Business
A management-led group at San Diego-based National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. is negotiating to buy the financially troubled company from Boise, Idaho-based Morrison-Knudsen, Nassco Vice President Fred C.
Nov. 17, 1988
If privately-owned shipyards are measured by the number and size of the contracts that they get from the Navy, then the National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. is lagging far behind its major competitors.
Aug. 15, 1988
World & Nation
There were dogs sniffing for drugs on the docks at National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. on Tuesday.
June 11, 1986
The local head of a U.S. safety agency Friday disputed claims by the National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. that agency officials rejected a request by the company that its representatives join federal inspectors on a thorough safety review of the shipyard, thereby delaying the inspection.
Jan. 9, 1988
Longtime National Steel & Shipbuilding executive C.
Oct. 1, 1985
The U.S. government has ended up as the unlikely defendant in a lawsuit resulting from a 1989 crane accident at the privately owned National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. that seriously injured a shipyard employee.
April 25, 1990
National Steel & Shipbuilding has won a $34-million contract from the Naval Sea Systems Command to overhaul the guided-missile cruiser Fox.
May 10, 1989
Blaming cost overruns on Navy repair contracts at its San Diego shipyard, National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. expects to report a pretax operating loss that could reach $20 million for the second quarter ending June 30, according to Boise, Ida.
June 24, 1988
Negotiators for 2,700 striking National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. union members have signed a tentative agreement with shipyard management that would put employees back to work Monday while a final resolution of the 3-week-old labor dispute is worked out.
Oct. 24, 1992
U.S. officials have once again cited the troubled National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. for allegedly failing to comply with federal safety standards, charging Nassco on Tuesday with three “willful violations” and proposing an additional $30,000 in fines.
June 30, 1988