In what it called a “significant project for both the maritime industry and our community,” Vigor Wednesday announced the recent launch of the first U.S. flagged liquefied gas carrier built in decades.
The Portland-based shipbuilder and fabrication company said it took 1,500 workers and nearly 1 million labor hours in the Northwest over the course of 23 months to complete the Harvest, a complex liquefied ammonia transport barge that measures 508 feet long and 96 feet wide.
“We’ve worked…