BATH
Bath Iron Works is still in the running for a contract to build Coast Guard cutters that would likely be assembled in 2017.
According to a statement by Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King on Tuesday, BIW survived the first round of cuts from eight shipyards to five.
“The Coast Guard’s Offshore Patrol Cutter contract would be an ideal fit
for Bath Iron Works,” Collins and King said in the statement. “BIW has
the capacity to assemble ships the size and ruggedness of the Offshore
Patrol Cutters and the workforce needed to do the job, as well as a
track record of designing, building and providing life cycle support for
superior quality ships.”
The Coast Guard will look at designs from the shipyards, selecting as many as three designs for two-year performance tests before making a final choice.
BIW hasn’t built a cutter for the Coast Guard since the 1930s, losing a bid in 2008 to Bollinger Shipyard in Louisiana for new cutters that would have been worth $1.5 billion.
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