Avondale Boat Division, originally founded as Avondale Marine Ways in 1938 near New Orleans, is a historic shipbuilding company known for military and commercial vessel construction.
New Orleans, Louisiana, United StatesUpdated May 2026
Avondale Industries Inc. was a shipbuilding company based in New Orleans, United States, known for building barges, tugs, and cargo ships, and later becoming part of Northrop Grumman Ship Systems.
Pascagoula, Mississippi, United StatesUpdated Jul 2006
Northrop Grumman Ship Systems (NGSS), headquartered in Pascagoula, Mississippi, includes the Ingalls Operations and the Full Service Operations, also in Pascagoula, and the Avondale Operations, in New Orleans and Tallulah, Louisiana, and Gulfport, Mississippi. NGSS, which currently employs more than 17,000 shipbuilding professionals, primarily in Mississippi and Louisiana, is one of the nation's leading full service systems companies for the design, engineering, construction, and life cycle support of major surface ships for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard and international navies, and for commercial vessels of all types.