Press Releases

Marine Marinette, WI: Fincantieri Marinette Marine announced today that Vice Admiral Richard W. Hunt, USN (Ret.), a former Director of Navy Staff with a nearly four-decade career in the U.S. Navy, has joined the company. He will serve as the American shipbuilder’s Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Institutional Relations. “The U.S. Navy needs the best, […]

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WASHINGTON/ROME: The U.S. Navy awarded to FINCANTIERI (FCT.MI) subsidiary, Marinette Marine Corporation, a $15M contract to evolve its FREMM-design into the next generation FFG(X) guided missile frigate. Closely matched to U.S. Navy requirements, six FREMM frigates are in service with the Italian Navy and have successfully completed multi-role missions worldwide. A FREMM-based design has also […]

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Washington, D.C – Fincantieri Marine Group announced further details on its plans to adapt its “Best‐in‐ Class” FREMM frigate, already in service for the Italian Navy since 2012, to design the U.S. Navy’s new guided‐missile frigate, FFG(X). FINCANTIERI will lead an experienced industry team, including Gibbs & Cox and Trident Maritime Systems, to design and build […]



STURGEON BAY, WI: Shipyard workers in the chilly Great Lakes region now have a proud connection to a privately held, family business that’s growing in the warm waters off the Gulf Coast. Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding delivered an articulated tug-barge unit (ATB) to Wawa Inc., a company based on the East Coast with a growing fuel […]



MARINETTE, WI – The U.S. Navy awarded the Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM) team a contract to build an additional LCS. The contract value is under the 2017 congressional cost cap of $584 million per ship. LCS 27 will be built at Fincantieri Marinette Marine, the Midwest’s only naval shipyard, and is […]

MARINETTE, WI  – Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Fincantieri Marinette Marine delivered the future USS Little Rock (LCS 9) to the U.S. Navy on Sept. 25. The future USS Little Rock, the fifth Freedom-variant LCS built by Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri Marinette Marine, is scheduled to be commissioned in Buffalo later this year. She will […]