Austal USA President Rusty Murdaugh takes visitors on the first tour of the company’s new steel shipbuilding line. Photo by Mike Kittrell. In late April, Austal USA opened a steel manufacturing line right next door to the aluminum shipbuilding lines it has operated for more than 20 years. “In some ways…
Austal steels the ships
Mobile shipbuilder, long a provider of aluminum ships for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, opens second line to make steel vessels
