NAICS 336611 · Manufacturing
Ship Building and Repairing: Business Name Ideas
48 name ideas, the official industry definition, and 489 U.S. business locations broken down by state.
What this industry covers
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating shipyards. Shipyards are fixed facilities with drydocks and fabrication equipment capable of building a ship, defined as watercraft typically suitable or intended for other than personal or recreational use. Activities of shipyards include the construction of ships, their repair, conversion and alteration, the production of prefabricated ship and barge sections, and specialized services, such as ship scaling.
Businesses classified here include
- Barge building
- Cargo ship building
- Container ship building
- Dredge building
- Drilling and production platforms, floating, oil and gas, building
- Drydock, floating, building
- Ferryboat building
- Fireboat building
- Fishing boat, commercial, building
- Hydrofoil vessel building and repairing in shipyard
- Naval ship building
- Oil and gas offshore floating platforms manufacturing
- Passenger ship building
- Patrol boat building
- Sailing ships, commercial, manufacturing
- Ship dismantling at shipyards
- Ship repair done in a shipyard
- Ship scaling services done at a shipyard
- Ships (i.e., not suitable or intended for personal use) manufacturing
- Shipyard (i.e., facility capable of building ships)
- Submarine building
- Towboat building and repairing
- Tugboat building
- Underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) manufacturing in shipyards
- Unmanned and robotic watercraft manufacturing in shipyards
- Yachts built in shipyards
Definition and examples from the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 336611), U.S. Census Bureau.
Name ideas for ship building and repairing
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U.S. business numbers
Locations by number of employees nationwide
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022. Counts cover employer establishments (businesses with paid employees); self-employed owners without staff are not included. Small establishments with 1–4 employees include those that reported no paid employees in mid-March.
Top states for ship building and repairing
- Florida 64 locations
- Louisiana 60 locations
- California 49 locations
- Texas 47 locations
- Virginia 43 locations
- Washington 39 locations
- Alabama 21 locations
- Massachusetts 13 locations
- Oregon 13 locations
- Maine 11 locations
All 28 states
- Alabama (21)
- Alaska (7)
- California (49)
- Connecticut (4)
- Florida (64)
- Georgia (5)
- Hawaii (8)
- Illinois (5)
- Kentucky (4)
- Louisiana (60)
- Maine (11)
- Maryland (8)
- Massachusetts (13)
- Minnesota (3)
- Mississippi (9)
- Missouri (5)
- New Jersey (10)
- New York (10)
- North Carolina (5)
- Oregon (13)
- Pennsylvania (7)
- Rhode Island (8)
- South Carolina (5)
- Tennessee (4)
- Texas (47)
- Virginia (43)
- Washington (39)
- Wisconsin (10)