Steiner Construction Relocates To Larger Yard

摘要

Bayou La Batre, an active waterway just west of Alabama's Mobile Bay, has been home to Steiner Construction Company since 2003. Founded by Russell T. "Bub-ba" Steiner, the shipyard, over the past 19 years, has delivered new barges, towboats and fishing vessels, refurbished car ferries and passenger vessels, and more. And now the shipyard has moved to a new site just down the bayou that's three times the size of its original location. "We've got a new 24-acre facility," Steiner said. "It was a shipyard before, originally John E. Graham & Sons' yard." The yard offers 1,300 linear feet of water frontage, two production buildings (each with 10-ton overhead cranes), and a third building for painting and interior work. Horizon had the yard after Graham & Sons, and then it was part of MetalShark's Alabama operation. Steiner said he worked out an agreement to acquire the yard about a year ago in exchange for some property he owned that adjoins MetalShark's facility. Steiner said the new space has a lot of advantages, compared to his shipyard's original location.