The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) announced that the nation’s shipyards support $36 billion in gross domestic product, as part of a report on the U.S. shipbuilding and repair industry issued yesterday. Acting Maritime Administrator Paul “Chip” Jaenichen shared the findings of the report, The Economic Importance of the U.S. Shipbuilding and Repairing [...]
Twenty-eight apprentices from Newport News Shipbuilding’s Apprentice School were among the 418,500 Americans who gave their lives to protect America’s freedom during World War II. To honor these fallen heroes, maritime artist Thomas C. Skinner painted the “Memorial Mural” in 1947. Now, more than 70 years later, the mural will get a restorative facelift. The [...]
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Newport News Shipbuilding’s (NNS) Career Pathways program received two awards from the Virginia Department of Education for its partnership with Newport News City Public Schools’ Heritage High School. NNS, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), has been supporting the high school’s STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) initiatives for students. Because of its commitment [...]
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Wartsila, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has been awarded the contract by Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc., of Panama City, Florida to supply an integrated solution for a new multipurpose support vessel (MPSV) for Harvey Gulf International Marine, LLC (HGIM) of New Orleans. This offshore vessel is the first in a series of [...]
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Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (IMF) sought shipyard volunteers to help overcome a staffing shortage of more than 600 mechanics, a result of the Navy-mandated hiring freeze. Despite being exempt from Defense Department-wide employee furloughs, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and IMF is struggling to minimize the hiring shortfall on planned availabilities for [...]
Unison has received an order from Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), the supplier of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and one of two shipbuilders of nuclear-powered submarines for the US Navy, for an all-electric CNC machine capable of bending large-bore tubing and piping up to eight inches in diameter (219mm OD). The machine will be the first of [...]
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wilmington District officially commissioned its newest shallow-draft dredge vessel – MURDEN – in a ceremony May 29 at the Engineer Repair Yard in Wilmington. The Murden is 156 feet long with a 35-foot beam and 11-foot depth, and can conduct dredging operations in waters as shallow as 5 feet. [...]
Senior officials of the Brazilian company Bravante recently paid a visit to Panama City to inspect their ships now under construction at Eastern Shipbuilding. Bravante’s contract with Eastern for five platform supply vessels is worth $241 million and translates into 300 shipyard jobs for three years here in Panama City. Brazil’s growing economy is an [...]
Harvey Gulf International Marine CEO, Shane Guidry, announced today that Harvey Gulf has secured plans to construct and operate the first LNG marine fueling facility in the United States, to be located at its vessel facility in Port Fourchon, Louisiana. The fueling facility will be a vital addition to the growing national LNG supply infrastructure, [...]
The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of the second Joint High Speed Vessel, USNS Choctaw County (JHSV 2), from Austal USA, June 6 in Mobile, Ala. JHSV 2 successfully completed acceptance trials in May, when the Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey evaluated performance of the ship’s major systems and equipment. Delivery represents the official transfer [...]
