About the Ship Building in Louisiana Market Research Report
What’s Included in the Ship Building in Louisiana Market Research Report
Definition of the Ship Building in Louisiana?
Shipbuilders operate shipyards, which are fixed facilities with dry docks and fabrication equipment capable of building a ship. A ship is defined as watercraft typically suitable or intended for use other than for personal or recreational purposes. Shipyard activities include ship construction, repair, conversion and alteration; the production of prefabricated ship and barge sections; and specialized services, such as ship scaling.
What’s included in the Ship Building in Louisiana?
The Ship Building in Louisiana includes building barges, building cargo ships, building passenger ships, building submarines, building drilling and production platforms, repairing ships, converting or altering ships, producing prefabrication ship and barge sections and building military ships. Related terms covered in the Ship Building in Louisiana industry report includes a narrow basin that a vessel floats in, and is then drained to enable the vessel to come to rest on a dry supported platform, a flat-bottomed boat that is built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods, a fixed facility with dry docks and fabrication equipment capable of building a ship, obligations mean binding agreements that will result in outlays and naval outlays are planned future payments, often in the form of contracts and financial plans.
Industry Performance of the Ship Building industry in Louisiana
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Ship Building in Louisiana
#6 in Highest Revenue 4.4% of state's GDPRevenue (2025)
Annual Growth (2020-25)
Annual Growth (2025-30)
Ship Building in the US
Revenue (2025)
Annual Growth (2020-25)
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Key Drivers of the Ship Building industry in Louisiana
See how key industry drivers, such as population, newly issued building permits, per capita disposable income, federal funding for defense, producer price index: steel and world price of aluminum are impacting Ship Building in Louisiana
Louisiana Economic Indicators
Population
Newly issued building permits
Per Capita Disposable Income
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US Key External Drivers
Federal funding for defense
Producer Price Index: Steel
World price of aluminum
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County Data of the Ship Building industry in Louisiana
Access proprietary data on county in the Ship Building in Louisiana, such as Jefferson Parish, Terrebonne Parish and St. Mary Parish. Data includes figures on revenue, establishments, employees and wages by counties.
Key Statistics of the Ship Building industry in Louisiana
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