ASENAV said the Patagon II has completed scrapping in Valdivia after four decades in service. The vessel was one of the early conversions that helped establish Chile’s wellboat logistics for salmon farming.
ASENAV has begun construction of a barge for Lago O’Higgins after cutting steel at its Valdivia yard on 28 January 2026. The vessel, ordered by Chile’s Ministry of Public Works through its Ports Works Directorate, will be 27.4 metres long and carry up to 25 passengers, four cars or two trucks or minibuses.
The 678-foot S/S Wilfred Sykes left Fraser Shipyards in Superior, Wisconsin, this past weekend after hull repairs and other work. Fraser said Central Marine Logistics again chose the yard for the vessel.
The French Navy said its recruitment needs will rise 20% in 2026 compared with 2025 incorporations, including the new national service due to start in September 2026. It said 600 contracts are open this year for that scheme, while Naval Group said it recruited 4,500 people over the past three years.
Naval Group’s Cherbourg site and UIMM Grand Ouest Normandie launched a training route in June 2026 for formage-dressage, a metalworking trade used on submarine structures. Ten candidates will take three months of initial training before a 24-month alternance at the yard.
Naval Group said the French frigate Amiral Ronarc'h has completed a long-duration deployment that took it from the North Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico. The company said the trial is intended to validate systems, crew performance and interoperability before a first major maintenance stop in Brest between September and December 2026.
About 15 Naval Group employees joined Thales’s cortAIx teams from March to July 2026, and have worked full-time at Ollioules since early July. The work is focused on AI for naval systems, including collaborative combat, mission autonomy for drone swarms, logistics support and tactical situation modules.
Rivergate Marina and Shipyard has marked 20 years since the project was launched on Brisbane’s former industrial riverfront at Murarrie. The yard said the site began as a $150 million greenfield development and has since grown into a superyacht refit base that has handled more than 150 superyachts in its first decade and hundreds more since.
Naval Group has teamed up with French SME Starnav to integrate the Magellan astro-inertial navigation system into its surface ships. The system is designed to calculate a vessel’s position by using stars and the sun when GPS or GNSS signals are lost or jammed, with sea trials planned for 2027.
Two Naval Group employees described their work inside cortAIx, the joint venture focused on AI-based solutions for the defence contractor. Clément said he joined the JV after arriving at Naval Group in 2020 as a data scientist, while Jean-Guillaume said he moved over after nearly three years as a DevOps engineer.
Cantiere delle Marche has delivered the 35m Deep Blue 115 Octopus to her owners. The yard said the yacht was delivered to experienced American yacht enthusiasts after a build involving Horacio Bozzo, Giorgio M. Cassetta and IYC.
Naval Group cut steel for the first SNLE 3G submarine at Cherbourg on 20 March 2024, starting construction of the class that will replace France’s Le Triomphant boats. The first boat, L’Invincible, is due to be launched in 2036 and delivered at the end of 2037.