Jul. 16—A well-traveled floating dry dock built in the 1940s to service Navy vessels and relocated to the Port of Brownsville in the 1990s has been retired. The advanced base sectional dock (ABSD-7) — ...

Born in 1998 and celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2023, Heger Dry Dock holds a unique position as one of the few engineering firms in the world dedicated to the design and lifecycle engineering of ...

VT Halter Marine Inc, a subsidiary of VT Systems Inc., announced the arrival of a 12,000 MT Floating Dry Dock transported by a heavy lift vessel from the Philippines. The dock dimensions are LOA- 546 ...

Britain’s Ministry of Defence says design work is already underway on new floating dry docks for the Royal Navy, a project intended to ease mounting pressure on submarine maintenance as the country ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BAE Systems today received a new 950-foot-long, 55,000-lifting-ton floating dry dock at its San Diego shipyard. The dry dock is part of the company’s $100 million ...

Not so long ago, San Francisco's waterfront was lined with heavy industry: shipyards, floating dry docks to keep ships seaworthy, machine shops and jobs for thousands of blue-collar workers. They ...

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Iraq’s Ministry of Transport has announced a new project to build the country's largest floating dock in partnership with ...

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Jul. 16—The Navy floating dry dock USS Los Alamos is shown in Scotland in the 1980s. (Courtesy: U.S. Navy) A well-traveled floating dry dock built in the 1940s to service Navy vessels and relocated to ...