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Gulf Coast Shipyards Growing Capacity While Navy Shipbuilding Plans Remain Unsettled
PASCAGOULA, Miss. — From the fantail of the 24,000-ton Richard M. McCool, Jr., (LPD-29), one can see the world’s most complex warships coming together, with shipbuilders welding, painting and running cables in the Mississippi sun.…