PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- The 39,000 square-foot sandblast and paint building VT Bollinger has agreed to build will be integrated to allow within its walls complete surface preparation and final painting of unassembled ship sections. The idea is to keep emissions out of...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Investors have already spent more than $1 million on a new strip mall going into Shipyard Plaza, where Big Lots is one of the anchors. Shipyard Plaza, just west of the Wal-Mart Supercenter, is getting three stores of roughly 8,400 square feet, two...

Ingalls Shipbuilding and VT Bollinger of Pascagoula were among five companies that were awarded firm, fixed-price contracts from the U.S. Coast Guard for heavy polar icebreaker design studies and analysis. The other companies awarded contracts Wednesday were Bollinger...

South Mississippi's Gulfport and Ocean Springs have managed to land on two lists. Thrillist Travel released its list of underappreciated American cities and included Gulfport. Earlier, the travel website Expedia included Ocean Springs on a list of America’s more...

The Mississippi ports of Pascagoula and Gulfport signed agreements in Cuba on Monday with an eye to future business and with a Republican U.S. senator from the state looking on, despite concerns President Donald Trump might backtrack on improved relations. Sen. Thad...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- The keel of future guided-missile destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen, Jr. (DDG 121) was ceremoniously laid Feb. 21 at Huntington Ingalls Industries shipyard. Although official construction of DDG 121 began April 2016, the keel laying symbolically...

Huntington Ingalls Industries reported $7.1 billion in revenues for 2016, an increase of 0.7 percent from 2015. The Pascagoula shipbuilding division saw $641 million in revenue for the year, a 10.5 percent increase. President and CEO Mike Petters said Ingalls...

A dozen employees from Ingalls Shipbuilding and Newport News Shipbuilding were recognized for achievements in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields during the 31st annual Black Engineer of the Year Award STEM Global Competitiveness Conference...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division authenticated the keel of the eighth Coast Guard National Security Cutter, Midgett (WMSL 757) on Jan. 27. Ingalls has delivered six NSC to the Coast Guard, and two more are currently...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division officially started fabrication of the Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) destroyer Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123) on Jan. 25. The start of fabrication signifies that the first 100 tons of...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division received a $486 million fixed-price incentive contract from the U.S. Coast Guard to build a ninth National Security Cutter. NSCs are the flagships of the Coast Guard’s cutter fleet,...

MOBILE, Ala.  -- The Navy accepted delivery of the future USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) during a ceremony, Dec. 23. Gabrielle Giffords is the ninth littoral combat ship (LCS) to be delivered to the Navy and the fifth Independence variant to join the fleet. The...