North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 33661 is used by federal buyers for market research, set-aside size standards, and reporting. Official titles come from the Census Bureau NAICS structure.
Official definition
This industry 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.
Included activity examples
- Barge building
- Boat yards (i.e., boat manufacturing facilities)
- Boats (e.g., motorboats, rowboats, canoes, kayaks) manufacturing
- Cargo ship building
- Drilling and production platforms, floating, oil and gas, building
- Inflatable plastic boats, heavy-duty, manufacturing
- Inflatable rubber boats, heavy-duty, manufacturing
- Passenger ship building
- Rigid inflatable boats (RIBs) manufacturing
- Official title
- Ship and Boat Building
- Code level
- 5
- Parent industry
- Ship and Boat Building 3366
- Open opportunities
- 1 open · 3 active
Excluded or separately classified activities
Official Census cross-references identify activities that belong under another North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code.
Fabricating structural assemblies or components for ships, or subcontractors engaged in ship painting, joinery, carpentry work, and electrical wiring installation--are classified based on the production process used; and
Manufacturing inflatable plastic swimming pool rafts and similar flotation devices--are classified in Industry 32619, Other Plastics Product Manufacturing;
Manufacturing inflatable rubber swimming pool rafts and similar flotation devices--are classified in Industry 32629, Other Rubber Product Manufacturing;
Ship repairs performed in floating drydocks--are classified in Industry 48839, Other Support Activities for Water Transportation.
Source and edition
2022 NAICS Manual definition and reference material from the U.S. Census Bureau.