Petters also said three Huntington Ingalls shipyards in Mississippi and Louisiana that had been shut down last week as Hurricane Isaac swept through the U.S. Gulf Coast region had resumed operations. He cited “minimal damage” to the facilities from the storm.
Shares of Huntington Ingalls rose 0.4 percent to $40.57 on Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange.
(Reporting By Karen Jacobs and Andrea Shalal-Esa; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)