Future USCGC Argus at launch Eastern Shipyard. Presumably the furture USCGC Chase in the background.
Marine Link has a report that gives us a look at how shipbuilders look at their industry and their relationship with Government.
This includes comments from both Ben Bordelon, president and CEO of Bollinger Shipyards that is building the Fast Response Cutters and the new Polar Security Cutters, and Joey D’Isernia, the chairman and CEO of Eastern Shipbuilding Group that is building the first four Offshore Patrol Cutters.
There is also a good deal of discussion about new technology being applied to tugs that the Coast Guard might want to consider if we choose to replace the 65 foot and 140 foot icebreaking tugs.
This banner hangs over a passageway in one of the shops at Bollinger’s Lockport shipyard.