Tag: Shipbuilding
Shipbuilders Luerssen and Civmec commence fourth navy ship project
Luerssen Australia and Civmec are set to build its fourth Royal Australian Navy offshore patrol vessel (OVP) in an effort to support Australia's historic...
Austal to purchase additional land and facilities in Mobile
Austal has entered into a conditional agreement to purchase additional waterside land, buildings and dry dock in Mobile, Alabama. The news follows its announcement...
Industry and researchers invest $4M to develop world-leading shipbuilding manufacturing technologies
Australia’s Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (IMCRC), the University of South Australia (UniSA) and BAE Systems Australia’s subsidiary, ASC Shipbuilding, are investing more than $4million in...
BAE Systems Australia welcomes next generation of shipbuilders
BAE Systems Australia has welcomed the first shipbuilding apprentices to join the Hunter Class Frigate Program at the Osborne Naval Shipyard in South Australia.
Eighteen...
Launching Australia’s first digital shipbuilding class
Media Release
Australia is launching its first digital shipbuilding course to ensure the nation’s workforce is ready to tackle the $35 billion Hunter Class frigates...
Dassault Systèmes to build virtual shipyard in SA
French software company Dassault Systèmes has signed an agreement with South Australian engineering firm LogiCamms for the so-called virtual shipyard program.
Top representatives from the...
ASC workers take protected industrial action in Adelaide
Workers at Adelaide-based shipbuilder ASC have decided to take industrial action after the Federal Government-owned Corporation failed to negotiate a satisfactory enterprise agreement with...
Great news for Spain, bad for Australia – Navantia is the preferred tenderer for...
Spain’s Navantia has been selected as the preferred tenderer for the two replacement replenishment vessels for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
The replenishment ship programme...
ASC boosts performance on submarine maintenance after cutting 45 trade jobs from AWD
Last week, Australian shipbuilder ASC announced plans to cut 45 trade jobs from the Air Warfare Destroyer Project.
In a media release, the company said...
Austal awarded $53.5m US Navy contract
Shipbuilder Austal has been awarded a US$53.5 million contract to procure materials for a new vessel for the US Navy.
Under the terms of the...