Shipyard Welding

Friday, 08 December 2023

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Escambia schools are training next generation of skilled workers | Guestview

Pensacola News Journal 26 Nov 2023

There are more than 11 million open positions in our economy and many of those positions don’t require a four-year degree. High paying jobs in welding or plumbing or pipe fitting and other trades are in high demand ... We’ve worked hard to close that skills gap ... Navy. Our welding professionals are in big demand at the shipyards in Mississippi.

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Korea embraces increasing number of foreign workers at shipyards

Korea Times 21 Nov 2023

“Due to the labor shortage, we have hired many workers from Thailand for welding and painting jobs,” Jeon Myung-woo, senior managing director of SK oceanplant, said earlier this month at the company’s shipyard ... Complaints about the language barrier at domestic shipyards prompted ...

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Hanwha Ocean seeks greener, smarter shipyard

Korea Times 30 Oct 2023

A robot welds steel plates during a demonstration at Hanwha Ocean's shipyard on Geoje Island in South Gyeongsang Province, Friday ... But still, the number of foreign workers is not enough to address the lingering labor shortage at domestic shipyards, according to Hanwha Ocean.

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HD Hyundai to Expand Digital Automation to Improve Shipyard Productivity

The Maritime Executive 19 Oct 2023

plans to accelerate the deployment of digital automation to improve shipyard productivity and address the pressing lack of labor to meet the company’s order backlog ... They expect the first step will be the introduction of robots for steel plate molding and welding at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard's shipyard located in Ulsan.

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HD Hyundai and Siemens sign for smart shipyards

SAFETY4SEA 19 Oct 2023

HD Hyundai said that by 2025, it would initially install robots for steel plate moulding and welding at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard’s shipyard in the southeastern industrial city of ...

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HD Hyundai teams with Siemens to develop smart shipyards

Splash24/7 18 Oct 2023

... giant Siemens to turn its shipyards into smart ones ... HD Hyundai explained it will first introduce robots for steel plate molding and welding at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard’s shipyard by 2025 and establish a cyber-physical system related to design.

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Inside Business 2023 Top Forty Under 40: Jordan Webb, Colonna’s Shipyard Inc.

Daily Press 16 Oct 2023

Executive vice president of shipyard operations, Colonna’s Shipyard Inc ... Founded in 1875, Colonna’s Shipyard is in the Berkley section of Norfolk and is the oldest continuous family-owned and -operated private shipyard in the U.S ... I am responsible for the entirety of the shipyard business unit.

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Shipbuilders embrace robotics amid labor shortage

Korea Times 14 Oct 2023

As a result, domestic shipbuilders have focused particularly on introducing welding robots to their shipyards, to address the labor shortage ... A Hanwha Ocean employee operates a collaborative welding robot at the company's shipyard on Geoje Island in South Gyeongsang Province in this January file photo.

photo: AP / Valeria Ferraro

Migrants wait to be transferred from Lampedusa Island, Italy, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. Lampedusa, which is closer to Africa than the Italian mainland, has been overwhelmed this week by thousands of people hoping to reach Europe from Tunisia, which has replaced Libya as the main base of operations for migrant smuggling operations in the Mediterranean.

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What's behind the surge in migrant arrivals to Italy?

Independent Online 17 Sep 2023

Here's what happened.HOW MANY MIGRANTS ARRIVED? ... That's 15 times its capacity and more than the island's full-time population ... But there are other underlying factors too ... In any case, experts agree that it's unlikely that smugglers go unnoticed as they weld dozens of iron boats in clandestine shipyards before launching them from beaches around Sfax ... .

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What’s behind the surge in migrant arrivals to Italy?

Wtop 15 Sep 2023

Here’s what happened. HOW MANY MIGRANTS ARRIVED? ... That’s 15 times its capacity and more than the island’s full-time population ... In any case, experts agree that it’s unlikely that smugglers go unnoticed as they weld dozens of iron boats in clandestine shipyards before launching them from beaches around Sfax ... ___ ... ___ ... Source .

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Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 532 of the invasion

The Guardian 09 Aug 2023

The strikes on Monday evening in the downtown district of the city of Pokrovsk killed nine people and wounded more than 80 others, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly address ... Interfax reported that a tanker hit in the Kerch strait by Ukrainian drones had a metal patch welded to its damaged hull and was ready to be towed to a shipyard.

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Phyllis N. Reiling Brondyke

Dispatch Argus 26 Jul 2023

April 21, 1927-July, 23, 2023. PORT BYRON—Phyllis n. Reiling Brondyke, 96, of port Byron, Illinois, died July, 23, 2023 at Illini Restorative care, Silvis, Illinois. services will be held at 10 a.m ... as a young woman during WWII, Phyllis moved to Oregon and was an overhead welder in the shipyard and became a welding instructor ... .

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Lamouroux: Auburn Rotary Club's book project has far reach

Auburnpub dot com 17 Jul 2023

Amy Lamouroux Special to The Citizen ... Spotify ... "International maritime, customs, shipping requirements, containers being custom-fitted and welded, coordinating the shipyard staging in Johannesburg for several endpoints all over Africa and making sure the proper people end up getting the right materials — it can be exhausting work just planning it ... .

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Phil Magwood

Tillamook Headlight Herald 04 Jul 2023

He studied welding and auto mechanics at PCC for two years after graduating in 1968 from Laurelwood Academy in Gaston, OR ... Over the next 12 years Phil worked in the shipyards and oil refineries doing pipe welding. 1982 Phil and Laura opened Magwood’s Welding in Nehalem where he was also in the volunteer Fire Dept.

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Fincantieri and Comau Unveil First Mobile Robot for Shipyard Welding

The Maritime Executive 28 Jun 2023

... solution to be used for outdoor welding in the company’s shipyards ... They intend to use the robot within Fincantieri shipyards to autonomously weld steel structures, reporting it could produce a possible three-fold increase in productivity compared to a manual process.