Shipbuilding News


Navy Destroyer Contracts for HII & BIW

Mar 17, 2014

The Navy has announced two separate contract awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 DDG 51 destroyers to Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) and to General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW). Details as follows:Huntington Ingalls Industries Is being provided funding of $601…

New FORAN User in Brazil

Mar 14, 2014

Aliança Shipyard has acquired FORAN 3D Viewers for project control, construction and maintenance tasks. Strategically located in an area of 54,000 sqm in Niterói, alongside Baía de Guanabara (Brazil), Aliança Shipyard has experience in…

Ingalls Shipbuilding Appoint Mike Lipski VP Business Development

Mar 13, 2014

Huntington Ingalls Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding division inform that Mike Lipski will be the company's vice president of business development, effective April 1, 2014.HII explain that Lipski will be responsible for coordinating capture…

New Hospital Ship to be Classed by LR

Mar 13, 2014

Lloyd’s Register (LR) says it is honored to be the classification society of choice for Mercy Ships latest endeavour, a new 36,600 GRT hospital ship scheduled for completion in 2017, and to be named 'Atlantic Mercy'.LR explain that the hospital…

Lloyd's Register: Adjustment to BWM Convention Implementation Schedule

Mar 12, 2014

Please note: this Class News is a reissue and replaces the version sent on 10 January, 2014. The table has been amended to clarify the implementation dates for Regulation D-2 of the Ballast Water Management Convention.The International Maritime Organization’s governing body…

Korean Shipyard Names Five New Containerships

Mar 10, 2014

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), which claims to be the world’s biggest shipbuilder says that it set a new daily naming ceremony record by naming 5 containerships (ordered from Enesel) on a single day.In a simultaneous naming ceremony attended by Mr…

UASC Ups Mega-Container Ship Order to 17

Mar 10, 2014

United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) says it has taken up the option with Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) for one additional 18,000 TEU vessels, bringing the total order to 17 ships including eleven 14,000 TEU vessels and six 18,000 TEU vessels…

State-of-the-Art Dredger Launched

Mar 09, 2014

AL BAHAR C/D HUTA 12 named, launched at IHC MerwedeIHC Merwede named and launched the 23,545 kW self-propelled cutter suction dredger ‘AL BAHAR’ C/D HUTA 12 in a ceremony on March 8, 2014 at the company’s shipyard in Kinderdijk, The Netherlands…

Memorial Built for Victims of HMS Birkenhead

Mar 07, 2014

A memorial has been unveiled in Birkenhead (Wirral, Liverpool City Region, United Kingdom) dedicated to the victims of one of the worst maritime disasters of the 19th century.HMS Birkenhead, a steam frigate built by John Laird’s shipbuilders in Birkenhead…

BIMCO at Asia Pacific 2014

Mar 07, 2014

BIMCO's Chief Shipping Analyst Peter Sand will speak at Asia Pacific Maritime (APM) 2014 in Singapore on 19-21 March 2014.The title of the BIMCO contribution is “The economics of ECO-ships,” and the presentation will take place on Thursday…

SENER Opens Office in India

Mar 05, 2014

The engineering and technology group SENER has opened a division in India with offices in New Delhi, Bengaluru and Chennai. This new geographical location responds to SENER’s globalization strategy and follows the development of previous engineering…

HII Graduate 137 Shipbuilding Apprentices

Mar 03, 2014

Huntington Ingalls Industries hosted commencement exercises for the company's Apprentice School at Newport News Shipbuilding. The graduation, held at the Liberty Baptist Church Worship Center in Hampton, celebrated 137 apprentices representing 18 trades and four advanced programs…

NSRP Awards $3.3M for Shipbuilding R&D

Feb 28, 2014

The Executive Control Board of the National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP) has selected four major research and development projects for award, as part of the program's continuing mission to reduce costs associated with U. S. shipbuilding and ship repair…

Construction Begins on First LNG Containership

Feb 25, 2014

Fireworks marked the first cut of steel in a ceremony last night as construction of TOTE, Inc.’s new Marlin Class, the first liquefied natural gas (LNG)-powered containership in the world, began at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego…

Garnett H. Carnahan Passes at 84

Feb 25, 2014

Longtime Springfield and Nixa business owner Garnett H. Carnahan passed away Saturday, February 22 at Mercy Hospital as the result of a brain aneurysm. He was 84 and was surrounded by family at his passing.Born in Windsor, Mo. to the late Hugh and Modena Bowman Carnahan…

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