- Atlantic Marine (company)
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name = Atlantic Marine
type = Private
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foundation = 1992?
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location_city =Jacksonville, Florida
location_country = USA
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industry =Shipbuilding
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services = Ship conversion, repairs and maintenance, and steel fabrication
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num_employees = 600
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intl = :"For the marine ecozone of the northwest Atlantic Ocean, seeAtlantic Marine (ecozone) ."Atlantic Marine is an American shipbuilding and construction company. It operates two shipyards, one inAlabama and a second, smaller one inJacksonville, Florida where its corporate headquarters is located.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 SecretaryJohn 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. Its Alabama
drydock facility can service vessels of up to 46,400 tons, including cargo andcruise ship s, and the shipyard also offers repair and conversion facilities for "drilling rig s and semi-submersibles that serve the offshore oil industry." [ [http://www.atlanticmarine.com/facilities_gulf_coast.htm Gulf Coast Facility] , Atlantic Marine website.]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." [ [http://www.atlanticmarine.com/facilities_east_coast.htm East Coast Facility] , Atlantic Marine website.]
The company employed 600 fulltime workers in 2005. [ [http://www.flotte2.com/MobileEconomics Notes on Mobile Alabama Economics] .]
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* [http://www.flotte2.com/MobileEconomics Notes on Mobile Alabama Economics] .
* [http://www.atlanticmarine.com/index.htm Atlantic Marine website] .
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