Business
Defense: U.S., in preliminary response, says deal, making firm the nation’s largest naval ship supplier, would leave too few such companies.
May 29, 1999
Despite last week’s good news at National Steel & Shipbuilding--a $290.9-million Navy contract with options that could elevate its worth to $1 billion--company officials will continue with plans to explore new revenue avenues besides shipbuilding.
Jan. 27, 1987
Real Estate
Named for its original owner, shipbuilder John Rados, the striking two-story surveys the Port of Los Angeles from its hillside vantage in Rancho Palos Verdes.
Feb. 7, 2019
The Shipbuilders Council of America, concerned about U.S. shipowners sending more vessels overseas for cheap upgrading, has sued to stop Oakland-based Matson Navigation Co. from using a Chinese shipyard.
Nov. 22, 2006
Litton Industries Inc. on Thursday tapped longtime TRW executive Ronald D.
June 23, 2000
Kvaerner, Europe’s largest shipbuilder, said it is pulling out of the business as part of a restructuring because of weak demand and shrinking profit.
April 14, 1999
Your article (Sept. 13) on the Navy choosing Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., a division of Litton Industries, rather than National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., to build three new helicopter landing ships, causing a layoff of 2,300 shipyard workers, is just another example of the Reagan Administration’s drive to lower the wages of West Coast shipyard workers.
Oct. 1, 1986
Defense: Firm makes offers totaling nearly $2 billion for Newport News and Avondale in challenge to General Dynamics.
May 7, 1999
Defense: Rumors are flying over how the Woodland Hills firm will respond to proposed takeovers involving all three of its competitors.
March 27, 1999
Fulfilling a campaign promise during a 1992 visit to the West Coast’s only remaining private shipyard, President Clinton on Tuesday announced $1 billion worth of federally guaranteed loans designed to revitalize the shrunken U.S. shipbuilding industry.
Aug. 3, 1994