U.S. West Coast ship recycling facility to open
The U.S. Transportation Department's Maritime Administrator David Matsuda, along with Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., and various other state and local officials, will welcome the West Coast's first ship recycling facility on Friday.
Allied Defense Recycling at the Mare Island DryDocks in Vallejo, Calif., is expected to bring more than 100 jobs to the community. The new facility will also increase overall domestic capacity for ship recycling and help hasten the cleanup of the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, MarAd said.
The new West Coast facility will eliminate the need to move obsolete MarAd ships from Suisun Bay through the Panama Canal to scrappers along the Gulf and East coasts.
U.S. West Coast ship recycling facility to open
