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COMBAT & PATROL CRAFT “Evaluating our performance against that of our competitors and against vehicle manufacturers in other sectors, long lead times stand out as a serious shortcoming of our industry. In other vehicle sectors, customers can reasonably expect immediate or near-immediate de- livery, yet customers in our industry must wait. We are signi? - cantly reducing this wait time by implementing a rotating inventory into our production mix.” – Metal Shark CEO Chris Allard

Building on Previous Success to keep workers who might otherwise not have work.

In the ultra-competitive, constantly changing and cycli- Addressing the employment question, Allard couches cal world of American workboat production, there is little the discussion in a different light, insisting, “While not time to sit on one’s hands. Chris Allard says that means the primary purpose of this program, it’s an added bene