Shipyard News

Cindy Pasentine Hull Christens FMT 3242 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 ...
   
USS Miami fire 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 ...
   
Vancouver Shipyards 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 ...
   
Jaya 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 ...
 
 
submerge--trial-Forte JULY 19, 2012 — Even though it failed to make a payment due on June 20, 2012, Fairstar Heavy Transport N.V., says there is "no indication" that a newbuilding contract it entered into on May 3, 2011 has been canceled. Signed with China Shipbuilding Trading Company Limited (CSTC) and Guangzhou Shipyard International C ...
   
CVN-79 Kennedy JULY 19, 2012 — Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding Division (NNS) is being awarded a $43,418,660 modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-2116) for the procurement of additional long lead time material for the future John F. Kennedy (CVN 79).   The funds awarded to NNS will be u ...
   
Grandon JULY 18, 2012 — Great Lakes Shipyard, Cleveland, Ohio, Great Lakes Shipyard has completed repairs on the Ohio Department of Natural Resources research vessel Grandon. The R/V Grandon is part of the Fairport Harbor Fisheries Research Station for the ODNR's Division of Wildlife. Its primary focus is assessing and managing fish population ...
   
Samoa shipyard 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 operator MYD Marine as "the largest commercial shipyard and yacht repair facility in the South Pacific." However, MYD Marine filed for bankruptcy protection ...
   

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