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The yard was started as a cooperation between Kværner and the City of Philadelphia, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Government of the United States.Rebuilt and opened in 2000, the yard delivered its first ship in 2003: MV Manukai, a container cargo ship for Matson Line and the first of three, CV 2600 class sister vessels built for Matson through 2006.
In April 2020, TOTE Services signed a contract with Philly Shipyard (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) for the construction of the first two vessels to be delivered in the Spring and Winter 2023 for a cost of US$630M. TOTE Services is working with its design partners – Glosten, Inc., Philly Shipyard, and Philly Shipyard’s subcontractors ...
From 1987 to 1991 Kitty Hawk was overhauled for $785 million under the Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. [6] From 1990 to 1992, Constellation received her $800 million service life extension also in Philadelphia. [7] The program was intended to add 15 years to the life of the ships.
The request for information is related to the Navy's Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program (SIOP), a once-in-a-century plan to upgrade its four aging public shipyards in Puget Sound ...
The Naval Sea Systems Command's Inactive Ships Management Office (INACTSHIPOFF) is based in Portsmouth, Virginia. [2] There are three NISMFs: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard – Bremerton, Washington; Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam – Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Philadelphia Naval Shipyard – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, originally Kværner Philadelphia Shipyard, [6] began as a product of a partnership of public and private investments used to rebuild and convert 110 acres (0.45 km 2) of the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, which was closed in 1995. After the acquisition of Kværner, Aker took ownership of the yard.
It was the first time Wyand, a Navy veteran who lived and worked at the shipyard in the late 1980s, learned he may have been exposed to radium-226 and strontium-90 — radionuclides that build up ...
In 2000, the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, acquired it and began to redevelop the land. First called Philadelphia Naval Business Center, it is now known as The Navy Yard. It is a large mixed-use campus where nearly 15,000 people are employed by more than 120 companies representing a mix ...