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Wired
March 2004
Christopher S. Stewart |
Ripping Steel 88 decrepit mega-military vessels floats sadly in various stages of ruin moored along the James River. Removal of the ships used to be done by towing them to Bangladesh or India for disposal, allowing them to leak toxins into the environment. Disposing of them here would be better for the environment and for the perception of the US by other countries.   |
National Defense
June 2004
Sandra I. Erwin |
Shipbuilders Should Worry About Second-Hand Ship Supply, Study Says As more nations continue to downsize their navies, experts predict that surplus ships will inundate the world market, likely at the expense of new ship construction. |
BusinessWeek
October 13, 2003
Moon Ihlwan |
Monsters on the High Seas As China's exports swell, Korea and Japan are launching gargantuan container ships. |
National Defense
March 2008
Alan L. Gropman |
Government Action Needed to Fix Troubled Shipbuilding Sector The limited commercial market, combined with a decline in Navy orders, has resulted in excess production capacity, underused larger shipyards and high vessel costs. |
BusinessWeek
December 9, 2010
Kyunghee Park |
A Trade Rebound Launches Bigger Boats As Asian trade swells, demand for large container ships booms. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2008
Jeff Wise |
Building the World's Biggest Ship: Behind-the-Scenes First Look How do you construct the most massive boat ever? One piece at a time. Read about the world's next generation of mega cruise liners taking shape in a Finnish shipyard. |
National Defense
May 2009
Jean & Erwin |
Navy Shifts Shipbuilding Dollars to Mid-Tier Yards Most of the Navy's large warships are built at the nation's "big four" yards in Avondale, La.; Pascagoula, Miss.; Bath Iron Works, Maine; and NASSCO, Calif. |
National Defense
February 2009
Grace V. Jean |
Navy's Shipbuilding Strategy Remains Under Fire A fleet of 278 ships today -- less than half of what it was two decades ago -- is likely to continue to shrink unless the Navy can contain the soaring costs of building new ships. |
National Defense
August 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
Inefficient Shipbuilding Jeopardizes Navy's Expansion Goals The Navy owns 277 ships, but somehow manages to keep 551 different engines in its inventory. Such inefficients partly explain why the cost of buying and maintaining ships has spiraled out of control. |
National Defense
April 2005
Harold Kennedy |
Navy Seeks to Simplify Ship Maintenance To keep ships ready to deploy, the U.S. Navy is working to reduce the time that its ships spend in maintenance. |
National Defense
January 2005
Roxana Tiron |
Ships' Cost Could Sink Plans For Floating Military Bases The success of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps forward-looking concept of deploying bases at sea relies heavily on the development of a new class of cargo ships. |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2011
Shubh Datta |
Another Shipper Declines on Lower Rates Ship Finance's profits sink 21% on account of lower spot rates. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2008
Dan Koeppel |
World's Fastest Superliner Awaits Rebirth--or the Scrap Yard Although she has not sailed under her own power for nearly four decades, the SS United States has survived. Will the ship be restored, or scrapped? |
National Defense
March 2009
Grace V. Jean |
Greater Demand for 'Soft Power' Reveals Shortfalls in The Navy They seek naval expertise in nontraditional missions such as training foreign navies to protect their coastlines. |
National Defense
August 2014
Valerie Insinna |
Low Inventory, Low Readiness Plague Amphibious Ship Fleet Amphibious ships are among the most highly demanded vessels in the Navy's fleet, according to Expeditionary Force 21, the Marine Corps plan for its future force. |
National Defense
January 2004
Sandra I. Erwin |
Military Bases at Sea: No Longer Unthinkable Staging a military campaign the size of Operation Iraqi Freedom entirely from ships at sea---with no access to land bases---would seem inconceivable to most defense planners. Nonetheless, the notion is gaining momentum at the Pentagon. |
BusinessWeek
June 10, 2010
Bhatia & Nightingale |
Why the Rising Cost of Shipping Matters The price charged by owners of container ships are up about 75 percent since December, a sign that global demand is climbing, but they're still a long way from their peak. |
National Defense
February 2008
Grace V. Jean |
Marine Corps Makes Strong Pitch for `Sea Bases' Senior Marine Corps officials are asking Navy leaders to commit to a plan to deploy floating military bases within the next decade. |
National Defense
February 2008
Grace V. Jean |
More Amphibious Ships Are Needed, Marines Contend Marine Corps leaders have stepped up pressure on the Navy to increase the size of the amphibious vessel fleet. |
National Defense
May 2008
Grace Jean |
New Ships are Breaking The Bank So the Navy is Fixing its Old Ones The ballooning costs of new ships are forcing the Navy to extend the service life of dozens of surface combatants that typically would have been decommissioned. |
National Defense
October 2015
Ray Mabus |
The Real Numbers Behind Today's Fleet What should Americans conclude when they hear conflicting claims about the U.S. Navy being too large or shrinking too much? |
The Motley Fool
February 8, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Royal Caribbean Thinks Big Here's proof that today's activity-packed cruise ships keep getting bigger -- and so does their potential to command a heftier chunk of the travel-market dollar. Investors, take note. |
