A brand-new 950-foot-long, 55,000-long-ton drifting completely dry dock got to BAE Systems’ San Diego shipyard today, component of the business’s $100 million financial investment in the lawn to service the awaited boost of united state Navy ships on the West Coast.

The brand-new drifting completely dry dock got to the business’s shipyard Thursday hauled by the ocean-going as well as salvage pullPosh Terasea Eagle Over the following 2 months, the BAE Systems group will certainly finish last setting up, installment, screening, as well as accreditation of the completely dry dock, which will certainly be functional in very early 2017.

The very first ship to be serviced in the completely dry dock will certainly be the San Diego- homeported aquatic transportation dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18).

While the brand-new completely dry dock could be the biggest in California, the title for the biggest completely dry dock on the West Coast, as well as the whole United States for that issue, really comes from Vigor’s 96-foot-long, 85,000-long-ton “Vigorous” in Portland, Oregon.