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SHIPPING NEWS: Shipyard in battle for repair business

This wasn't always the case, until 2012 the shipyard had two floating dry-docks ... The Davie Shipbuilding yard in Lévis, Que. is cited as Halifax Shipyards’ competition for the frigate repair work. D... read more

Russian Black Sea Fleet’s latest frigate Admiral Makarov to be based in Sevastopol

The Russian Navy’s flag was raised aboard the frigate on Wednesday, TASS reports from the scene. The flag-hoisting ceremony aboard the frigate was attended by Russian Navy Shipbuilding ... 2012 and fl... read more

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

The Navy's Rationale For Not Reactivating Perry Class Frigates Doesn't Float

The move to return the Perry class frigates ... In the end shipbuilding and all its politics and special interest influences that go along with, as well as the Pentagon leadership's obsession with new ... 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

The Navy Needs To Stop Buying Big Ships To Do All Its Small Jobs

There is one possible solution: Steal a page from the Russian navy’s shipbuilding ... be swapped out as planned. Such is the risk with developing new technologies. So I was excited to hear the Navy re... 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

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

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

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

An 18th century frigate does battle... in orbit around Mercury!

Much closer, however, he picked out a merchantman, her planesails unfurled at either side, her ruddersail suspended a full eighty feet below her keel. Along her larboard side, puffs of smoke erupted f... 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