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The world’s biggest shipping companies are plowing their pandemic windfalls into orders for new vessels on an unprecedented scale, making an industry known for hair-raising cycles of boom and bust more vulnerable in the latest downturn. Container carriers like MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co., A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, CMA CGM SA and Hapag-Lloyd AG — all backed by… Read More
HII‘s (NYSE: HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division will help the U.S. Navy maintain Nimitz- and Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers under a potential five-year, $528.4 million contract. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award will include repair and modernization of the nuclear-powered ships visiting or stationed in San Diego, HII said Monday. NNS, which designed the Nimitz- and Gerald Ford-class ships, will also respond to Chief… Read More
Explore the largest military shipbuilding companies, building the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard fleet and ensuring maritime strength and security. Strengthening maritime presence has consistently remained a key priority of the U.S. federal government. In pursuit of this objective, the military engages in contracts with the largest shipbuilding companies to build world-class naval ships equipped… Read More
HOUSTON, July 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ: GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States, announced that President Biden attended the steel cutting ceremony today and initiated the first cut of steel for the construction of the Acadia Great Lakes’ first offshore wind rock placement… Read More
In a speech before hundreds of unionized Philly Shipyard workers on July 20, President Joe Biden reaffirmed his longstanding support for the Jones Act by declaring “Not on my watch!” to the idea that foreign-flag vessels would take jobs from American ships and mariners. Biden was in Philadelphia for the steel cutting on the first… Read More
The Shipbuilders Council of America (SCA) today announced Conrad Shipyard received both SCA’s 2023 “Excellence in Safety” and “Improvement in Safety” awards. SCA, the national association representing the U.S. shipyard industry, honors shipbuilding and repair facilities with annual safety awards for the enhancement of operations and promotion of safety and accident prevention. Through its proactive… Read More
Eastern Shipbuilding Group has been contracted by Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. to convert a 280-foot offshore supply vessel (OSV) to a service operation vessel (SOV) to meet the growing demand of the U.S. offshore wind market, as well as to serve the demands of the petro-energy flotel market. The vessel was constructed by Eastern Shipbuilding… Read More
Louisiana-based shipbuilder Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors LLC has secured a $624.6 million contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to construct cutting-edge oceanographic research vessels. This contract includes the development of at least two state-of-the-art ships, with an option for two additional vessels, to enhance NOAA’s existing fleet and address the need for modernization…. Read More
Westlake, Louisiana-based, family-owned dredging company Mike Hooks has taken delivery of a new cutter suction dredger (CSD). Named Lorraine Hooks after the wife of company founder Mike Hooks, the non-self-propelled, 300- by 50-foot (91.4- by 15.2-metre) vessel was designed and built by SPI/Mobile Pulley Works (SPI/MPW) of Mobile, Alabama, with the cooperation of Netherlands-based C-Job Naval Architects… Read More
Cranford, New Jersey-based marine projects company Weeks Marine (WMI) recently took delivery of a new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) built by the Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG) of Panama City, Florida. R.B. Weeks was designed by Dutch engineering firm Royal IHC in compliance to Lloyd’s Register rules and is the second TSHD in a series to… Read More
The City of Valdez, AK just took delivery of a Mud Cat^^® 40E for their wastewater lagoons. The dredge is pumping bio-sludge with a 1.1specific gravity sitting at 7% solids in-situ, a distance of 600 ft. (183m)with 4 ft. (1.2m) of terminal elevation at a maximum flow of 900gpm into geotextile filter bags. The 40E… Read More
An American contractor welcomes a new dredger to its fleet as construction is underway on rock installation vessels and a heavy transporter for operations in Asian waters. A Dutch engineering firm has meanwhile been selected to build a large capacity hopper dredger for a local customer. Mike Hooks christens newest dredger Westlake, Louisiana-based dredging company… Read More
Honored to make the news all day yesterday in Lake Charles, LA – thank you KPLC-TV’s Andrea Robinson and Ana Barras for the amazing coverage! Special shout-out to Mike McMahon and Leonel Silva, Jr. CSHO, CSST, SSH, a.k.a. “Sticker,” for explaining what the Dredge Lorraine Hooks means for the Hooks family of employees and what she will do for Southwest Louisiana. Source
Austal USA began construction on the Navy’s Auxiliary Floating Dry Dock Medium (AFDM) at the company’s Gulf Coast ship manufacturing facility last week. AFDM is the third program to begin construction on Austal USA’s state-of-the-art steel assembly line following T-ATS 11 and 12 – the first two of four U.S. Navy Towing, Salvage, and Rescue… Read More
ONAWAY, MICH. – Moran Iron Works (MIW) and Ann Arbor-based Watermaster North America (WMNA) continue their partnership to manufacture a second Finnish-engineered AMD 5000 Amphibious Multipurpose Dredging machine. The Watermaster has been sold worldwide for over 35 years but not in the U.S.A. until 2020 when MIW fabricated the first one for WMNA, making it… Read More