Ingalls celebrates 75 years

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Ingalls Shipbuilding held a Family Day on Saturday to commemorate 75 years of building ships on the banks of the Pascagoula River. Mississippi's largest private employer builds Aegis-guided missile destroyers, amphibious assault ships and amphibious transport ships for the U.S. Navy and National Security Cutters for the U.S. Coast Guard. It has more than 11,000 people working in South Mississippi. In addition to a weekly payroll of about $15 million, the company from 2010 to 2012 paid $57 million in taxes. In addition to the direct impact, there’s the indirect. Each manufacturing job at Ingalls creates three to five additional jobs in small business and retail. (Source: Sun Herald, 10/19/13)