PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) — Officials say classes should be underway inside Ingalls Shipbuilding’s Haley Reeves Barbour Maritime Training Academy by the end of summer.
President Irwin Edenzon tells The Mississippi Press (http://bit.ly/18bxuOW ) the academy, funded through a Hurricane Katrina community development block grant, is meant to provide a skilled workforce and will help Ingalls expand its 2- to 4-year apprentice program to about 1,000 students.
In December 2011, Mobile-based Ben M. Radcliff Contractor Inc. was awarded a $15.6 million contract to construct the facility.
It should be complete by August.
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Information from: The Mississippi Press, http://www.gulflive.com
