More good news for the shipbuilding industry in Mississippi

KRT Wire | 09/08/2005 | PASCAGOULA: VT Halter Marine puts 350 to work:

"VT Halter Marine Tuesday opened its doors and found work for 350 employees, and he expects to begin calling back hundreds of its contract workers over the next few weeks. Ship production will restart in the last week of September, and will ramp up from that point."

VT Halter Marine had seven vessels under construction when Katrina hit and a substantial backlog of future work. If that work can be kept at its three Mississippi facilities, that will be very good news for the local economy.