MN 100: VT Halter Marine, Inc.

900 Bayou Casotte Parkway
Pascagoula, Mississippi 39581
Telephone: 228 696 6888
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.vthaltermarine.com
CEO: William (Bill) E. Skinner
COO: Paul J. Albert

The Company:
VT Halter Marine is based in Pascagoula, home to the company’s corporate headquarters, engineering, fabrication and a foreign trade zone. Its yard there produces Panamax-sized vessels up to 50,000 DWT and features a newly expanded 600’ tilt-beam launch system, also provides steel cutting and engineering services for its other two facilities: Moss Point Marine, utilized for commercial projects; and Halter Moss Point, for government programs.     
 
The Case:
VT Halter Marine, Inc. specializes in ship design, construction and repair. The group combines its 60-plus years of experience with cutting edge technology to earn acclaim as one of the world’s largest designers and builders of medium-sized vessels, logistic support vessels, surveillance and rescue vessels, defense, coastal craft and vehicle/passenger vessels. VT Halter has delivered more than 2,600 vessels to clients in 29 countries.

(As published in the August 2014 edition of Marine News - http://magazines.marinelink.com/Magazines/MaritimeNews)