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SHIPYARD JOBS

Gulf Copper & Manufacturing Corp SAFE Boats International is currently hiring is constantly on the lookout for for a variety of positions in production, quality tradesmen. engineering and other support roles.

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With three busy yards along the U.S. Gulf Coast and a healthily backlog of government and private vessel work,

Gulf Copper & Manufacturing Corp is constantly on the lookout for quality tradesmen, according to Mark Ashwell,

Managing Director of Business Development. “With sev- eral large projects secured, Gulf Copper will look for 20-30 more staff for project support per facility,” he said.

Many other shipyards along the Gulf Coast say they are hiring too. Edison Chouest Offshore, which very recently an- nounced it will build and operate the ? rst-ever U.S.-? agged

Jones Act compliant service operations vessel (SOV), used for offshore wind farm operation and maintenance works, will spread the build across its shipyards in Florida, Missis- sippi and Louisiana, creating more than 300 new jobs in the process. In addition, one of Chouest’s shipbuilding facilities,

Gulf Ship in Gulfport, Miss., is expanding and making fa- cilities improvements to ful? ll a new tugboats contract. This project will create more than 200 new jobs.

Some 30 miles east, repair yard ST Engineering Halter

Marine and Offshore is expanding in Pascagoula, Miss. through a $10 million corporate investment project that will create 100 jobs and add equipment, dock space, wa- ter depth and other upgrades to prepare the shipyard to handle larger ships and oil platforms.

Eastern Shipbuilding Group says on its website that it regularly hires workers in a wide range of hands-on ship- building roles. As of September 30, group also had no less 35 www.marinelink.com MN