Shipyard News

AUGUST 3, 2012 — Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ: GLDD) has signed a contract with shipbuilder Signal International, Inc. for the construction of a 15,000-cubic-yard-capacity trailing suction hopper barge and 14,000-horsepower tug. Together, the two units will function as an articulated tug and barge ("A ...

AUGUST 2, 2012 — U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis was front and center when representatives of the Newport News Shipbuilding Apprentice School attended a Department of Labor national apprenticeship summit. Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that the school was ...

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 contract (N00024-06-C-2222) for the procurement of the detail design and construction of Landing Platform Dock ship (L ...

JULY 27, 2012 — General Dynamics, NASSCO, Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $115,016,340 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-4416) for amphibious landing ship USS Oak Hill (LSD 51) to extended drydocking, modernization, upgrades, repairs and alterations to several shipboard systems such as the engineering cont ...

JULY 25, 2012 —Trinity Offshore, LLC and FMT Industries, LLC have christened and launched FMT 3242, the first of ten 297 ft 6 in x 54 ft x 12 ft, 30,000 barrel tank barges in festivities held yesterday at TY Offshore's Gulfport, Mississippi shipyard. The naming was carried out by ...

JULY 23, 2012 — Casey James Fury, a civilian employee working as a painter and sandblaster at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, has been charged with two counts of arson in relation to fires aboard the submarine USS Miami. The fires, which broke on May 23 and June 16  while the submarine was undergoing work at the shipyard, are est ...

JULY 20, 2012 —IFS North America reports that Seaspan Shipyards has selected IFS Applications as its shipbuilding materials requirements planning (MRP) solution. IFS Applications was chosen because it provides a powerful project-based solution (PBS) with the ability to control cost and schedule in real-time, enh ...

JULY 20, 2012 — Jaya Shipbuilding and Engineering Pte. Ltd., the shipbuilding subsidiary of Singapore's Jaya Holdings, has signed an agreement with IHC Merwede Asia Pacific that enables IHC's high-specification offshore vessels to be produced by Jaya at its shipyards in Singapore and Batam, Indonesia. As part of the wide-ranging agreement, I ...