WorkBoat Weekly

The WorkBoat Weekly news brief is an audio rundown of the top commercial marine stories selected by the WorkBoat editorial team, from newbuilds and regulatory shifts to emerging vessel tech and the people shaping the industry. New episodes every week at workboat.com.

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  Episode #8

  WORKBOAT WEEKLY — Ep. 8 — Hanwha’s $1.2B Austal Bid, $35M for Small Shipyards & Army Landing Vessel

  Aug 14, 20265 minS0

  You're listening to the WorkBoat Weekly. Your quick hit on the stories shaping the commercial marine industry. Here's what's making news this week.<br> We start with a major acquisition move that could reshape U.S. defense shipbuilding.<br> <br> The South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group has offered to buy Austal USA., the Alabama-based builder of Navy and Coast Guard vessels, for up to 1.2 billion dollars. The nonbinding proposal values the business at between one and 1.2 billion, and Austal has given the South Korean company four weeks to examine its U.S. books before deciding whether to proceed.<br> WorkBoat...

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  Episode #7

  WORKBOAT WEEKLY — Ep. 7 — New Washington ferry, Great Lakes' untapped potential & Nichols Brothers wins SF Bay contract

  Aug 6, 20266 minS0

  You're listening to the WorkBoat Weekly. Your quick hit on the stories shaping the commercial marine industry. Here's what's making news this week.<br> We start in Panama City, Florida, where Eastern Shipbuilding Group has cut the first steel on Washington State's first new ferry in 11 years.<br> The vessel is a 160-vehicle, 1,500-passenger hybrid-electric ferry designed by Elliott Bay Design Group — part of a two-boat contract with an option for a third. Washington Governor Bob Ferguson announced this week he's exercising that option. Three ferries total, at a contract value of 714.5 million dollars, coming in well under the 1.3 billion ap...

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  Episode #6

  WORKBOAT WEEKLY — Ep. 6 — Navy's $77B submarine order, RIB shakeup & Boston Harbor ferry refit

  Jul 31, 20264 minS0

  You're listening to the WorkBoat Weekly. Your quick hit on the stories shaping the commercial marine industry. Here's what's making news this week.<br> The U.S. Navy just placed one of the largest shipbuilding orders in American history — nearly 77 billion dollars for 14 nuclear-powered submarines split between two of the country's most important yards: General Dynamics Electric Boat in Connecticut and Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia.<br> The order covers two types of boats. The Columbia-class carries America's sea-based nuclear deterrent — ballistic missile submarines at the core of the country's strategic arsenal. The Virginia-class are the Navy's fast-attack workhorse, built for...

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  Episode #5

  WORKBOAT WEEKLY — Ep. 5 — SHIPS for America, Korea's $150B shipbuilding bet & a Coast Guard boat racing to save veterans

  Jul 24, 20264 minS0

  You're listening to the WorkBoat Weekly. Your quick hit on the stories shaping the commercial marine industry. Here's what's making news this week.<br> We start in Washington, where Congress is taking its most concrete step yet toward rebuilding American shipbuilding and the U.S.-flag fleet.<br> A House Rules Committee report on the defense authorization bill includes a sweeping maritime amendment — the SHIPS for America Act — that would fundamentally change how the government supports domestic shipping.<br> The headline provision: doubling down on cargo preference. Right now U.S.-flag vessels are required to carry at least half of c...

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  Episode #4

  WORKBOAT WEEKLY — Ep. 4 — Saronic goes big in Texas, Navy's new landing ship model & Wall Street meets shipbuilding

  Jul 17, 20264 minS0

  You're listening to the WorkBoat Weekly. Your quick hit on the stories shaping the commercial marine industry. Here's what's making news this week.<br> We start in Texas, where Saronic Technologies has picked Brownsville as the home of Port Alpha — a planned shipyard that could become one of the largest in the country.<br> More than 3 billion dollars in planned investment. Operations targeted for 2028. The initial footprint is 835 acres at the Port of Brownsville with room to grow to nearly 4,400 acres.<br> What makes this different from most shipyard announcements is the approach. Saronic isn't retrofitting an existing yard. They're bu...

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