The venerable dredge McFarland’s days indeed are numbered now that the Philadelphia Engineer District has awarded Panama City, Fla.-based Eastern Shipbuilding Group a firm-fixed-price contract “for the design-build of a… Read More
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Eastern Shipbuilding Group conducted sea trials March 30 for the forthcoming Weeks Marine dredge R.B. Weeks. The new dredge is a sister vessel to the dredge Magdalen, which Eastern delivered… Read More
Following the retirement of company founder Brian D’Isernia, Eastern Shipbuilding Group has named his son, Joey, as CEO and board chairman. The elder D’Isernia had served in that role for… Read More
Representatives from Eastern Shipbuilding Group and Cranford, N.J.-based Weeks Marine Inc. gathered at Eastern’s Allanton Shipyard, near Panama City, Fla., June 17 for the launch of the trailing suction hopper… Read More
A sister ship to Weeks Marine’s dredge Magdalen is on the way from Eastern Shipbuilding Group’s Allanton shipyard. The forthcoming dredge R.B. Weeks is expected to be delivered early next… Read More
Members of the Panama City, Fla.-based Eastern Shipbuilding Group family, who incurred almost a direct hit from Hurricane Michael in October 2018 when the storm made landfall at Mexico Beach,… Read More
Representatives from Eastern Shipbuilding Group and Weeks Marine gathered at Eastern’s Allanton Shipyard in Panama City, Fla., August 19 to celebrate the steel cutting for the R.B. Weeks, a forthcoming… Read More
Eastern Shipbuilding Group recently delivered the second of two 80-foot, 5,100 hp. Z-drive tugs, the mv. A. Thomas Higgins, to Bisso Offshore LLC, a division of E.N. Bisso & Son… Read More
Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Panama City, Fla., announced April 6 that the U.S. Coast Guard has given approval to Eastern to build a second Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) and acquire long… Read More
Florida Marine Transporters (FMT), which operates one of the largest privately-owned fleets of towboats and barges at work on the nation’s inland waterways, is in the midst of a significant… Read More
