The US Navy has awarded a contract to General Dynamics to work on the Navy’s mobile landing platform programme.

The MLP is a 34,544mt displacement carrier for landing craft air cushion (LCAC) that also serves as a staging position for performing some of the assembly of forces.

The 250m-long ship would be a troop carrier capable of carrying 1,112 marines along with their equipment before being transported ashore on LCACs or via aviation assets.

The ships can cruise at a maximum speed of about 20 knots.

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Work under the $7m contract will be carried out at National Steel and Shipbuilding in San Diego and several other locations across the US and is expected to be complete by May 2010.

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The contract has been awarded by the US Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, DC.