This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating shipyards or boat yards (i.e., ship or boat manufacturing facilities). 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. Boats are defined as watercraft typically suitable or intended for personal use. Activities of shipyards include the construction of ships, their repair, conversion and alteration, production of prefabricated ship and barge sections, and specialized services, such as ship scaling.

Illustrative Examples:

Barge building

Boat yards (i.e., boat manufacturing facilities)

Cargo ship building

Drilling and production platforms, floating, oil and gas, building

Passenger ship building

Inflatable plastic boats, heavy-duty, manufacturing

Inflatable rubber boats, heavy-duty, manufacturing

Rigid inflatable boats (RIBs) manufacturing

Boats (e.g., motorboats, rowboats, canoes, kayaks) manufacturing