 22, 2015 — The Elgin Brown & Hamer (EBH) Namibia shipyard has docked the first Panamax size ship in its new Panamax capacity floating dry dock Namship 3. The ship that

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