u.s. shipbuilding

A fuel-shipping firm backed by Blackstone Group LP (BX) has ordered two $130-million tankers from a San Diego shipyard, but there is a catch: the firm

The office of U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu (D-La.), acting as chair of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, announced Friday that the USCG has

Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO), one of the industry’s largest, most diverse and dynamic marine transportation solutions providers, announced the addition

While the strength of American Shipyards has been in steady decline for decades, there are a few that remain profitable and, at least one, is expanding. BAE

Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. (NYSE: HOS) announced Tuesday that it has expanded a massive U.S.-built, owned and operated OSV newbuild program and has

Foss Maritime on Tuesday announced plans to build the first three vessels of its new Arctic Class of tugs as the company responds to growing demand and new

The U.S. Navy is underestimating the cost of its proposed 30-year shipbuilding program by 19 percent, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said in a

The three new 64-car, 750 passenger ferries constructed by US Fab, a Vigor Industrial new-build subsidiary won the regional “Under Budget, Large

On Friday, 22 June 2012, Mr. Joseph Rella – Austal USA President and Chief Operating Officer resigned and the Board of Directors accepted his

Lockport, La. . . .  Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. was awarded the 2011 “Award for Excellence in Safety” by the Shipbuilders Council of America for

The head of Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. (HII) said Wednesday that a new round of enforced Pentagon budget cuts could thin the shipbuilder’s

Keppel AmFELS, a Brownsville, Texas-based subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd, has won a contract from Mexico’s Perforadora Central SA de CV

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced the recipients of $9.98 million in grants to 15 small shipyards throughout the United States to help pay

Combination to Further Strengthen Maritime Industry and Jobs in Alaska and Across the Pacific Northwest   Alaska Ship and Drydock Inc. (ASD) and Vigor

– By Vigor Marine They don’t call it “shipping” for nothing. Worldwide, as much as 90 percent of the goods that move around the globe

On January 10, 2012, Austal’s Mobile, Alabama shipyard completed the launch of the second 127-metre Independence-Variant Littoral Combat Ship,

Diamond Offshore said today that one of its subsidiaries has entered into a $300 million contract with Keppel Offshore and Marine for the construction of a

The U.S. Maritime Administration has announced that $9.98 million in federal funding is now available to qualified small shipyards in the U.S. Marad says the

Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. (NYSE: HOS) announced today the winners of construction contracts for sixteen high-specification offshore supply vessels as

COVINGTON, La.,- Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. (NYSE: HOS) announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a new vessel construction program for