SEPTEMBER 25, 2012 — Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced today that the first Armstrong-class Auxiliary General Oceanographic Research (AGOR) ship will be named Neil Armstrong. Mabus named the future R/V
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012 — General Dynamics Bath Iron Works shipyard, Bath, Maine, is being awarded a $38,936,397 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee Navy contract (N00024-11-C-2306) exercising options for DDG 1000 class
AUGUST 24, 2012 — Finland’s Pemamek Oy Ltd was recently awarded a contract by Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, for construction and delivery of a new micro panel welding robot line. To be commissioned
AUGUST 16, 2012 — Vigor Industrial’s expansion plans kicked into the next phase with the opening of a new $31 million assembly hall and production center at Ketchikan Shipyard at Alaska Ship
AUGUST 6, 2012 — Government of India owned Cochin Shipyard Limited last week launched two platform supply vessels that it is building for a European client. Bearing the shipyard Hull Nos. BY
AUGUST 2, 2012—The 4,500 dwt Starnav Perseus, the first of four GPA 688SC PSVs (Petrobras PSV 4500), was recently launched at Brazilian shipyard Detroit Brasil Ltda., a subsidiary of Detroit Chile.
JULY 28, 2012—The day before christening the ninth Landing Platform Dock ship in the San Antonio Class, Huntington Ingalls Inc., Pascagoula, MS, was awarded a $1.514 billion fixed-price-incentive modification to previously awarded
JULY 26, 2012 — Cardiff, U.K., based Graig Group has taken delivery of the the first of two Seahorse 35 class vessels building for Graig and partners at Jiangdong Shipyard, Wu Hu,
JULY 23, 2012 — Singapore’s Keppel Shipyard Ltd (Keppel Shipyard) has secured three conversion contracts with an initial combined value of S$103 million (about US$82 million). The contracts are from PTSC Asia
JUNE 17, 2012 — With a 3,000 ton Crandall Marine Railway able to handle vessels up to 360 ft, the shipyard in Satala, near Pago Pago, American Samoa, was described by former