Atlantic Marine

Atlantic Marine
Type Private
Industry Shipbuilding
Founded prior to 1980
Headquarters Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Services Ship conversion, repairs and maintenance, and steel fabrication
Employees 600
For the marine ecozone of the northwest Atlantic Ocean, see Atlantic Marine Ecozone (CEC).

Atlantic Marine is an American shipbuilding and construction company. It operates two shipyards, one in Mobile, Alabama and the original corporate location, a smaller one in Jacksonville, Florida where its headquarters is located. It was acquired by BAE Systems in May 2010 for $352 million.[1]

As Atlantic Marine Holdings, the company took over the shipyard of the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company in 1992. In 2006, the company was itself taken over by an investment firm run by former U.S. Navy Secretary John F. Lehman and is now known simply as Atlantic Marine.

The company offers a variety of services, including shipbuilding, ship repairs, maintenance and conversion, and also steel fabrication for industrial uses. The Alabama drydock facility can service vessels of up to 46,400 tons, including cargo and cruise ships, and the shipyard also offers repair and conversion facilities for "drilling rigs and semi-submersibles that serve the offshore oil industry."[2]

The Jacksonville drydock can service vessels of up ot 14,600 tons, and specializes in "mega-yacht repairs and refits, as well as commercial and U.S. Navy ship repairs and conversions, marine fabrication, and industrial fabrication and machining."[3]

The company employed 600 fulltime workers in 2005.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Hoyos, Carola (2010-09-11). "BAE prepares to streamline US business". The Financial Times (London). 
  2. ^ Gulf Coast Facility, Atlantic Marine website.
  3. ^ East Coast Facility, Atlantic Marine website.
  4. ^ Notes on Mobile Alabama Economics.

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