Conrad Morgan City
We have owned and operated our Morgan City, Louisiana shipyard since 1948. The yard is located on the Atchafalaya River approximately 30 miles from the Gulf of Mexico on approximately 11 acres. The shipyard has 14 buildings containing approximately 125,000 square feet of enclosed building area and ten overhead cranes. In addition, the shipyard has one drydock, one submersible launch barge, 1,700 linear feet of steel bulkhead, five rolling cranes and two slips. The buildings include offices for management and support personnel as well as three large fabrication warehouses specifically designed to accommodate marine vessel construction. The drydock is 120-feet by 52-feet drydocks and has a lifting capacitiy of 900 tons. During 2002, we completed an extension of one of our fabrication buildings to increase our enclosed building space by approximately 15,000 square feet and increase our efficiencies in making pre-fabricated components and in using modular construction techniques.
We manufacture a variety of small and medium sized vessels for commercial and governmental customers. All of our new vessel construction is done indoors in well-lighted space specifically designed to accommodate construction of marine vessels up to 350 feet in length. As a result, marine vessel construction is not hampered by weather conditions, and we are able to more effectively utilize our workforce and equipment.
We employ modular construction techniques and zone outfitting, which involve the installation of pipe, electrical wiring and other systems at the modular stage, thereby reducing construction time while at the same time simplifying systems integration and improving quality.
