Logistics, Distribution & Maritime

Navy Exercises Option With Austal For LCS

MOBILE, Ala. — Mobile-based Austal USA has been awarded an $11,424,232 cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-only modification to exercise an option for littoral combat ship (LCS) industrial...

Austal To Build Aluminum Drone Vessel

MOBILE, Ala. — Mobile-based Austal USA has announced a partnership with Alameda, California-based Saildrone Inc., under which the shipyard will start building autonomous sail-powered survey...

Port Sees Record Growth

MOBILE, Ala. — The Port of Mobile had its busiest month ever for containerized cargo in July, breaking 50,000 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) for the...

Navy Orders Two More Ships From Austal

MOBILE, Ala. — Austal USA recently received a $156-million contract option to build two more Navajo-class towing, salvage and rescue ships for the U.S. Navy,...

Blakeley Boatworks Receives Grant

MOBILE, Ala. — Mobile shipyard Blakeley BoatWorks is among 24 small shipyards in 19 states to receive $19.6 million disbursed to small shipyards by the...

Austal Begins Work On Steel Ship

MOBILE, Ala. — A ceremony for the first cut of Mobile-based Austal USA’s first steel ship, a Navajo-class towing, salvage and rescue ship being built...

Austal Wins USCG Deal Worth Up To $3.3 Billion

MOBILE, Ala. — The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has awarded Mobile-based Austal USA a contract worth a potential $3.3 billion for the design and construction...

TQL Expands In Spanish Fort

SPANISH FORT, Ala. — Union Township, Ohio-based Total Quality Logistics (TQL) has expanded its Spanish Fort office at Spanish Fort Town Center. TQL’s office footprint...

Austal Wins $128-Million Contract

MOBILE, Ala. — Austal USA of Mobile has been awarded a $128-million contract to design and build an auxiliary dry dock for the U.S. Navy,...

Master Boat Builders Announces Contract

MOBILE, Ala. — Master Boat Builders of Coden has been awarded a contract for a 4,000-ton tugboat for PNE Marine Holdings Inc., Business Alabama reports....

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