Shipbuilding News
CBO: Better Planning Could Cut Down U.S. Navy's Drydock Delays
The U.S. Navy surface fleet's maintenance-delay woes continue to worsen, according to a new review by the Congr...
Read More >>Tech Startup Wants to Reward Generational Transfer of Shipbuilding Skills
A new startup supported by NOAA's tech accelerator program believes that it has a solution to the loss of older, mor...
Read More >>U.S. Navy Hires Palantir to Reorganize Shipbuilding Supply Chain With AI
The U.S. Navy has awarded a contract worth nearly $450 million to the technology company Palantir to reorganize the subm...
Read More >>Svitzer to Build Next-Generation Electric Tugs in India
Svitzer confirmed that it has entered into a shipbuilding order with India’s Cochin Shipyard to build at least four next-g...
Read More >>British Shipbuilder Babcock to Make Assemblies for U.S. Navy Attack Subs
Amidst reports of troubles and delays inside Britain's nuclear-submarine program, UK shipbuilder Babcock has announc...
Read More >>Eastern Shipbuilding Completes OSV-to-SOV Conversion for Hornbeck
Eastern Shipbuilding Group has redelivered the HOS Rocinante, an offshore supply vessel that it rebuilt as a sophisticat...
Read More >>Saronic Secures $392M Unmanned-Vessel Contract From the U.S. Navy
Autonomous vessel company Saronic has secured a U.S. Navy production contract worth $392 million for its Corsair unmanne...
Read More >>Austal USA Holds Keel-Laying for its First Offshore Patrol Cutter
On Monday, Austal USA laid the keel for the future USCGC Pickering, the first vessel for the yard's Offshore Patrol...
Read More >>HD Hyundai Moves Forward with Plans to Establish an Indian Shipbuilder
South Korea’s largest shipbuilding group, HD Hyundai, is continuing to take steps toward developing a large shipbu...
Read More >>At WorkBoat 2025, Cost Control Takes Center Stage
American operators often get sticker shock when pricing out new vessel tonnage these days, and at WorkBoat 2025, ve...
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