Spanish shipbuilder Navantia has held a launching ceremony for the second of five corvettes being built for the Saudi Arabian Navy. The Avante 2200-class corvette, named Al-Diriyah, was launched on November 14, with the ceremony being live-streamed from the shipyard to Riyadh to comply with the COVI
BAE Systems has received a $197.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to drydock and perform maintenance and modernization work aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1). This is the second time in four years that the company has performed significant work onboard the Wasp to sustain its w
Shipbuilder Austal Australia has ‘cut metal’ on the third of six new Cape-class patrol boats to be constructed for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Croatian shipbuilder Brodosplit has laid the keel for the final two inshore patrol vessels being built for the country’s defense ministry.
Huntington Ingalls Industries’s (HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division has been awarded a contract modification from General Dynamics Electric Boat in support of construction on the first two Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines, Columbia (SSBN 826).
The Canadian Coast Guard has taken the delivery of the CCGS Jean Goodwill, the second of three medium interim icebreakers to join the fleet after completing refit and conversion work at Davie Shipbuilding in Lévis, Quebec.
Kership, a subsidiary of the shipyards Naval Group and Piriou, has selected ENGIE Solutions to carry out the studies and installation of all the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems and cold rooms on six minesweepers for the Royal Belgian Navy and six units for the Dutch Navy.
The US Navy’s two future Virginia-class attack submarines will be named USS Tang and USS Wahoo, Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy said.
The US Navy has awarded General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, part of General Dynamics, a $146 million option to continue to manage ongoing post-delivery modernization activities for Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) destroyers.
Norwegian technology company Kongsberg Maritime has secured a contract worth NOK 200 million ($22 million) with Spanish shipbuilder Navantia to supply propeller systems for five F-110 frigates currently under construction for the Spanish Navy.
Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding and Thales have signed a €1.5 billion ($1.78 billion) contract for the delivery and full integration of Thales’ mission and combat system for the four MKS 180 class frigates contracted by the German Navy.
The Royal Navy recently seized cocaine worth more than £120m in the Caribbean.
South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has launched the Republic of Korea Navy’s second 3000-ton KSS-III submarine.
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