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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Ronald D White, Full Steam Ahead for Nassco Shipyard in San Diego; The last
major shipyard on the West Coast has outlasted the competition by making
sure that every new vessel has been built better, faster, cheaper and with
fewer injuries than the one that came before, says its president, Frederick
J. Harris. Los Angeles Times, July 3, 2011.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-made-in
-california-shipyard-20110703,0,4193256.story
Quote:
"'In five years, we have reduced the amount of labor required to build these
ships by more than 60%. We'll complete construction on the last one [T-AKE-
14] in less than half the time it took to build the first [T-AKE-1],' Harris
said. Among manufacturers, he added, 'we have the best learning curve in
the U.S.'
"But other traditions have been discarded, perhaps forever, such as the old
style of building ships in one piece, surrounded by scaffolding. Now, Nassco
's yard resembles a giant Lego construction project, with most of the work
occurring on the ground and not on the ship. To build a T-AKE ship, a few
hundred parts are put together into sub-assemblies weighing up to 35 tons.
Sub-assemblies are then combined into blocks of up to 150 tons. These are
eventually pieced together into grand blocks that can weigh more than 600
tons, Dodd said.
Note:
(a)
(i) Lewis and Clark class dry cargo ship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_class_dry_cargo_sh
(The first of the planned fourteen ships, USNS Lewis and Clark (T-AKE-1),
was placed in service with the MSC in June 2006; BUILDER General Dynamics
National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO))
* National Steel and Shipbuilding Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Steel_and_Shipbuilding_Co
(NASSCO; a shipyard in San Diego, California, and a division of General
Dynamics; since 1959)
(ii)T-AKE stands for "Auxiliary Cargo (K) and Ammunition (E) Ship, MSC
Manned." What is T then?
Military Sealift Command
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Sealift_Command
("Their hull numbers have the prefix T- in addition to the normal hull
number that an equivalent commissioned ship in the USN would have")
(b) San Pedro, Los Angeles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Pedro,_Los_Angeles
(a port district of the city of Los Angeles; annexed in 1909)
(c) scuff (vt; origin unknown): "to scratch, gouge, or wear away the surface
of"
(d) gantry crane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantry_crane
The video that accompanied the report, from 28 to 34 seconds, showed how a
gantry crane operated.
(e) Do not forget to see the photo gallery.
(i) Medgar Evers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers
(1925-1963; civil rights activist; his murder was depicted in the 1988 film
Mississippi Burning)
(ii) César Cháve-z
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Ch%C3%A1vez
(1927-1993; farm activist) |
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