Company Overview
Facilities General
Bath Iron Works (BIW) is located in the northeastern United States on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine.  In addition, BIW supports the US Navy through its off-site offices.
Maine Shipyard

machine operatorFacilities at the main plant include a 750-foot drydock, three shipways, three wharves, an outfitting pier, four level-luffing cranes, and covered facilities for pre-outfit and assembly.  Also located within the facilities in Maine are engineering, design, ship support, and administrative offices.  The shipyard has two principal structural assembly buildings. The larger building has 15,600 square meters of interior area and houses the Panel Line and 15 Unit Assembly workstations. The smaller building contains 3,780 square meters and 7 workstations. The Pre-Outfit Building (8,450 square meters) has 16 workstations and is used for installation of distributive systems and operating machinery after the structural Units are grit-blasted and painted.

Assembly Builder WelderThe shipyard has two separate facility configurations that support the ship assembly (unit erection) and launching process. Both configurations consist of three shipways that can be used for either military or commercial ship construction. Three new level-land shipways are the centerpiece of the Land-Level Transfer Facility (LLTF); all three shipways can accommodate ships of 243 meters in length and a maximum beam of 32 meters. The LLTF building positions are serviced by two, track-mounted, 300-ton level-luffing crane and one, track-mounted, 100-ton level-luffing crane. Operating on an inter-connected rail system grid, all three cranes can be positioned to service any of the three shipways. DDG 92 Bow almost afloat, June 28 2003 When ready for launching, ships are translated onto a 28,000-ton lift-capacity floating dry dock, using a purpose-built TTS electro-hydraulic transfer system. Outfit Piers #3 and #4, which are adjacent to the LLTF, are serviced track-mounted live-boom cranes; one 90-ton and one 60-ton. In addition to the Land-Level Transfer Facility , the shipyard has three inclined ways serviced by a 220-metric ton, track-mounted, level-luffing crane.

BIW also operates two manufacturing operations work sites that are not contiguous to the main shipyard property. One is a structural steel fabrication facility (the Hardings Plant) and the other consists of a climate controlled Consolidated Warehouse facility and an automated pipe and sheet metal facility which include computer-aided manufacturing capability for steel, pipe and ventilation (the East Brunswick Manufacturing Facility).

Off-site Offices
Bath Iron Works provides modernization, maintenance, and operational support to the US Navy Fleet through its offices located in Homeports for DDG 51 and FFG 7 Class ships.  These Homeport offices are located at Norfolk, Virginia; Mayport, Florida; Pascagoula, Mississippi; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; San Diego, California; and Yokosuka, Japan. 

 
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