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Bayou La Batre, an active waterway just west of Alabama's Mobile Bay, has been home to Steiner Construction Company since 2003. Founded by Russell T. "Bub-ba" Steiner, the shipyard, over the past 19 years, has delivered new barges, towboats and fishing vessels, refurbished car ferries and passenger vessels, and more. And now the shipyard has moved to a new site just down the bayou that's three times the size of its original location. "We've got a new 24-acre facility," Steiner said. "It was a shipyard before, originally John E. Graham & Sons' yard." The yard offers 1,300 linear feet of water frontage, two production buildings (each with 10-ton overhead cranes), and a third building for painting and interior work. Horizon had the yard after Graham & Sons, and then it was part of MetalShark's Alabama operation. Steiner said he worked out an agreement to acquire the yard about a year ago in exchange for some property he owned that adjoins MetalShark's facility. Steiner said the new space has a lot of advantages, compared to his shipyard's original location. |