After more than 100 gate docking and undocking operations across more than 45 years, Concrete Tech Corp.’s Tacoma dry dock was in need of a replacement caisson gate, a 150-ft-long floating concrete ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va., July 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE: HII) announced today that its Newport News Shipbuilding division partnered with the Virginia Marine Resource Commission (VMRC) to donate ...

The caisson gate is a concrete floating structure that acts as a watertight lock at the dry dock’s entrance. It functions by sinking when the dry dock is empty by flooding its compartments with ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division worked with the Virginia Marine Resource Commission (VMRC) to make a donation that benefits both the environment and local anglers.

HII announced its Newport News Shipbuilding division partnered with the Virginia Marine Resource Commission (VMRC) to donate and sink a former dry dock caisson gate offshore, giving it new life as ...