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rulf of Mexico (Continued from page 44) .ccording to Mike Williams, director Ingalls' Offshore Programs Business velopment, Ingalls is well positioned handle not only the technical mands but also the various cycles of 2 offshore market. Since most of galls revenue is generated on the naval ;ssel side, the shipyard has an enviable )ntinuity of workforce and technical Kpertise. Also, the company's accessi-ility to the Gulf ? just 11 miles from ie deepwater GOM with no air draft estrictions ? gives the yard the capa-)ility to handle the largest projects. Whereas Ingalls gets the majority of its business from the government, Atlantic Marine Holding Co.'s two yards in Mobile ? Alabama Shipyard (new construction) and Atlantic Marine - Mobile (repair and conversion ? are wholly dependent on the commercial market for their success. E.C. "Buddy" McCormick, president of Atlantic Marine - Mobile, attributes this com-mercial-only vision as a major plank in ensuring his customer's satisfaction, as it allows the ship repair and conversion professionals maximum flexibility in deploying the company's vast resources. "Our customers don't like to come into a shipyard," they'd rather their ships be operating and making money. "So our focus is on turnaround time...we get them in and get them out." While he admits that it might have been easy to be seduced by government work in the face of recent down offshore and marine markets, he staunchly believes ? in part from traveling the globe and visiting repair and conversion colleagues ? that government and com-mercial work don't mix. McCormick says Atlantic Marine-Mobile is a take-charge shipyard, and while the company is not always the low bidder, it always provides the best value. The company's president lists people, facilities and culture as the top reasons Atlantic Marine-Mobile has enjoyed great success since taking over the old World War II facility in 1989, and his assessment is more accurate than trite upon visiting the facilities. Alabama Shipyard, the newbuild facil-ity of Atlantic Marine Holding in Mobile, is currently involved in building the first of what it hopes is many OPA '90-compliant ATB barges. The unit ? which was designed by the shipyard in a variety of sizes for a variety of purposes ? is a 460 ft. (140 m), 135,000 barrel capacity notched barge for Reinauer Transportation, scheduled to enter ser-vice in December 1999. The unit will mate with a new 124-ft. (37.8 m) tug, November, 1999 Nicole Leigh Reinauer, which is being built at the Atlantic Marine Jacksonville facility. Bollinger Shipyard, in Lockport, La., has been steadily expanding and increasing its capabilities, seemingly making giant strides forward in non-ideal business conditions. The company has just finished implementing an advanced software solution system which effectively has tied all divisions together in an information sharing arrangement that will create new levels of efficiency and quality management. The company is unique in that it runs a healthy share of commercial and mili-tary business through its facilities, as Scott Theriot, Executive Vice President of new construction, estimates that 35 percent of the company's newbuilding business is military related. (Overall, the company has a fairly even 50/50 repair/new construction split.) While he admits that the process of becoming a Portable Dynamic Positioning Quickly convert any barge, boat or ship into a dynamically positioned work vessel. 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