On January 31, family-owned Hendry Marine Industries appointed Richard McCreary as president of its Gulf Marine Repair shipyard in Tampa, Fla. The shipyard’s core business focuses on repair, conversion and modification of large ocean-going commercial vessels, tugs and barges, dredges, small ships, harbor tugs, and U.S. Coast Guard, MARAD, Corps and NOAA vessels. The yard, located on Ybor Ship Channel, sits on a 50-acre site and contains roughly 3,200-linear feet of bulkheaded waterfront frontage. The location has been used as a shipyard since the start of World War II. Read more …
