USS Fitzgerald on its way to Pascagoula

The U.S. Navy has awarded an initial $63 million contract to Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula to repair a damaged destroyer.
The Navy on Friday announced the contract with Ingalls. The USS Fitzgerald was damaged in a June 17th collision with a container ship off Japan that killed seven sailors. Its hull was punctured twice more last month as it was loaded aboard a transport ship. The transport ship finally sailed for Pascagoula on December 9th.
The Navy says the contract covers initial rip-out of damaged areas. After that, Ingalls will modernize the Fitzgerald, which had been scheduled for an overhaul in 2019. The work is likely to cost hundreds of millions of dollars overall. The Navy chose Ingalls to do the work in August.