April 3, 2013: The U.S. Navy recently received the first (USNS Montford Point) of three Mobile Landing Platform (T-MLP) ships. These 34,500 ton vessels are, in effect, seagoing piers for situations ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO -- USNS Montford Point (MLP 1) departed San Diego July 12 for Naval Station Everett, Wash. Montford Point is the Navy's first mobile landing platform, delivered to the Navy in San Diego May ...

General Dynamics NASSCO hold keel laying ceremony in its San Diego faciltiy for the future 'USNS John Glenn' (MLP 2). Delivery of this second MLP ship is scheduled for first quarter 2014, and is to be ...