By Troy Turner
Alabama Shipyard LLC, Mobile, earned a nearly $12.5 million contract with the Navy for shipyard availability and scheduled maintenance on the Military Sealift Command’s fleet replenishment oiler USNS Laramie.
The contract is similar to previous contracts Alabama Shipyard has garnered from the Department of Defense and Navy to work on the Laramie in recent years, and the company was selected for similar drydock work in 2023 on another Navy replenishment oiler, the USNS John Lenthall.
Alabama Shipyard has worked with the DOD on several Navy contracts in recent years, including a $20 million award in 2023 to service the USNS Comfort, one of the Navy’s two primary hospital ships; the other being its sister ship USNS Mercy.
The latest contract calls for a 75-day calendar shipyard availability for work performed in Mobile beginning Aug. 26, 2025, and is expected to be completed by Nov. 8, 2025.
Military Sealift Command, Norfolk, Virginia, is the contracting agency.
The USNS Laramie went into Navy service on May 7, 1996, and has a load capacity of 159,000 barrels of fuel oil or aviation fuel.
The ship was built by Avondale Shipyards, Inc., New Orleans. It has a helicopter deck, and it normally carries a crew of nearly 100 that includes civilians and Navy.
Troy Turner is the editor and senior consultant for AlaDefense.com and can be contacted at [email protected].
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