China commissioned its first semi-submersible logistics ship for the People’s Liberation Army – Navy (PLAN) in a July 10 ceremony at the PLAN’s Zhanjiang Naval Base in Guangdong Province. CCTV Image ...

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 ...

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 ...

General Dynamics NASSCO announced it has received a $60m contract from the U.S. Navy to purchase long-lead materials for the construction of a third Mobile Landing Platform (MLP) ship. NASSCO is ...

SAN DIEGO, June 16 (UPI) --The U.S. Navy's third Mobile Landing Platform, the USNS Lewis B. Puller, has been delivered to the service in California by General Dynamics NASSCO. The USNS Lewis B. Puller ...

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 ...

Crowley said it has been awarded a contract for the operation and maintenance of six government-owned Maritime Prepositioning Force (MPF) vessels, a unit of the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command ...

SAN DIEGO, March 13 (UPI) -- General Dynamics NASSCO reports it delivered a second Mobile Landing Platform-class ship this week to the U.S. Navy. The auxiliary ship is the USNS John Glenn (MLP 2), the ...

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 ...