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SHIPBUILDING REPORT

All American Marine

Once up and running again, All American Marine will take over the construction of a ferry power by hydrogen fuel cells.

Blount Boats

The 56-foot icebreaking tugboat being built by Blount Boats for

N.Y. Power Authority (NYPA).

Photo: Blount Boats Photo: All American Marine told Marine News on March 19 that construction activity is shipyard is wrapping up work on A. Thomas Higgins, the sec- ongoing for three newbuild projects in the yard. A new ferry, ond of two 80-foot 5,100-horsepower Z-drive tugs for Bisso

Southern Cross, for South Ferry on Shelter Island, N.Y. is get- Offshore, after delivering the ?rst in January this year. In ad- ting ready for sea trials ahead of scheduled delivery at the end dition, Eastern is building three 4,500-passenger Ollis-Class of March 2020. Breaker II, a small tug for N.Y. Power Au- ferries for New York’s Staten Island Ferries. The ?rst is sched- thority to pull boom across Niagara River to prevent ice from uled to be delivered in fall 2020.

jamming hydroelectric equipment, is slated to be delivered in Like Eastern, other shipbuilders deemed essential to na-

May 2020 when New York’s upstate canals open. Blount is tional security, including Austal USA, Ingalls Shipbuilding, also building an offshore wind crew transfer vessel (CTV) for Newport News Shipbuilding, General Dynamic NASSCO,

Rhode Island Fast Ferry, to be delivered in November 2020. General Dynamics Electric Boat, SAFE Boats, Fincantieri’s

Down the East Coast, on the Gulf of Mexico side of Flor- Bay Shipbuilding, Marinette Marine and Ace Marine and ida, Eastern Shipbuilding has maintained “full operations others have remained open. Bollinger Shipyards, which oper- building vessels”, Steve Berthold, VP of sales and marketing, ates a number of sites in Louisiana, will remain operational told Marine News on March 20. Eastern is building the high- too. It launched Sentinel Class Fast Response Cutter USC- pro?le Offshore Patrol Cutter for the U.S. Coast Guard, with GC Frederick Hatch (FRC-43) for the U.S. Coast Guard on the series’ lead vessel scheduled to be delivered in 2022. The March 25 at its shipyard in Lockport, La.

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