BAE plans to shutter Mobile shipyard

BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards of Mobile, Ala., will be closing down near the end of June. BAE acquired the facility in 2010 from Atlantic Marine. The company’s primary function has been ship repair, working on many offshore service vessels, drilling rigs, and semi-submersible platforms over the past eight years. BAE is expected to lay off 155 of 170 workers by June’s end, according to Karl D. Johnson, director of communications. The remaining workers will finish a new-build project on a 350-foot multi-service vessel for Oceaneering International, which has facilities along the Gulf Coast in Morgan City, La., and Houston. It will be the last for BAE in Mobile. Some 75 workers will be let go by this weekend, according to Johnson. BAE’s headquarters is in Burlington, Va. (Source: Work Boat 03/01/18)