Gulf Coast shipyards recovering from Katrina’s fury but not yet at full strength, executive says. One year after Hurricane Katrina, Northrop Grumman Corp.’s Gulf Coast shipyards are recovering ahead of schedule but still aren’t at full strength, the company’s top shipbuilding official said on the an
The first ship to be built at Portsmouth’s naval base in nearly four decades, the HMS Clyde, is to be officially named this week. The traditional ceremony will be carried out by Lesley Dunt, wife of the Director of Defence Estates, Vice Admiral Peter Dunt. The ship, which has been built by support s
The Sri Lankan military says it has sunk 12 Tamil Tiger boats and killed 80 rebels in a sea battle off the northern Jaffna peninsula. The Tamil Tigers have not yet confirmed any casualties but said two government boats had been sunk off Kankesanturai. Witnesses said the battle had raged all night an
A warship has been named as Newcastle’s official Royal Navy ship even though she will not launch until January next year. HMS Dauntless is currently being built in Glasgow and will be taking over as the city’s adopted ship from HMS Newcastle, which retired two years ago. HMS Newcastle, which was bui
The British container ship, Mariming Miral, ran aground in the eastern branch of the Suez Canal Saturday and stopped traffic along this part of the waterway, the official MENA news agency reported. The container ship, carrying 52,000 tons, ran aground owing to engine failure in the eastern branch of
A major study is to be carried out to explore future options for troubled Tyneside shipyard Swan Hunter. A working group set up to redevelop the site, on the north bank of the River Tyne, met for the first time on Thursday. North Tyneside Council and Newcastle City Council are working with site owne
Teekay Shipping Corp., an operator of crude oil tankers, on Friday said one of its subsidiaries bought a 40 percent stake in Norwegian oil services provider Petrojarl ASA. Financial terms were not disclosed. Under Norwegian law Bahamas-based Teekay must bid for the remainder of the company in the ne
BUNKER fuel continues to leak from two tanks of the sunken M/T Solar 1, but only in “very small” quantities, a Coast Guard official said. The leaks on the tanks, each with a capacity of 200,000 liters, were discovered by the remote-operated submersible from the Japanese salvage ship Shin Sei Maru, w
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The only official barrier to controversial plans to transfer oil between ships in the Forth has been removed, officials have confirmed. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency has approved Forth Ports’ contingency arrangements for dealing with spills during oil transfers. In July the MCA said it would ap
Global Ocean Sailing Ventures (GOSV) is now accepting entries for the inaugural 2007 Global Ocean Challenge. The Global Ocean Challenge is the first ever solo double global ocean race where singlehanded and double-handed teams will be competing on the same around-the-world racecourse aboard 40ft and
A state-of-the-art gunboat was handed over to the Russian Navy in St. Petersburg Friday. Built at St. Petersburg’s Almaz shipyard, the Astrakhan will be the first in the navy warship to have stealth capabilities and can be armed with various artillery systems previously used only on destroyers. Atte
Petro-Canada today announced the completion of planned dry dock work on the Terra Nova Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO). The vessel is currently moored at dockside in the Keppel Verolme (KV) shipyard in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, for completion of a maintenance turnaround. I
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has been awarded a $95.8 million contract for the detail design of the U.S. Navy’s 21st century DDG 1000 destroyer. The contract, to be performed by the company’s Ship Systems sector, includes the detail design and the procurement of any vendor-furnished infor
