A day after announcing it had secured a Navy contract worth more than $700 million, Pascagoula’s Ingalls Shipbuilding announced it would be adding some 3,000 full-time jobs.
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By Jack Wittels (Bloomberg)
John Kerry wants to accelerate the decarbonization of the global shipping industry which spews more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year than France and the U.K. combined.
The U.S. climate envoy said back in April that he wants international shipping’s emissions to drop to zero by 2050, a much sharper cut than the industry’s current target. The U.S. will work with other countries at the International Maritime Organization, which regulates global shipping, to “adopt ambitious measures that’ll place the entire sector on a pathway to achieve this goal,” he said.
(Photo: Derek Fountain / HII)
America s largest military shipbuilding group Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) said its Ingalls Shipbuilding division plans to hire approximately 3,000 full-time shipbuilders.
Ingalls’ talent acquisition team has been recruiting across Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, and will return to Pascagoula on June 10 to host a hiring event at Ingalls’ new human resources building. The company is hiring ship fitters, electricians, pipefitters, pipe welders and structural welders and seeking applicants with mechanical, hot work or carpentry experience.
“We are steadily adding new team members to our growing workforce,” Ingalls Shipbuilding president Kari Wilkinson said. “Shipbuilding is a challenging, extremely rewarding and potentially life-changing career, and we are excited to offer so many full-time, stable, full-benefits opportunities to our community.”
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International Council on Clean Transport (ICCT) uses pre-pandemic data on shipping movements to project where and by how much scrubber washwater deposits will be made. It assumes
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