
UK shipbuilder Babcock has revealed that the Royal Navy’s first Type 31 frigate HMS Venturer will be floated off in the first half of 2024.

South Korean shipbuilder HJ Shipbuilding & Construction (HJSC) has signed a contract to build four special-purpose naval patrol killers with the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA).

The Indian Navy commissioned its latest stealth guided missile destroyer Imphal at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai on December 26.

The Indian Ministry of Defence has signed a contract with Mazagon Dockyard Shipbuilders (MDL) for the construction of six next-generation offshore patrol vessels (OPVs).

Shipbuilder Navantia has started the construction process of the second frigate of the F-110 class for the Spanish Navy.

Defence company Babcock has been awarded a three-year contract to support and maintain two mine countermeasures vessels Cherkasy and Chernihiv for the Navy of Ukraine following their transfer from the Royal Navy.

Austal USA has received a US$867.6 million (A$1.28 billion) definitized contract award (UCA) for the final design and construction of three Expeditionary Medical Ships (EMS) from the US Navy.

The Spanish Ministry of Defence (MoD) has ordered 16 Airbus C295 aircraft in maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) configuration and maritime surveillance aircraft (MSA) configuration.

German shipbuilding company thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) has handed over the third MEKO A-200 EN frigate to the Navy of the Arab Republic of Egypt. As informed, the frigate Al-Qadeer was delivered on December 16. The vessel is the third out of four new MEKO frigates TKMS is constructing for th

The steel-cutting ceremony of the new hydro-oceanographic ship (N.I.O.M.) of the Italian Navy took place at Fincantieri’s Riva Trigoso shipyard on December 19.

HII’ Ingalls Shipbuilding has held a keel-laying ceremony for US Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) guided missile destroyer George M. Neal (DDG 131).

Austal Ships and Birdon have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop defence shipbuilding capability in Western Australia to deliver the Australian Department of Defence Landing Craft-Medium (LC-M) project.

ST Engineering’s subsidiary ST Engineering Marine has secured a contract with the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) for the mid-life upgrade of its Formidable-class frigates for the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN).

Shipbuilder Meyer Turku has held a steel-cutting ceremony for first Turva-class patrol ship to be builf for Finnish Border Guard.