Each year, as we prepare for the largest U.S. based maritime industry conference in New Orleans, we tend to look back on the state of the industry and initiatives that were announced from the ...

The Defense Logistics Agency awarded a $5 billion contract to six businesses to help quicken ship manufacturing. Here, a welder with Newport News Shipbuilding works on a steel panel. (Ashley Cowan/HII ...

Pickering is one of two Coast Guard OPCs, and one of ten total surface vessels, under construction at Austal USA’s Mobile, ...

The US Navy installed a 3D printer on the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan in November 2022. (US Navy) The US Navy (USN) is striving to bolster the use of additive manufacturing (AM) in shipbuilding ...

The USS Gabrielle Giffords, an Independence-class littoral combat class warship, left Mobile, Alabama, from Austal's ship manufacturing facility Monday. Named for Tucson's Giffords, the ship will be ...

Port Manatee recently received its first shipment for its newest terminal operator, Carver Maritime Manatee LLC, when a ship delivered nearly 48,000 metric tons of raw material for cement ...

Here is a portion of the release. Mobile, Ala. – Austal USA started construction on its second Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC), Icarus (WMSM 920). Like Pickering (WMSM 919), Icarus is ...

Austal USA won a construction contract by the U.S. Navy Friday to build an additional Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship, its fifteenth ship in the class. The award of LCS 30 is a clear sign of ...