Shipbuilding News
Wärtsilä Refits Classic Laker With Semi-Autonomous Navigation
American Steamship Company and Wärtsilä are breaking new ground with a hands-off, self-driving, self-docking navigation...
Read More >>Ship Repair: A Financial Balancing Act
Shipowners have limited options to access financing for ship repair, given the capital-intensive nature of vessel repairs also rep...
Read More >>VT Halter Prepares for Construction of Polar Security Cutter
VT Halter Marine has completed a major upgrade project to its launch way in preparation for building the first Polar Security Cutt...
Read More >>Japan Launches New Nihon Shipyard in JV Between JMU and Imabari
Nine months after announcing their intentions to form a new joint venture, two of Japan’s largest shipbuilders launched thei...
Read More >>China Shipbuilding Breaks Ground for new Shipbuilding Yard in Shanghai
China Shipbuilding Corporation broke ground on Monday for the construction of its newest shipyard which will be located on Changxi...
Read More >>South Korea Books First Large New Shipbuilding Order of 2021
The South Korean shipbuilding industry is off to a strong start in the first days of 2021 continuing the momentum for new orders d...
Read More >>Huntington Ingalls Buys Vessel Autonomy Division of SIS
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has acquired another vessel autonomy business with the purchase of the unmanned systems divisi...
Read More >>Ex-Chairman of Shipbuilder CSIC Expelled from Chinese Communist Party
The former chairman and party chief of the former China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) has been expelled from the Commun...
Read More >>Lifting Smarter
Recent years have seen new and exciting lifting technology come to the forefront with the completion of record-breaking and increa...
Read More >>Photos: Float Out of First U.S. Built Great Lakes Bulker Since 1983
The first U.S. flagged Great Lakes bulk carrier to be built on the Great Lakes in nearly four decades marked a key point in its co...
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