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Bethlehem Sabine Shipyard, or Sabine Shipyard was a 223-acre shipyard of Bethlehem Steel in Port Arthur, Texas. The Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Sabine Shipyard opened in August 1985. The yard serviced offshore drilling rigs and ships. The Sabine Shipyard had a nation's largest

floating drydock A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform. Dry docks are used for the construction, maintenance, ...

. Bethlehem purchased the United States Navy surplus drydock,

USS ABSD-5 USS ABSD-5, later redesignated as AFDB-5, was a nine-section, non-self-propelled, large auxiliary floating drydock of the US Navy. Advance Base Sectional Dock-5 (Auxiliary Floating Dock Big-5) was constructed in sections during 1943 and 1944 by ...

that was at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. USS ABSD-5 seven-sections were tugged to the Sabine Yard arriving in December 1984. USS ABSD-5 has a lift capacity of 64,000 tons.Building the Navy's Bases in World War II, History of the Bureau of Yards and Docks and the Civil Engineer Corps 1940-1946 Chapter IX, Floating Drydocks
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/ref> In 1995 the Bethlehem Sabine Shipyard was sold to Texas Drydock Inc. Texas Drydock Inc headquarters is in Gulfport, Mississippi. In 2005

Sembcorp Marine Sembcorp Marine Limited an Singaporean company. It is listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). It was a subsidiary of Sembcorp until 2020, when the companies demerged following Sembcorp Marine's poor financial performance. Sembcorp Marine's pr ...

of Singapore purchased the Sabine yard, renaming the yard SembCorp-Sabine Shipyard. Sembcorp saw the demand for rig repair after damage done by

hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina was a destructive Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused over 1,800 fatalities and $125 billion in damage in late August 2005, especially in the city of New Orleans and the surrounding areas. It was at the time the cost ...

. SembCorp has yards in Singapore,

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

and Brazil.SembCorp buys Sabine yard, September 2005, Jim Mulrenan
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