Navy Awards $816.6M New York (LPD 21) Contract to Northrop Grumman
U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation an $816.6 million contract for construction of New York (LPD 21), the fifth ship in the 12 ship LPD 17 series of San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ships. New York will be built at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems' Avondale Operations in New Orleans, with fabrication support from three other company facilities in Pascagoula and Gulfport, Miss., and Tallulah, La. The ship will be equipped to conduct amphibious warfare missions by embarking, transporting and landing elements of a landing force during an assault by helicopters, landing craft and amphibious vehicles. "Northrop Grumman Ship Systems has four other San Antonio-class ships under construction at our Gulf Coast facilities…
Navy Awards $816.6M New York (LPD 21) Contract to Northrop
Corporation announced that the U.S. Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ships. Pascagoula and Gulfport, Miss., and Tallulah, La. vehicles. and the future of expeditionary warfare," said Dr. Philip A. corporate vice president and president, Northrop Grumman Ship Systems. New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. England announced the name of the ship. York. the ship's construction. Dur. replace four classes of older amphibious ships. largest in the Navy's 21st Century Amphibious Ready Groups. of up to 800 Marines. delivery planned by the end of 2007. fleet support offices in the U.S. and Japan. for the U.S. Navy, U.S. commercial vessels of all types.
U.S. Tariffs on Steel Imports Impacts Rautaruukki
Steel exports to the USA accounted for just over 2.5 per cent of Rautaruukki's turnover in 2001. The Group supplied a total of some 4.7 million tonnes of steel last year, and just over 80,000 tonnes of this went to the USA. The US decision to impose tariffs on steel imports will not therefore have a major direct impact on Rautaruukki's business operations. Rautaruukki has alternative plans for sales to compensate for the exports to the USA. It is thought that the impact of the US decision to impose import tariffs, which was widely anticipated by the steel markets, has already been passed on to steel prices, which are low, at the end of 2001 and the start of this year. For that reason the US decision is not expected to have any major impact on product prices in Europe.
