Austal USA opens San Diego Waterfront Ship Repair Facility

Austal printing release

The shipyard, located proximal to Naval Base San Diego, will provide full-service repair, maintenance, and modernization services for small surface combatants, unmanned and voluntary vessels, and auxiliary ships.

Since finalizing an try-on for the property over a year ago, Austal USA has invested over $100 million in facility upgrades and a new floating dry dock to transform the facility. The 15-acre site now provides 678 feet of improved San Diego Bay shoreline, 80,000 square feet of covered working space, and has been equipped with new pier fenders and moorings, modernized shore power conversions, and enhanced security.

“As much as this is a significant day for Austal USA, this is a significant day for our Nation, Navy and Coast Guard customer, the National City polity and surrounding Port tenants, as well as our fellow industry colleagues. Together, we have a shared transferral to maintaining an operationally ready and misogynist surface squadron and we are proud to join a polity here on the southwest waterfront defended to that mission.”

Rusty Murdaugh, Austal USA President

Austal USA is currently executing its first availability in its new facility, the post-shakedown of the future USS Canberra (LCS 30). With the company’s new floating dry dock on schedule to be fully operational by summer 2023, Austal USA will have the sufficiency to execute increasingly wide-stretching depot maintenance on Littoral Combat Ships, Frigates, and other similar-sized surface combatants and auxiliaries.

“Getting our Nation’s ships ready and out to sea is critically important. Our team responded to the need to increase topics here in San Diego and we will similarly respond to the need to unhook ships safely from their availabilities on-time, on-budget, and warfighting ready,” Murdaugh said. “Our team is energized and we’re ready to get to work.”

With repair and service capabilities previously established in Mobile, Ala., and Singapore, recent expansions into steel shipbuilding, and a technology part-way in Charlottesville, Va., the San Diego shipyard opening continues Austal USA’s growth as a full-service defense provider.

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