Editing Mobile, Alabama (section)

===Major industry===
[[File:US Navy 110908-O-ZZ999-003 The Military Sealift Command joint high speed vessel USNS Spearhead (JHSV 1) prepares for its Sept. 17 christening cerem.jpg|thumb|The {{USNS|Spearhead|JHSV-1}}, another Austal USA-built ship, being prepared for its christening in the [[BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards]] floating drydock in September 2011. The ''Spearhead'' is the first ship of the [[Spearhead class Joint High Speed Vessel|''Spearhead'' class Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV)]].]]
[[File:Airbus Mobile Engineering Center.jpg|thumb|Airbus Mobile Engineering Center at the Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile]]

====Port of Mobile====
Mobile's [[Port of Mobile|Alabama State Docks]] underwent the largest expansion in its history in the early 21st century. It expanded its container processing and storage facility and increased container storage at the docks by over 1,000% at a cost of over $300 million, a project completed in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alabama Senate Approves Port Funding – Alabama State Port Authority Poised To Let New Container Terminal Contracts |work=Alabama State Port Authority |date=May 17, 2005 |url=http://www.asdd.com/Asd/news47.htm |access-date=May 5, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927005038/http://www.asdd.com/Asd/news47.htm |archive-date=September 27, 2007}}</ref> Despite the expansion of its container capabilities and the addition of two massive new cranes, the port went from 9th largest to the 12th largest by tonnage in the nation from 2008 to 2010.<ref name="port"/><ref name="ports2">{{cite web|title=Waterborne Commerce Statistics: Calendar Year 2008 |work=United States Army Corps of Engineers |url=http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/ndc/wcsc/pdf/wcusnatl08.pdf |access-date=March 8, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100807030743/http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/ndc/wcsc/pdf/wcusnatl08.pdf |archive-date=August 7, 2010}}</ref>

====Shipyards====
Shipbuilding began to make a major comeback in Mobile in 1999 with the founding of [[Austal USA]].<ref name="colton1">{{cite web |title=Austal USA, Mobile AL Construction Record |work=The Colton Company |url=http://www.coltoncompany.com/shipbldg/ussbldrs/postwwii/shipyards/active/aluminum/austal.htm |access-date=November 2, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017213332/http://coltoncompany.com/shipbldg/ussbldrs/postwwii/shipyards/active/aluminum/austal.htm |archive-date=October 17, 2007}}</ref> A subsidiary of the Australian company [[Austal]], it expanded its production facility for United States defense and commercial aluminum shipbuilding on [[Blakeley Island (Alabama)|Blakeley Island]] in 2005.<ref name="austal">{{cite web |title=New Shipbuilding Facility |work=Austal USA |url=http://www.austal.com/index.cfm?objectid=B0B75979-65BF-EBC1-2349C7A56C359198 |access-date=October 19, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070830183927/http://www.austal.com/index.cfm?objectid=B0B75979-65BF-EBC1-2349C7A56C359198 |archive-date=August 30, 2007 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Austal announced in October 2012, after winning a new defense contract and completing another {{convert|30000|sqft|sqm|adj=on}} building within their complex on the island, that it would expand its workforce from 3,000 to 4,500 employees.<ref name="austal2012">{{cite news |title=Austal unveils new Navy building at Pinto Island shipyard |first=Ellen |last=Mitchell |url=https://www.al.com/press-register-business/2012/10/austal_unveils_new_navy_buildi.html |newspaper=Press Register |date=October 19, 2012 |access-date=December 4, 2021}}</ref>

[[Atlantic Marine]] operated a major shipyard at the former Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company site on [[Pinto Island]]. It was acquired by British defense conglomerate [[BAE Systems]] in May 2010 for $352 million. Doing business as [[BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards]], the company continues to operate the site as a full-service shipyard, employing approximately 600 workers with plans to expand.<ref name=bizjournal/><ref name="us2010">{{cite news |title=BAE prepares to streamline US business |first=Carola |last=Hoyos |newspaper=The Financial Times |date=September 11, 2010 |location=London}}</ref><ref name=bae1>{{cite web |url=http://www.baesystems.com/product/BAES_021153/bae-systems-ship-repair |publisher=BAE Systems |title=BAE Systems Ship Repair |access-date=July 16, 2012}}</ref>

====Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley====
The [[Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley]] is an industrial complex and airport located {{convert|3|mi|km|0}} south of the central business district of the city. It is the largest industrial and transportation complex in the region, having more than 70 companies, many of which are [[aerospace]], spread over {{convert|1650|acre|0|abbr=on}}.<ref name="overview">{{cite web |title=Overview |work=Brookley Aeroplex |url=http://www.brookleyaeroplex.com/aeroplex.php |access-date=June 30, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130102064612/http://www.brookleyaeroplex.com/aeroplex.php |archive-date=January 2, 2013 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Notable employers at Brookley include [[Airbus]] North America Engineering ([[EADS North America|Airbus Military North America]]'s facilities are at the Mobile Regional Airport), [[VT Mobile Aerospace Engineering]] (a division of [[ST Engineering]]), and [[Continental Motors, Inc.|Continental Motors]].<ref name="tenants">{{cite web |title=Tenants |work=Brookley Aeroplex |url=http://www.brookleyaeroplex.com/pdfs/tenants.pdf |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20120904062251/http://www.brookleyaeroplex.com/pdfs/tenants.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 4, 2012 |access-date=June 30, 2012 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Plans for an [[Airbus A320 family]] aircraft assembly plant in Mobile were formally announced by [[Airbus]] CEO [[Fabrice Brégier]] from the Mobile Convention Center on July 2, 2012. The plans include a $600 million factory at the Brookley Aeroplex for the assembly of the A319, A320 and A321 aircraft. It was planned to employ up roughly 1,000 full-time workers when fully operational. Construction began with a groundbreaking ceremony on April 8, 2013, with it becoming operable by 2015 and producing up to 50 aircraft per year by 2017.<ref name="apconfirm">{{cite news |title=Airbus to Build 1st US Assembly Plant in Alabama |agency=Associated Press |author=Melissa Nelson-Gabriel |date=July 2, 2012 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/officials-ala-airbus-plant-employ-1000-16690789#.T_HRzJHhcqN |access-date=July 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120703090843/https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/officials-ala-airbus-plant-employ-1000-16690789#.T_HRzJHhcqN |archive-date=July 3, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="bbcconfirm">{{cite news |title=Airbus confirms its first US factory to build A320 jet |work=BBC News |date=July 2, 2012 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18675711 |access-date=July 2, 2012}}</ref> The assembly plant is the company's first factory to be built within the United States.<ref>{{cite news |title=EADS to Build United States Assembly Line for Airbus A320 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/business/global/eads-to-build-airbus-assembly-line-in-mobile-ala.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=July 2, 2012 |author=Nicola Clark|date=July 2, 2012}}</ref> It was announced on February 1, 2013, that Airbus had hired Alabama-based [[Hoar Construction]] to oversee construction of the facility.<ref name=airbusasby>{{cite web |title=Airbus Appoints Program Manager for its Mobile Assembly Line |url=http://www.airbus.com/newsevents/news-events-single/detail/airbus-appoints-program-manager-for-its-mobile-assembly-line/ |publisher=Airbus |access-date=February 7, 2013 |archive-date=February 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130206110927/http://www.airbus.com/newsevents/news-events-single/detail/airbus-appoints-program-manager-for-its-mobile-assembly-line/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>
The factory officially opened on September 14, 2015, covering one million square feet on 53 acres of flat grassland.<ref>{{cite news|author1=Arielle Emmett|title=Airbus Lands In Alabama|url=http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/airbus-in-mobile-180959124/|access-date=March 18, 2017|publisher=Air & Space Smithsonian|date=June 2016}}</ref>

On October 16, 2017, Airbus announced a partnership with [[Bombardier Aerospace]], taking over a majority share of the [[Bombardier CSeries]] airliner program. As a result of this partnership, Airbus plans to open an assembly line for CSeries aircraft in Mobile, particularly to serve the US market. This effort may allow the companies to circumvent high import tariffs on the CSeries family.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-16/airbus-to-buy-majority-stake-in-bombardier-c-series-jet-program|title=Airbus Snaps Up Bombardier Jet in New Challenge to Boeing|work=Bloomberg.com|date=October 17, 2017|access-date=November 7, 2017}}</ref> The aircraft was renamed the Airbus A220 on July 10, 2018.<ref>{{Cite press release |url= https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2018/07/airbus-introduces-the-a220-100-and-a220-300.html |title= Airbus introduces the A220-100 and A220-300 |date=July 10, 2018 |publisher= Airbus}}</ref> Production started in August 2019; the first A220 from the new line is due to be delivered to Delta in the third quarter of 2020.<ref name=Airbus20190805>{{cite press release |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Airbus begins U.S. production of A220 aircraft |url=https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2019/08/airbus-begins-us-production-of-a220-aircraft.html |publisher=Airbus |date=August 5, 2019 |access-date=August 6, 2019}}</ref>

====ThyssenKrupp====
German technology conglomerate [[ThyssenKrupp]] broke ground on a $4.65 billion combined [[stainless steel|stainless]] and [[carbon steel]] processing facility in Calvert, a few miles north of Mobile, in 2007. Original projections promised eventual employment for 2,700 people. The facility became operational in July 2010.<ref name="thyssenkrupp">{{cite web |url=http://www.thyssenkruppnewusplant.com/ |title=ThyssenKrupp Steel and Stainless USA |access-date=July 24, 2010 |publisher=ThyssenKrupp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101011074127/http://thyssenkruppnewusplant.com/ |archive-date=October 11, 2010 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Cloos |first1=Paul |title=Mobile County wins ThyssenKrupp plant |url=https://www.al.com/live/2007/05/mobile_county_wins_thyssenkrup.html|work=Press-Register|publisher=al |access-date=December 4, 2021 |date=May 11, 2007}}</ref>

The company put both its carbon mill in Calvert and a steel slab-making unit in [[Rio de Janeiro]] up for sale in May 2012, citing rising production costs and a worldwide decrease in demand.<ref name="thyss1">{{cite news |title=ThyssenKrupp considers sale of steel mills in Mobile and Brazil (Update) |work=Press-Register |date=May 15, 2012 |url=https://www.al.com/live/2012/05/thyssenkrupp_considers_sale_of.html |access-date=December 5, 2021}}</ref> ThyssenKrupp's stainless steel division, Inoxum, including the stainless portion of the Calvert plant, was sold to Finnish stainless steel company [[Outokumpu|Outokumpu Oyi]] in 2012.<ref name="thyss2">{{cite news |title=New owners of ThyssenKrupp stainless steel division plan visit in June |work=Press-Register |date=May 31, 2012 |url=https://www.al.com/press-register-business/2012/05/new_owners_of_thyssenkrupp_sta.html |access-date=December 5, 2021}}</ref>