The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded Bollinger Shipyards LLC four additional 154’x25′ Sentinel-Class Fast Response Cutters (FRC). This announcement brings the total number of FRCs awarded to Bollinger up to 60 vessels since the program’s inception. The Coast Guard’s Program of Record is to procure 64 FRCs.
The FRCs are consistently being deployed in support of the full range of missions within the Coast Guard and other branches of our armed services. FRCs have conducted operations as far as the...
Fincantieri Marinette Marine was awarded the nearly $800 million contract to build the first-in-class guided missile frigate for the U.S. Navy, with an option for nine additional ships. (No specifications of the frigate were released.)
The award was announced by the Department of Defense following competition among several other major U.S. shipyards. The contract offers FMM the option to build and deliver up to 10 ships, as well as post-delivery availability support, engineering and class...
https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/marinette-marine-wins-navy-frigate-contract/
VT Halter Marine Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., has been awarded a contract option for the U.S. Navy’s fourth 82 meters (269′)x20.95 meters (68.7′) Auxiliary Personnel Lighter–Small (APL(S)) 67 Class berthing and messing barge. The contract award is $39.9 million for a firm, fixed-price option for the detail design and construction of the vessel. VT Halter is a company of ST Engineering North America.
The shipyard is currently constructing the first three APLs. In September 2018, the company received...
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Ribcraft, Marblehead, Mass., a manufacturer of rigid inflatable boats (RIBs) for law enforcement, safety professionals, and military agencies, announced that the U.S. Navy has awarded a five-year indefinite quantity contract to the company to provide the 11-meter RIBs.
Under the contract, Ribcraft will build and deliver the Expeditionary Mine Counter Measure Boat. The boatbuilder has also been providing the Navy with 7-meter (23′) shipboard RIBs since 2014.
The new RIBs will serve to support...
https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/ribcraft-wins-contract-to-supply-39-ribs-to-navy/
Crowley Maritime Corp., Jacksonville, Fla., and subsidiary Jensen Maritime, the company’s Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering firm, were honored with the 2019 Significant Boat of the Year Award during the International Workboat Show in New Orleans last week. The award recognizes the company’s industry-leading combination container/roll on-roll off (ConRo) ships, MV El Coquí and MV Taíno, the first of their kind powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG). Workboat’s recognition...
Moose Boats, Vallejo, Calif., was awarded a contract from the City of Rochester, N.Y. Fire Department for the construction of the first M2-38 Fire Rescue Catamaran to be delivered to the Great Lakes.
Main propulsion for the aluminum boats will come from twin Cumminsdiesel engines, producing 425 hp each, connected to HamiltonJet waterjets through Twin Disc transmissions.
The Rochester, New York Fire Department (RFD) has jurisdiction on the Genesee River and Lake Ontario. The Port of Rochester is...
Since committing to go global in September 2018, Harvey Gulf International Marine has now been awarded contracts in Mexico, Trinidad, Guyana and Suriname. In addition, the company has bids out for work in Mozambique, Angola, Senegal, Israel, Ghana and Nigeria.
Meanwhile, New Orleans-based Harvey Gulf is still committed to looking for merger opportunities as they present themselves. Harvey’s CEO and its management team over the past three years have produced more earnings before interest, taxes,...
https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/harvey-gulf-still-looking-for-partner-signs-new-contracts/
Within the Littoral Combat Ship program (LCS), the U.S. Navy has awarded the consortium consisting of Fincantieri, through its subsidiary Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM), and Lockheed Martin Corp., a contract to build an additional 387.6’x57.7′, 40-knot LCS.
The new LCS 31, with a draft of 14.1′, will be the 16th ship of the LCS program Freedom-variant, one of the Navy’s main shipbuilding programs. The Fincantieri and Lockheed Martin team is in full-rate production of the Freedom-variant and...
https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/navy-awards-another-lcs-marinette-marine/
After delivering three Independence-variant 421’6″x103.7′ Littoral Combat Ships this year, Austal USA was awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy today to build two additional LCSes for the Navy fleet — bringing the total to four LCSes awarded to Austal USA in 2018. The specific value of each contract is under the congressional cost cap of $584 million per ship.
With eight delivered, six under construction, and three awaiting start of construction, these two additional ships represent Austal USA’s...
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Mobile, Ala.-based Austal USA was awarded a contract modification by the Navy Tuesday to build two additional 421’6″x103.7′ Independence-variant littoral combat ships, its 16th and 17th ships in the class.
The award of LCS 32 and 34 is a clear sign of the continued confidence the Navy has in Austal’s LCS program, the shipyard said in a statement announcing the contract. The specific value of each contract is under the congressional cost cap of $584 million per ship.
“To be awarded these contracts...
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