Shipyard Plan Doesn’t Jibe with Port’s Vision

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Deep inside the nation’s busiest seaport lurks the old Southwest Marine shipyard, a collection of rusting corrugated-metal buildings, broken windows and dark interiors that has appeared in more than a dozen films and television shows, including “Die Hard,” “24” and “CSI: Miami.”

But these days, the 38-acre site at the Port of Los Angeles is the setting for another kind of high-stakes drama, this time involving competing visions of the port’s future.

On one side is the defunct Southwest Marine shipyard’s last caretaker: Long Beach yacht builder Gambol Industries, which wants the right to turn the site back into a full-service shipyard with modern dry docks. On the other side is the Port of Los Angeles, union dockworkers and businesses. They want the old shipyard’s boat slips to store the toxic muck dredged to make the harbor deeper.



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