Company has contract for two ships, expect to expand workforce....
A company expecting at its peak to bring more than 100 jobs to Vallejo with the reopening of the Mare Island
The retired steam freighter SS Solon Turman will be towed from the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet off Benicia 's shores about 8 a.m., weather permitting, for a six-mile final journey to Mare Island
Allied Defense Recycling received a $1.5 million contract to dismantle the Solon Turman, and another $1.6 million for the SS President, which is due to arrive next month. The Mothball Fleet's keepers, the U.S. Maritime Administration, awarded the no-bid contracts to Allied Defense Recycling in November.
The company has employed 15 workers for the past month, and will increase its force as needed, to 100 to 120 workers, when the shipyard is fully operational, said Jay Anast, Allied Defense Recycling's director of business operations.
A viewing area on Mare Island
The company, also doing business as California Dry Dock Solutions, is the first Maritime Administration-approved ship dismantling facility using dry docks to contain its work, according to a release from the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the only one on the West Coast.
The 50-year-old Solon Turman, named for a Maryland ship company founder's son-in-law, has been anchored in Suisun Bay San Francisco
http://www.drawer.com/drydock.php Watch as the SS Solon Turman is brought into Dry Dock on Mare Island
Watch as it happens!!!
Source: (Vallejo
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