Tag: Austal USA
Year in Review: Business Dominated By Everything But Business
2020 wasn’t all about COVID-19, though you (and your psyche) might think otherwise. Yes, the pandemic dominated the business landscape, with unemployment burgeoning, employers doing...
Austal USA Buying More Mobile Waterfront
Austal USA announced today that it has inked an agreement to acquire 15 acres of waterfront in downtown Mobile from Modern American Recycling and...
Austal‘s EPF 12 Completes Sea Trials
The Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) 12, soon to be the USNS Newport, completed sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico and is ready for...
Manufacturers Step Up to Meet Health Care Needs
In a program coordinated by the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce, with technical input from the University of South Alabama, several of south Alabama’s...
Good Week for Warship Builders on Trump Calendar
President Donald Trump is scheduled to make a speech Thursday in Marinette, Wisconsin, at Fincantieri Marinette Marine, the shipyard that recently beat Mobile-based Austal...
Austal’s USS Oakland Completes Acceptance Trials
The future USS Oakland, the 12th Independence variant littoral combat ship built by Austal USA, has successfully completed acceptance trials in the Gulf of...
Navy’s $5.5 Billion for 10 Frigates 56% Under Mark?
April 30 brought bitterly disappointing news to shipbuilder Austal USA, with the Navy's announcement that a competing shipyard in Wisconsin won the bid to...
Keel for Future USS Canberra Laid
Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne was in Mobile Tuesday to take part in the keel laying ceremony of the future USS Canberra...
Politics, Shipbuilding and $9 Billion Plus
2020 is a big election year in the U.S. and for Mobile-based Austal USA, which hopes to win a $9 billion-plus contract to build...
Austal Ship Completes Sea Trials
Austal USA’s eleventh littoral combat ship, LCS 22, destined to become the USS Kansas City, completed acceptance trials in the Gulf of Mexico recently...