[CPEO-MEF] Baltimore ship-scrapping

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Point company gets contract to scrap 2 Navy cargo ships
Sparrows Point's ghost town of a shipyard lands a small contract that 
could lead to much more work.


By Paul Adams
Baltimore Sun
September 14, 2004

The investment partnership trying to revitalize the defunct Sparrows 
Point shipyard has won a $2.3 million federal contract to break two 
retired Navy reserve cargo ships into scrap in what the new owners hope 
is just the initial installment of an ambitious plan to bring hundreds 
of workers back to a historic waterfront industrial site in Baltimore 
County.

North American Ship Recycling, a subsidiary of Boston-based Barletta 
Willis LLC, won the contract as part of the U.S. Maritime 
Administration's efforts to scrap dozens of rusting ships mothballed on 
the James River in Virginia. The relatively small contract will bring 
about 50 jobs to the shipyard, but U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman 
Y. Mineta said yesterday that the company could be selected to scrap 
potentially dozens more World War II-era ships if it can do the work for 
the right price.

"They [the mothballed ships] served this great nation very well at the 
time, but time has passed them by and they don't meet our modern 
requirements, so we've been looking for some help in disposing of them," 
Mineta said at a news conference held at Sparrows Point.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-bz.shipyard14sep14,1,6983753.story


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