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Gibraltar squadron to receive two cutting-edge Fast Patrol Craft

Maritime July 30, 2020

A £9.9 million contract has been signed with Merseyside-based Marine Specialised Technology (MST) for two new boats to replace the Gibraltar Squadron Fast Patrol Craft. The six-year contract, which will support 30 jobs and create a further 25, will see construction of the two boats beginning in July 2020 and will ...

DPRTE news: Supply chain contracts support £1bn on Type 26 programme

Maritime July 29, 2020

DPRTE Engage Online partner, BAE Systems, has awarded a further five contracts to suppliers worth more than £100 million, as progress on the Type 26 frigate programme continues apace at the company’s shipyards in Glasgow. The new contracts will support 250 jobs, with the Type 26 programme sustaining more than 4,000 ...

DPRTE Engage partner DIO redeveloping Northern Ammunition Jetty in Glen Mallan

Maritime July 27, 2020

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) is investing £64-million in a redevelopment of the Northern Ammunition Jetty in Glen Mallan to support the Royal Navy’s surface fleet. The jetty is used to load and unload ammunition. The original jetty was last upgraded in 1970 and had reached the end of its natural ...

Construction begins on US Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship, the future USS Beloit

Maritime July 24, 2020

Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri Marinette Marine marked the beginning of construction on Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 29, the future USS Beloit, with a ceremony in Marinette. As part of a ship-building tradition dating back centuries, a shipyard worker welded into the ship’s keel plate the initials of Major General Marcia M. ...