The Navy has awarded San Diego’s General Dynamics-NASSCO $856 million to build a large John Lewis-class fleet fuel ship at its big shipyard on San Diego Bay, a contract that will help the company stabilize its 3,500-member workforce.
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The order is part of a larger contract for NASSCO, the last major shipyard on the West Coast. The oilers it produces are 746 feet long, making them among the largest vessels the company builds. NASSCO is contracted to construct a total of 17 oilers — vessels that travel upwards of 7,000 miles while carrying 157,000 barrels of oil, including biofuels.
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The shipyard is currently building fleet oilers named after the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Harriet Tubman, the late American abolitionist who played a key role in the Underground Railroad, which helped enslaved African Americans escape from the American South to free states and Canada.
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