Workboat Show Daily
Parker Conrad is a legend in South Louisiana and a pioneer in the shipbuilding industry. In October, he turned 100.
From humble beginnings of building wooden shrimp boats to increasingly larger and more powerful vessels, Parker Conrad put his stamp of integrity, craftsmanship and quality on every vessel delivered. Through the years, Parker’s reputation for on- time and on-budget delivery, for innovative engineering solutions, and for a tight focus on customer service continued to grow. The company was founded in 1948 by Parker Conrad, and began operations at our shipyard in Morgan City, La. By the early 1990s the shipyard was a recognized leader throughout the Gulf Coast.
Today, Conrad Shipyard has five modern and expansive shipyards, purpose-designed for ship manufacturing efficiency, equipped with computer-aided ship manufacturing technology, and staffed by the industry’s most experienced shipbuilding professionals.
Today, with a new generation at the helm, the ships built, repaired and converted by Conrad Shipyard are bigger and more complex than ever before. Each, however, bears the standards set in stone by our founder: quality, craftsmanship, integrity and service.
The result is many long-term and valued customer relationships and a broad portfolio of a wide variety of quality-built vessels. The lessons of our founder have served us well.