PASCAGOULA — VT Halter Marine has gotten a contract to build an articulated tug barge for Bouchard Transportation Co. The contract includes an option for a second tug. Halter Marine officials say the option must be exercised within 60 days of the initial contract award. Halter Marine CEO Bill Skinner says in a news release [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 18,2013
Tags: capital investment, economic development, employee, employer, employment, expand, expansion, job, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, maritime, repair, ship, shipbuilding, work, worker
PASCAGOULA — Signet Maritime Corporate has announced plans for a $3.6-million expansion of its shipbuilding and repair operations at the Port of Pascagoula, creating 50 additional jobs. The company said the 50 spots have already been filled, and those new employees will assist the construction of a new tractor tugboat, Signet Magic, which is a [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 11,2012
Tags: board of supervisors, county, energy, government, land, manufacture, natural gas, property, REFINERY, ship, shipbuilding, supervisors, tax, tax erxemtion
PASCAGOULA — Jackson County supervisors have unanimously approved two 10-year tax exemptions for more than $838 million in true property value. The Mississippi Press reports Gulf LNG Energy received an exemption on nearly $828.5 million, and Ingalls Shipbuilding received an exemption on nearly $9.6 million on property value. County leaders say exemptions are granted on [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 6,2012
Tags: agency, boat, build, builder, building, constrctor, construction, e, employee, employment, expansion, government, incentive, job, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, marine, mployer, ship, shipbuilder, shipbuilding, state, work, worker
PASCAGOULA — VT Halter Marine has started construction on a new multimillion-dollar ship repair facility at the company’s Pascagoula yard. Gov. Phil Bryant and company officials say the expansion at the Bayou Casotte shipyard will create 400 new jobs. The company has three ship construction facilities, all located in Mississippi, with one facility in Pascagoula [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 5,2012
Tags: defense, employee, employer, employment, job, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, military, ship, shipbuilder, shipbuilding
PASCAGOULA — Ingalls Shipbuilding President Irwin F. Edenzon says the company will hire more than 5,000 workers over the next two years. Edenzon said Ingalls would be hiring 1,200 people through the end of the year and another 4,000 next year. Most of those are craftsman positions. The increase in demand for workers is attributed [...] [...]
PASCAGOULA — Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a $50.6-million contract by prime contractor Huntington Ingalls Industries to supply the Machinery Control System (MCS) for the U.S. Navy’s LHA-7 amphibious assault ship. The MCS controls the major shipboard systems including the highly automated propulsion, electric plant and fuel fill systems. The equipment being supplied includes [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 25,2012
Tags: contaminate, ecology, ecosystem, environment, fabricate, fabrication, fabricator, fine, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, pollution, portable toilet, sewage, ship, shipbuilder, shipbuilding, state agency, waste, wildlife
PASCAGOULA — Ingalls Shipbuilding has paid a $33,775 fine after a portable toilet dumped untreated waste into the East Pascagoula River for more than six years. Spokesman Bill Glenn says that the toilet station was connected to a storm drain at the Pascagoula shipyard after 2005′s Hurricane Katrina, instead of to the sewer system. The [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: September 18,2012
Tags: contract, defense, delivery, fabricate, fabrication, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, military, sdhipbuilder, ship, shipbuilding
PASCAGOULA — Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding Division has been awarded an $83.3 million cost-plus-award-fee contract from the U.S. Navy for continued life-cycle engineering, modernization and support services on the U.S. Navy’s fleet of USS Ticonderoga-class (CG 47) Aegis guided missile cruisers. The contract is the first of five options, which if exercised would place [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: September 12,2012
Tags: defense, fabricate, fabrication, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, military, ship, shipbuilder, shipbuilding
PASCAGOULA — Huntington Ingalls Industries has started fabrication on the U.S. Navy’s next Aegis guided missile destroyer, John Finn (DDG 113). The ship will be built at the company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division and will be the 29th Arleigh Burke-class destroyer built at Ingalls. Bob Merchent, Ingalls’ vice president, surface combatants and U.S. Coast Guard programs, [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: August 31,2012
Tags: defense, fabricate, fabrication, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, military, sea trial, ship, shipbuilder, shipbuilding
PASACAGOULA — The amphibious transport dock Arlington (LPD 24), the eighth built at Huntington Ingalls Industries, recently returned from successful builder’s sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico. Dock trials started last week, and the ship left HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division Aug. 21 for three days of at-sea testing. More than 200 test events took [...] [...]
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