thyssenkrupp Marine Systems has reached an agreement with the Israeli Ministry of Defence on the framework conditions for the purchase of three Dakar-class submarines.
General Dynamics NASSCO has started construction on the future USS Robert E. Simanek (ESB 7), the fifth ship of the Navy’s reclassified Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) program.
Fincantieri and Navantia have reached an agreement on a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in order to boost their relationship and explore the joint benefit of a broadened collaboration in the naval and maritime domains.
The French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) has awarded Naval Group the contract for the preliminary and detailed design of the Ocean Patrol Vessel program.
More Royal Navy sailors will be trained in taking ships into challenging polar waters thanks to a new collaborative agreement with the Canadian Coast Guard.
On October 11, the Arbitration Tribunal in The Hague will begin hearings on the jurisdiction in the case of Ukraine against Russia regarding the seizure of Ukrainian sailors and ships of the Ukrainian Navy in November 2018.
The U.S. Navy has created a new task group on the East Coast to ensure it has ready destroyers that can deploy on short notice to counter the Russian submarine threat in the Atlantic Ocean.