Bollinger Shipyards has completed the successful delivery to the U.S. Navy of the first three mine countermeasures unmanned surface vehicles (MCM USVs). These vessels are the Navy’s first program of record, non-prototype, autonomous surface ships — a historic milestone in the transition to autonomous maritime operations.
“Bollinger is proud to deliver the first three full-rate production MCM USVs to the U.S. Navy,” said Bollinger Shipyards president and CEO Ben Bordelon. “This milestone...
Canada’s Seaspan Shipyards in North Vancouver, B.C., yesterday cut steel on the new heavy polar icebreaker it is building for the Canadian Coast Guard, marking the start of construction on one of the most advanced conventional polar icebreakers ever to be built.
Measuring 158 meters long and 28 meters wide, Seaspan’s polar icebreaker will be incredibly complex, designed to operate self-sufficiently in the high-Arctic year-round.
It will play a critical role in enabling the Canadian Coast Guard to...
Bollinger Shipyards recently hosted a 9/11 steel transfer ceremony at its Lockport facility that saw the shipyard received two pieces of steel from the debris of the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The steel will be incorporated into two U.S. Coast Guard Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutters bearing the names of 9/11 Heroes Vincent Danz, a Coast Guard reservist and New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer, and Jeffrey Palazzo, a Coast Guard reservist and New York...
Morgan City, La.-headquartered shipbuilder Conrad Industries, Inc. (OTC Pink: CNRD) has reported 2024 results that included net income of $11.2 million and income per diluted share of $2.24 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2024 compared to net loss of $27.0 million and loss per diluted share of $5.39 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2023. Conrad’s backlog as of December 31, 2024 was $293.8 million, compared to $253.8 million at December 31, 2023, and $244.1 million at December...
BAE Systems recently recognized last year’s top suppliers to its U.S. maritime business during a Partner2Win supplier symposium in Jacksonville, Fla, at which the company recognized 87 suppliers that supported maintenance, modernization, and refit projects aboard U.S. Navy ships and commercial vessels.
BAE Systems’ Partner2Win program is a collaborative partnership between the company’s three shipyards in Jacksonville, Norfolk, Va, and San Diego, Calif., and a vast network of naval and...
HII’s (NYSE: HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division in Pascagoula, Miss.., has successfully launched future USS Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129), the third Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to be built at the shipyard.
DDG 129 is named for former U.S. Sen. Jeremiah Denton Jr., a Vietnam War veteran who was awarded the Navy Cross for his heroism as a prisoner of war. Following his Navy career, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, representing his home state of Alabama, in 1980.,
Shipbuilders transferred...
Marking a major milestone in the Coast Guard’s heavy polar icebreaker program, Bollinger Shipyards has been awarded a $951.6 million contract modification that advances the Polar Security Cutter program to the detail design and construction phase.
“Securing this contract modification has truly been a herculean effort and underscores the incredible trust the U.S. Government has placed in Bollinger to build and deliver the first heavy polar icebreaker in half a century,” said Ben Bordelon,...
Conrad Shipyard LLC, Morgan City, La., has been awarded a $28,285,715 firm fixed-price modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-22-C-2253) for detail design and construction of one additional Yard Repair, Berthing, and Messing (YRBM) craft.
The contract action includes options that, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $59,856,020.
Work will be performed in Amelia, Louisiana, and is expected to be completed by March 2027. Fiscal 2024 shipbuilding and...
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TOTE Services LLC an affiliate of the TOTE Group, and Hanwha Philly Shipyard Inc. last week marked a major shipbuilding milestone with a keel laying ceremony for the fifth and final vessel in the National Security Multi-Mission Vessel (NSMV) program.
Commissioned by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD), the NSMV program is designed to provide world-class training for America’s future mariners while also supporting humanitarian assistance and disaster relief...
Fincantieri Marine Group’s Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM) has named Jan Allman CEO. She succeeds current CEO Mark Vandroff, who is returning to Fincantieri Marine Group in a new role as its senior vice president of government relations in Washington D.C.
Allman, who was CEO of Marinette Marine for seven years (2014-2021), has served as the VP and general manager of Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding since April 2023, and prior to thar served as FMG’s senior vice president for public affairs and...