Seafarers International Union (SIU) affiliated Ocean Ships to operate 3 new mobile landing platform vessels (MLP) for US Navy. The vessels are being built at General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego; they ...

With the recent acceptance trials by Mobile Landing Platform (MLP-2) USNS John Glenn, U.S. Navy officials are boasting of MLP capabilities and the need to get the ships into service. The Glenn ...

The U.S. Navy will propose a 14-ship Maritime Prepositioning Force (Future), or MPF(F), as part of its long-term shipbuilding plans. The proposal includes a new class of 28,423-ton Mobile Landing ...

The mobile landing platform USNS Lewis B. Puller (MLP 3/AFSB) has received its C4I suite. Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) installed the suite aboard Lewis B. Puller, the ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla., June 25 (UPI) --The U.S. Navy has installed a C4I suite aboard its newest Mobile Landing Platform ship, the USNS Lewis B. Puller. The installation of the command, control, ...

June 4, 2016: China has launched the first of several semi-submersible ships for commercial, not military uses. The new, 211 meter long 90,000 DWT (deadweight ton) ships are aimed at firms that build ...

USNS Montford Point (MLP 1) departs San Diego for Naval Station Everett, Wash. Montford Point is the Navy’s first mobile landing platform, delivered to the Navy in San Diego May 14 and expected to be ...