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CBO: Better Planning Could Cut Down U.S. Navy's Drydock Delays

Published Dec 11, 2025 10:46 PM by The Maritime Executive

  The U.S. Navy surface fleet's maintenance-delay woes continue to worsen, according to a new review by the Congr...

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Tech Startup Wants to Reward Generational Transfer of Shipbuilding Skills

Published Dec 10, 2025 8:29 PM by The Maritime Executive

  A new startup supported by NOAA's tech accelerator program believes that it has a solution to the loss of older, mor...

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U.S. Navy Hires Palantir to Reorganize Shipbuilding Supply Chain With AI

Published Dec 10, 2025 7:20 PM by The Maritime Executive

  The U.S. Navy has awarded a contract worth nearly $450 million to the technology company Palantir to reorganize the subm...

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Svitzer to Build Next-Generation Electric Tugs in India

Published Dec 10, 2025 4:32 PM by The Maritime Executive

Svitzer confirmed that it has entered into a shipbuilding order with India’s Cochin Shipyard to build at least four next-g...

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British Shipbuilder Babcock to Make Assemblies for U.S. Navy Attack Subs

Published Dec 9, 2025 9:52 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Amidst reports of troubles and delays inside Britain's nuclear-submarine program, UK shipbuilder Babcock has announc...

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Eastern Shipbuilding Completes OSV-to-SOV Conversion for Hornbeck

Published Dec 9, 2025 5:10 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Eastern Shipbuilding Group has redelivered the HOS Rocinante, an offshore supply vessel that it rebuilt as a sophisticat...

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Saronic Secures $392M Unmanned-Vessel Contract From the U.S. Navy

Published Dec 8, 2025 10:08 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Autonomous vessel company Saronic has secured a U.S. Navy production contract worth $392 million for its Corsair unmanne...

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Austal USA Holds Keel-Laying for its First Offshore Patrol Cutter

Published Dec 8, 2025 6:09 PM by The Maritime Executive

  On Monday, Austal USA laid the keel for the future USCGC Pickering, the first vessel for the yard's Offshore Patrol...

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HD Hyundai Moves Forward with Plans to Establish an Indian Shipbuilder

Published Dec 8, 2025 1:38 PM by The Maritime Executive

  South Korea’s largest shipbuilding group, HD Hyundai, is continuing to take steps toward developing a large shipbu...

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At WorkBoat 2025, Cost Control Takes Center Stage

Published Dec 5, 2025 6:45 PM by The Maritime Executive

  American operators often get sticker shock when pricing out new vessel tonnage these days, and at WorkBoat 2025, ve...

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