The Louisiana shipbuilder that operates Tampa Ship LLC at the Port of Tampa is considering Tampa, along with Houma, La., as a site to build an arctic icebreaker for Shell Oil. ...more

November 17, 2009

Ever wonder about the air your child breathes? One national newspaper is urging parents to look more closely outside the schoolhouse door. USA Today spent eight months examining the impact of industrial pollution on the air outside schools nationwide. Using a government model for tracking toxic chemicals, the newspaper ranked 127,800 public, private and parochial schools based on the concentrations of chemicals likely to be in the outside air. ...more

December 12, 2008

A man working on the deck of a freighter dry-docked in the Port of Tampa was seriously injured today when he fell 40 feet into the bowels of the vessel, Tampa Fire Rescue officials say. ...more

December 1, 2008

A highly regarded Louisiana shipbuilder is establishing an operation at the Port of Tampa, buying the Tampa Bay Shipbuilding & Repair Co.'s lease and retaining its 500 employees with plans to add workers and trades. ...more

November 19, 2008

A highly regarded Louisiana shipbuilder is establishing an operation at the Port of Tampa, buying the Tampa Bay Shipbuilding & Repair Co.'s lease and retaining its 500 employees with plans to add workers and additional trades. ...more

November 18, 2008

TAMPA The world's largest ship for laying pipe in deep water - a visitor to the Port of Tampa this month - will be leaving this week, according to the Tampa Bay Shipbuilding & Repair Co. The project, which required restructuring a dry dock to accommodate a vessel that's longer than two football fields, is one of the latest to benefit the port's three competing shipyards. ...more

January 31, 2008

A contractor in Mississippi has withdrawn a government application to allow up to 400 foreign workers to enter the United States to take welding jobs at Tampa's largest shipyard, an official with Florida's Agency for Workforce Innovation said Wednesday. ...more

October 18, 2007