Government Maritime Agencies Explained: Who Regulates What
A directory-style guide to the agencies that govern safety, customs, and navigation, and how their duties divide.
Government News
Government News covers maritime commerce as an industry: shipyard order books, marine equipment manufacturers, shipping line earnings, freight rates, consolidation and state support schemes. Numbers come from filings and published indices. Useful for investors, suppliers, charterers and officials assessing the commercial health of the maritime sector.
Financial reporting on shipyards, marine suppliers and shipping lines, covering order books, freight rates, consolidation and government support.
How to Read a Shipyard's Order Book: Backlog, Slots, and Signals
Backlog value, delivery slots, and order-to-delivery timelines say more about a shipbuilder's health than any single contract award.
How Fixed-Price Incentive Contracts Shape Navy Shipbuilding
An explainer on the contract type behind most U.S. Navy warship programs, why the Navy prefers it, and what recent oversight findings say about how well it works.
Navy Recruiting Turnaround: 44,096 Accessions Against a 40,600 Goal in Fiscal 2025
The Navy ended fiscal year 2025 with 44,096 enlisted accessions against a goal of 40,600, roughly 108.6 percent of target, in what the Defense Department described as the military's best recruiting year in 15 years.
GAO Finds Navy's Billions in Shipyard Investment Lack a Fully Developed Strategy
A Government Accountability Office report published on February 27, 2025 concluded that despite billions invested in private shipbuilders and repair yards, the Navy lacks a strategy for deciding where ship industrial base money goes.
NAVFAC Awards $442 Million Contract to Modernize Dry Dock 3 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard
NAVFAC Atlantic awarded a $442.1 million firm-fixed-price contract on December 4, 2025 to General Contractors Inc. to modernize Dry Dock 3 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard under the Navy's shipyard infrastructure program.