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FirstWave/Newpark Shipbuilding is the largest shipyard operator in the Houston/Galveston area and a leading provider of shipyard services on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The company provides repair, conversion, new construction, and related services for barges, boats, ships, offshore rigs, and other vessels in the offshore and inland marine industries.
FirstWave/Newpark Shipbuilding operates a network of six yards, three in the Houston Ship Channel area and three in the Galveston area. The proximity and complementary capabilities of these yards make them mutually supporting.
The company's Galveston Division is headquartered at the East Pelican Island Facility. This yard is ideally located and configured for mobile offshore rig and drillship repairs and conversions. A 7,500 ton drydock located here accomodates OSVs, small ships, barges and other vessels.
With more than twenty haul-out facilities (consisting of drydocks and marine railways), FirstWave/Newpark Shipbuilding's Houston Division can handle large volumes and a wide variety of shipyard work.
The company is also well equipped to provide fabricated products and services, with 280,000 sq ft of manufacturing space under roof and crane capacity up to 500 tons at the West Pelican Island Facility in Galveston.
An environmental services division in Houston offers gas-freeing services to its shipyard customers as well as non-hazardous wastewater treatment and other environmental services to a variety of industrial customers.
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