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BLOUNT SMALL SHIP Adventures is making available its two vessels, the Grande Mariner, pictured, and the Grande Caribe, as temporary housing for medical personnel on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. / COURTESY BLOUNT SMALL SHIP ADVENTURES

Stepping Up: Blount Small Ship Adventures offering vessels as temporary housing...

Coronavirus 04/13/2020

WARREN – Seeing his two cruise vessels at the docks, with the prospects of no passengers on the horizon for the significant future, is...

MAKING PLANS: Chelsea Siefert, Quonset Development Corp.’s new planning director, speaks with Steven King, managing director.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Five Questions With Chelsea Siefert

5Q 08/30/2019

Chelsea Siefert | Director of planning and development, Quonset Development Corp. 1. What was your previous job and how does it relate to your new...

GENERAL DYNAMICS ELECTRIC BOAT has been awarded about $2.5 billion in contract increases this year for its work on the Navy's next generation of nuclear subs, called the Columbia class. / COURTESY GENERAL DYNAMICS ELECTRIC BOAT

Electric Boat receives $2.5 billion in sub contract increases this spring

Economic Activity 05/24/2019

PROVIDENCE – So far, federal funding is falling into place nicely for defense contractor General Dynamics Electric Boat, one of Rhode Island’s largest employers....

LARGER SPACE: Edesia, a maker of food products for customers such as UNICEF that ship goods overseas to feed malnourished children, outgrew its original facility in Providence and made the move to the Quonset Business Park in North Kingstown in 2016, opening an 83,000-square-foot, high-tech factory. From left, Executive Director Maria Kasparian, founder and CEO Navyn Salem and HMI Controller Jorge Campos work in the factory.  / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

How much growth is left at Quonset?

Capital Goods 03/29/2019

Steven J. King rolls up in a company-issued sport utility vehicle to a graveled construction site in a wooded area, at the end of...

IMPROVEMENTS UNDERWAY: ProvPort Terminal Manager Chris Waterson identifies a section of the port that will handle wind turbines. The port is undergoing improvements after voters in 2016 approved $20 million in upgrades. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Can the Ocean State stay in the race for offshore wind-energy...

Cover Story 03/08/2019

The nation’s first offshore wind farm is spinning off Block Island. But Rhode Island appears to be playing catch-up to neighboring Massachusetts in preparing...

General Dynamics Electric Boat reports that it has hired 1,000 people at Quonset Point, in part to work on the Virginia sub modules./COURTESY ELECTRIC BOAT.

Electric Boat president says R.I. training programs are working, plans to...

Economic Activity 01/22/2018

WARWICK – General Dynamics Electric Boat plans to hire another 1,000 people this year for its manufacturing site at Quonset Point in North Kingstown,...