About the Ship Building in Rhode Island Market Research Report
What’s Included in the Ship Building in Rhode Island Market Research Report
Definition of the Ship Building in Rhode Island?
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 Rhode Island?
The Ship Building in Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island
Benchmark the Ship Building in Rhode Island industry performance with all RI county and national performance.
Ship Building in Rhode Island
#23 in Highest Revenue 0.2% of state's GDPRevenue (2025)
Annual Growth (2020-25)
Annual Growth (2025-30)
Ship Building in the US
Revenue (2025)
Annual Growth (2020-25)
Annual Growth (2025-30)
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Key Drivers of the Ship Building industry in Rhode Island
See how key industry drivers, such as population, gross state product, new business formation, federal funding for defense, producer price index: steel and world price of aluminum are impacting Ship Building in Rhode Island
Rhode Island Economic Indicators
Population
Gross State Product
New Business Formation
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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 Rhode Island
Access proprietary data on county in the Ship Building in Rhode Island, such as Newport County, Providence County and Kent County. Data includes figures on revenue, establishments, employees and wages by counties.
Key Statistics of the Ship Building industry in Rhode Island
Download 18 years of historical data and 5 years of projected performance.
