Mobile, AL: BAE Shipyard is closing

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It is sad when you learn about a facility because it is closing. (source) Are the ships in the bays in the satellite image just being stored or were they that busy not too long ago?

I could not find any tracks on that peninsula even though there are a lot of terminals on it. A lot of it must be ship to pipeline or ship to barge. Otherwise the roads in the area are going to have a lot of truck traffic. I wonder if the lack of rail service is why this shipyard was chosen for the axe.

Update: some comments on the source posting:

William Littrell World Marine of Alabama receives steel, machinery and other bulk shipments for BAE then it is trucked across the river channel via the tunnel or Cochrane Africatown Bridge at St Louis Point.
http://www.worldmarine.com/contact/procurement/

William Littrell Rail deliveries of steel for BAE are accepted by World Marine of Alabama and Signal Ship Repair.
America can't compete with the Chinese, Japanese (not so cheap) and Korea when it comes to cheap ship building and maintenance.
https://www.marineinsight.com/.../top-10.../amp/

Dennis DeBruler Decades ago, the sugar farmers in the US got a big tariff put on sugar. The result was that many of the factories that made candy left the country so that they could still buy cheap foreign sugar. So not only did the farmers loose their jobs anyhow, they destroyed the jobs of a lot of candy makers. Your comments make me wonder if we are going to see the same thing happen with another layer of steel-consuming companies such as cranes. They already slapped tarrifs on washing machines.