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Bollinger, Edison Chouest Partner To Pursue Coast Guard’s Arctic Security Cutter

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, May 6th, 2025

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Bollinger, Edison Chouest Partner To Pursue Coast Guard’s Arctic Security Cutter

The 360-foot M/V Aiviq, a polar class 3-equivalent icebreaker. Photo: Offshore Service Vessels

Bollinger Shipyards and Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) have formed a strategic alliance to offer a solution to the Coast Guard’s emerging medium polar icebreaker program, the Arctic Security Cutter (ASC). United Shipbuilding Alliance builds on Bollinger’s work designing and beginning construction of the Coast Guard’s first new heavy polar icebreaker in half a century, the Polar Security Cutter (PSC), and the company’s work designing and building patrol cutters for the service. ECO has built four commercial icebreakers, including a used…

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