Roger Oliver News

Situated in the far southwest corner of Bayou La Batre, Alabama, sits a top ship and boat building company, Horizon Shipbuilding. For more than 15 years, Horizon has been building an array of impressive vessels, ranging from 30-ft. boats for the U.S. Navy to 200-ft. supply vessels. The family run business covers 12 acres with every available space dedicated to building, repairing and maintaining boats. Horizon Shipbuilding is a full service company whose capabilities include design, construction, operation, maintenance and repair. One of the most common boats Horizon builds are the 140-ft.

Build a barge from start to finish in nine days…impossible? Not for Horizon’s supercrew. “Necessity is the mother of invention”, said Ben Forrest, Horizon’s Project Manager. “The Deepwater Horizon oil spill created that necessity. These barges are needed and they’re needed now. Our guys really stepped up and made it happen. Horizon’s craftsmen, under the leadership of Roger Oliver, Production Superintendent and Ty Gunter, Assistant Production Superintendent, met the challenge.