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2,500 shipbuilding jobs 'safe' for Adelaide as Prime Minister announces local Navy frigate and corvette ship build

The Government has also put local control of the Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) project out ... "The frigates are coming as a first prize," Mr Abbott said. It's a terrific announcement for Adelaide, up t... read more

Spain looks for piece of shipbuilding pie

Navantia, the fifth-biggest shipbuilder in the world, brought a Spanish navy frigate to Halifax Monday in a bid ... A part of J.D. Irving, Irving Shipbuilding operates primarily out of the Halifax shi... read more

China launches second Algerian corvette

The Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding company has launched the second of three ... The launching of the corvettes follows the undocking and floating out of the first Meko A200 from a dockyard in Kiel, Germ... read more

If India is to rule the waves, defence ministry must change its ways

A fortnight ago, Kathupalli delivered to the navy a Rs 4.68 billion floating dry dock ... submarine project before he retired and now oversees L&T's shipbuilding business, points out that both vessels ... read more

Full steam ahead for Nassco shipyard in San Diego

Nearby, the keel has been laid on a new Navy project called the Mobile Landing Platform, which can act as a wharf at sea or a floating dry ... to repair the Navy frigates Vandegrift and Curts, shipyar... read more

Shipbuilding industry awaits announcement on Future Frigates as Tony Abbott, Cabinet visit Adelaide

An announcement to build the frigates would come after months of intense debate about defence shipbuilding ... AWD project out to tender after being unimpressed with cost blowouts and the length of ti... read more

The way we do military procurement continues to baffle the world

The National Shipbuilding ... in the NSPS program: a floating gas can that’s nowhere near as complicated as the big prize in this scramble, the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) intended to replace the ... read more

Explainer: Concern over Clyde shipyard jobs

There has also been speculation that work on the new vessels could be carried out over a longer timeframe - meaning ... And there was also a plan floated to build a "frigate factory", with £200m of in... read more

The New York Times

fear she’d break out and shell Washington and New York City. Regardless of the outcome, the fight set off an ironclad fever on both sides. The secretary of the Confederate Navy, Stephen Mallory, saw t... read more

Moroccan Navy receives FREMM frigate

Five FREMM frigates are currently under construction at the DCNS shipyard in Lorient. Normandie began her sea trials in October 2013 and is scheduled for delivery to the French Navy later this year wh... read more

Navy review of foreign ship designs gives builders the jitters

The proposal was floated because the navy ... There’s been a steady erosion of the country’s shipbuilding capacity for nearly 20 years. The last major warship construction project, the navy’s patrol f... read more