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Coast Guard Hoping For Updated Icebreaker Production Timeline From Bollinger Later This Year

Coast Guard Hoping For Updated Icebreaker Production Timeline From Bollinger Later This Year
Computer rendering of Coast Guard's proposed polar security cutter. (Image: Coast Guard)

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Following Bollinger Shipyards’ acquisition of Halter Marine last November, the shipbuilder is expected to begin working on production-related prototype efforts soon that will help inform the ongoing detailed design of the first new U.S. heavy polar icebreaker in decades and hopefully put the company in a position to give a timeline late this summer or early fall on when construction of the ship will begin, a senior Coast Guard official said this week. The prototype modules will include…

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