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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Defense Logistics Agency awarded a $5 billion contract to six businesses to help quicken ship manufacturing. Here, a welder ...

MOBILE, Ala. -- Austal Ship Manufacturing in Mobile christened its first steel ship on Saturday. The USNS Billy Frank Jr. will be the Navy's sixth generation towing, salvage and rescue ship.

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 ...

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 ...