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Eastern Shipbuilding, GD List OPC Design Teammates

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, February 14th, 2014

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Eastern Shipbuilding, GD List OPC Design Teammates

Eastern Shipbuilding teammate STX Marine's PV80 offshore patrol vessel built for Ireland. Photo: STX Marine

As with fellow competitor Bollinger Shipyards, Eastern Shipbuilding Group and General Dynamics [GD] both include foreign shipbuilders in their respective designs for the first design phase of the United States Coast Guard’s potential $10 billion Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) program General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works shipbuilding unit on Friday said its OPC design is based on a variant of Spain's Navantia S.A.’s Buque de Accion Maritima (BAM) offshore patrol vessels built for the Spanish Navy. GD said the BAM is…

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