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Spending bill includes funding for four more fast cutters

Recently, President Trump signed into law the omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2021, which included funding for four more Sentinel-class fast response cutters (FRC). This will permit Bollinger Shipyards to build and deliver four more FRCs to the U.S. Coast Guard, increasing the total number of funded boats to 64.

“It’s a great honor to have the confidence of the U.S. Congress to continue the work we’re doing in support of the U.S. Coast Guard,” Bollinger Shipyards president and CEO Ben...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/spending-bill-includes-funding-for-four-more-frcs/

Bollinger Shipyards gets order for four more Fast Response Cutters

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...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/bollinger-shipyards-gets-order-for-four-more-fast-response-cutters/

Marinette Marine building four Multi-Mission Surface Combat ships for FMS program

The U.S. Navy awarded a Lockheed Martin-led team, which includes Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM), a multi-billion dollar order for the construction of four Multi-Mission Surface Combatants ships, as part of the country’s Foreign Military Sales program. These ships will be for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Fincantieri will build the ships at the Marinette yard in Wisconsin. The now-definitized contract has a total value of approximately $1.3 billion dollars (USD) for Fincantieri Marinette...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/marinette-marine-building-four-multi-mission-surface-combat-ships-for-fms-program/

Damen secures repeat order from BC Ferries

BC Ferries has awarded Damen Shipyards Group a repeat order of four additional Damen Road Ferries 8117 E3, also known as the “Island Class” vessels. The diesel-electric hybrid ferries follow two vessels that the client ordered from Damen back in 2017. The four new vessels will provide inter-island ferry services between Vancouver and Vancouver Island.

The Damen Road Ferry 8117 E3 is 81 meters in length (266′) with the capacity to carry 300 passengers and crew as well as a minimum of 47 cars. The...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/damen-secures-repeat-order-from-bc-ferries/

Miss River Commission schedules low-water inspection trip

The Mississippi River Commission will conduct its annual low-water inspection trip on the Mississippi River, Aug. 19-23, 2019.

Four public meetings have been scheduled aboard the towboat Mississippi in selected towns along the river. Commission members will meet with local partners, stakeholders and residents and hear their concerns, ideas and issues.

The meeting dates, times and locations are as follows:

• Aug. 19 — 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Caruthersville, Mo. (City Front)

• Aug. 20 — 9:00 a.m. –...

https://www.workboat.com/news/coastal-inland-waterways/miss-river-commission-schedules-low-water-inspection-trip/

St. Johns building four new passenger/vehicle ferries

Internet, music and satellite TV will all be available aboard the new ferries. St. Johns Ship Building photo

St. Johns Ship Building, Palatka, Fla., is building four new 152’x52’x12′ 150-passenger, 30-vehicle ferries for an unnamed owner. Designed by Seattle-based Elliott Bay Design Group, the new boats, featuring 8′ drafts, will also be able to handle concrete trucks and will be delivered over the next two years.

Each of the ferries will spotlight three lounges — two separate lounges on the main deck — one for residents and one for employees and a lounge on the second deck for residents. Internet,...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/st-johns-building-four-new-passenger-vehicle-ferries/

Metal Shark delivers new patrol boats to Aruba

The vessels were commissioned into service with a ceremony on Jan. 23 at DCCG’s Station Aruba in the district of Savaneta on Aruba’s southeast coast. Metal Shark photo

Four new high-speed patrol boats built by Metal Shark have entered service with the Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard (DCCG) on the island of Aruba.

The vessels officially went into service after a ceremony on Jan. 23 at DCCG’s Station Aruba.

Designed in-house by Metal Shark and built at the company’s Jeanerette, La., production facility, the new 38′ Defiant-class welded aluminum monohull patrol boats are powered by twin Cummins Marine QSB6.7 diesel engines coupled with counter-rotating dual-prop stern...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/metal-shark-delivers-patrol-boats-dutch-caribbean-coast-guard-2/

Nichols Brothers building Foss tugs to Jensen design

Jensen Maritime Consultants completed a design for four new tractor tugs for Foss Maritime. Crowley Maritime rendering

Crowley Maritime Corp.’s Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering company, Jensen Maritime Consultants, has provided the detailed design for an initial four, with an option for six additional, Tier IV tractor tugboats being built by Nichols Brothers Boat Builders for Foss Maritime.

The 90-short ton bollard pull tugs are based on Jensen’s Valor tugboat design, of which nine have been successfully built and deployed to date and an additional five remain under design/construction....

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/nichols-brothers-building-tugs-jensen-design/

Nichols Brothers building four new tractor tugs for Foss

The contract is for four new tugs with an option to build as many as six more. Nichols Brothers Boat Builders photo.

Nichols Brothers Boat Builders (NBBB), Freeland, Wash., is building four new 90-ton bollard pull tractor tugs for Foss Maritime, Seattle. The contract has an option for six additional tugs and marks the first agreement between the two companies.

Foss has selected a design by Jensen Maritime Consultants, Seattle. The 100’x 40′ Z-drive tractor tugs will be built to Coast Guard Subchapter M regulatory standards, with ABS loadline certification, and UWILD notation.

Main propulsion will come from two...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/nichols-brothers-building-four-new-tractor-tugs-foss/

Halter awarded Navy APL construction contract

New berthing barges for the Navy are scheduled for delivery by third quarter 2020. U.S. Navy photo

VT Halter Marine Inc., a Vision Technologies Systems Inc. company, announced the award for detailed design and construction (DD&C) for two firm and up to four optional 82 mx20.95 m (269’x69′) Auxiliary Personnel Lighter Small APL-67 Class berthing barges by the U.S. Navy. These vessels were awarded to VT Halter Sept. 17, 2018, in response to the Limited Competition Solicitation N00024-17-R-2230.

Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) has awarded both APL-67 and APL-68 to VT Halter Marine with...

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