AL-ARISH, Egypt, Jan 21 (Reuters) – About 1,000 people from Gaza have been treated in a French field hospital aboard a ship off the coast of Egypt, its captain said, providing care for some…
https://gcaptain.com/french-warship-treats-injured-gazans-off-egyptian-shore/
Australian-based Austal Limited (ASX: ASB) has announced that its U.S. shipyard, Austal USA, has received a $867.6 million undefinitised contract award (UCA) for the final design and construction of three…
https://gcaptain.com/austal-usa-awarded-contract-for-us-navys-next-generation-hospital-ships/
By James Stavridis (Bloomberg) In my military career, I was frequently deployed on the US Navy’s massive nuclear-powered aircraft carriers into combat and on more routine peacetime missions. I embarked in the USS…
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BEIJING, July 16 (Reuters) – A Chinese military-run hospital ship has arrived in Kiribati for the first time, as China vies with the United States for influence in the Pacific region. The…
https://gcaptain.com/chinese-military-run-hospital-ship-arrives-in-kiribati/
In a video released for Mental Health Awareness Month, Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Carlos Del Toro announced the new name for the Navy’s next-generation hospital ships, known as the…
https://gcaptain.com/u-s-navy-names-next-generation-hospital-ship/
by John Konrad (gCaptain)n At the Port of Los Angeles, the locomotive engineer who purposefully ran his train off the tracks at full-speed in an apparent to sink the US…
https://gcaptain.com/train-kamakaze-us-navy-hospital-ship-prison/
The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command has awarded Alabama Shipyard, Mobile, Ala., a $25,964,083 firm-fixed-price contract (N3220522C4031) for a 150-calendar day shipyard availability for the regular overhaul and drydocking of the Military Sealift Command’s hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20).
The contract includes a base period and 11 options that if exercised, would bring its cumulative value of this contract to $28,535,957.
Work will be performed in Mobile beginning March 1, 2022, and is...
The Global Mercy, the new-built ship of Mercy Ships, completes its journey and will be outfitted & finished in the port of Antwerp. The largest private hospital ship in the world left the shipyard in China at the end of July, after successfully carrying out mandatory sea trials.
The Global Mercy completed its journey through the Suez Canal and will be further outfitted and finished in Antwerp from September 2021 to February 2022.
Unique international and national cooperation
Port of Antwerp made...
https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/watch-worlds-largest-civilian-hospital-ship-in-antwerp/
The Suez Canal has donated free passage to the world’s newest hospital ship Mercy Ships’ newbuild Global Mercy. The ship is currently on her last leg of the journey to the…
Mercy Ships has taken delivery of the world’s largest civilian hospital ship, Global Mercy. The ship was delivered to the international charity at the Tianjin Xingang shipyard in northern China,…