NASSCO

NASSCO, the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, is an American shipbuilder and a division of General Dynamics, with yards in San Diego, Norfolk, Bremerton and Mayport. The San Diego yard builds commercial cargo ships and auxiliary vessels for the US Navy and the Military Sealift Command, and is the only new construction shipyard on the American West Coast. Its roots go back to a machine shop and foundry of 1905, and it took its present name in 1949. General Dynamics bought it in 1998 for 415 million dollars. NASSCO built the tanker Exxon Valdez, which was completed in 1986, the 14 ships of the Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo programme, the Mobile Landing Platform ships and the Matson Kanaloa-class freighters, and it has a contract for up to 20 John Lewis-class oilers.