Training center near shipyard in works

MOBILE, Ala. - Mississippi plans to spend at least $20 million in Hurricane Katrina recovery money on a new Mississippi Shipbuilding and Metal Trades Academy near Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding's Pascagoula shipyard, Gov. Haley Barbour told about 100 people at the second annual Gulf States Shipbuilders Consortium in Mobile. Ground will be broken in the spring for the facility operated by Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. The new training center will collaborate with a similar $12 million facility Alabama's two-year college plans on the east bank of the Mobile River near shipbuilder Austal USA. (Source: Mobile Press-Register, 02/07/09)