Stressing efforts to reduce costs and make delivery on time, officials with Northrop Grumman Newport News celebrated a construction milestone Thursday on its latest Virginia-class submarine, the North Carolina. The shipyard has finished welding the submarine’s four hull sections into a single unit,
The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and the Program Executive Officer (PEO) Aircraft Carriers held a signature and awards ceremony Sept. 5 at the Washington Navy Yard to commemorate the certification of the ship specifications for the CVN 78 Class Aircraft Carriers, which makes up the CVN 21 prog
US Coast Guard in Ft. Lauderdale have spent Thursday night figuring out how to move a makeshift tourist attraction off the beach. The “Clipper Lasco”, is 645-foot cargo ship carrying 30,000 metric tons of bauxite, the main component in aluminum. According to the Coast Guard, the ship was inbound to
A United Nations human rights investigator on Thursday called for Ivory Coast to fully probe toxic waste unloaded by a ship, saying it should lead to prosecutions of those responsible and compensation for victims. The statement was issued by Okechkwu Ibeanu, U.N. special rapporteur on adverse effect
A gas discovery made by Statoil on the Tornerose structure in the Barents Sea is under consideration in connection with an expansion of the Hammerfest LNG plant in northern Norway.
Eivind Kolding, head of A.P.M
After the successful sea-trials, the breakthrough Wally 143 crossed the Adriatic Sea to reach the beautiful Kornati Archipelago of Croatia, for the photo shoot. Esense is the 43-meter (143-foot) high-performance sloop characterised by the innovative design both on deck and below deck, combining vint
SUBSEA 7 INC. (OSE Symbol: SUB) announced today that it has been awarded a contract valued at approximately US $ 200 million by Esso Angola Ltd. for work associated with the Kizomba C Saxi-Batuque project in Block 15 offshore Angola. The Saxi-Batuque project will be developed using a conversion FPSO
The Suez Canal has reopened to very large vessels including supertankers after the authorities introduced special procedures in the deeper eastern channel, which is partially blocked by a sunken dredger. The authority had earlier turned away 10 large vessels because they were too big to go through t
Russia’s coast guard detained a South Korean fishing trawler with 31 people aboard after firing warning shots Thursday, alleging that it was poaching in Russian waters, news agencies reported. The trawler was one of four that were sighted in Russia’s economic zone near Russian-held islands northeast
South Korea will spend about $156 million to develop weapons and radar systems for a new fleet of 2,300-ton frigates over the next five years, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said yesterday. “The combat systems will be installed on a new fleet of Ulsan-I warships to replace the
The first phase of the Jiangnan Changxing Shipbuilding Base has been finished and is already in operation on Changxing Island, Shanghai. Built by the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), it has three production lines and four boatyards capable of holding 300,000-ton ships. Almost unparallele
BATH, Maine – Bath Iron Works broke with the past practice of consulting with the Machinist Union beforehand when it announced the layoffs of 30 workers, the union president said. The union is disappointed that it was not consulted, Local S6 President Mike Keenan said. In the past, discussions have
Kalmar, the business area providing container handling solutions within Cargotec, has made an agreement to acquire its Belgian distributor Catracom. Catracom has been distributing Kalmar equipment since 1985. Catracom has a strong service set-up in the port of Antwerp as well as equipment rental bus
