NNS Wins Navy Deal
Northrop Grumman Newport News, Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $190,704,758 cost-plus-fixed-fee (with performance incentives) option to previously awarded…
Tanzania Offers Six Oil Blocks for Exploration
Tanzania has invited energy explorers to bid for six blocks in the east African nation that is fast becoming a new frontier in the hunt for oil and gas. According…
OSHA, National Shipbuilding Research Program Renew Alliance
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP) have renewed their Alliance…
Strike Halts Steelmaking and Shipbuilding in Finland
Companies affected by the strike launched by about 3,000 members of the Finnish Union of Salaried Employees (TU) told the Finnish News Agency (STT) that the industrial…
Daewoo Shipbuilding Wins Freighter Order, Close to Topping $17B Target
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering said that its Romanian joint venture Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries Shipyard won an order for nine 5,550 TEU freighters (capable of carrying 5…
Oil Worker’s Children Abducted in Nigeria
Two children, Fransisca Ehileme, age six, and her five-year-old brother, Francis, both children of an oil worker, were abducted by gunmen on their way to school…
Too Few Ships Drives Bid Prices for Cargo
The world's fleets of cargo ships are aging, and demand for commodities is surging. That means the cost of shipping will go up, pushing up prices and crimping supply.
Danaos Orders Five Containerships
Danaos Corporation (NYSE: DAC) announced that it has ordered five 12,600 TEU containerships. All five Post Panamax containerships will be built by Hyundai Samho…
General Dynamics Awarded $10M Navy Order
General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been awarded a task order to modernize the telephone switch systems for Naval Air Station Jacksonville…
Bluewater International Ferry Shutdown Possible
Southern St. Clair County residents and tourists traveling to Canada may have to go the long way around - through Port Huron and over the Blue Water Bridge - to get to Ontario and back.
Shell-ExxonMobil JV To Divest Oil and Gas Fields
The Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij joint venture between Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA) and Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) intends to divest oil and gas fields in the Dutch part of the North Sea…
Northrop Grumman Promotes Student Learning
Northrop Grumman Corp. may be better known for its defense and shipbuilding skills, but the Los Angeles company is working with Deer Valley Unified School District…
BAE-VT Shipbuilding JV Approved
Britain's BAE Systems (BAES.L) and VT Group (VTG.L) won permission from the European Commission on Wednesday to merge their shipbuilding operations, according to a Reuters report.
Yarov Nominated for Head of United Shipbuilding Corp.
Yury Yarov, director of the Severnoye ship design bureau, has been nominated for president of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), the Industry and Energy Ministry said recently.
This Day in Navy History
October 24, 1944 - In air-sea battle in the Sibuyan Sea, carrier aircraft attack Japanese Center Force. 1958 - USS Kleinsmith (APD-134) evacuates U.S. nationals from Nicaro, Cuba.
