Higgins manufactured more than 20,000 boats during his decades-long ... The LCVP for which Higgins was famed was based on the design of a Japanese landing craft used in the late 1930s.

Assault Craft Unit 2, based at JEB Little Creek-Fort ... equipment or vehicles from ship to shore. Think D-Day landing — and ...

A recent trial by the Marine Corps of an experimental landing ship ended with the vessel failing to offload equipment at a ...

The initiative involves BMT providing the design for the landing craft, leveraging their Caimen Landing Craft concept.

Japan Marine United (JMU) and BMT report that they have been contracted by Japan’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) to design and build the next-generation high speed landing craft, ...