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Marine Group that it has of? cially started con- if all options are exercised.

F INCANTIERI struction on the U.S. Navy’s ? rst Fincantieri ACE Marine, is an

Constellation-class guided missile aluminum construction facility that

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Fincantieri Marine Group, compris- frigate. The yard has been selected builds the U.S. Coast Guard’s me- ing three Wisconsin shipyards (Fin- to build a class of up to 10 multimis- dium-sized Response Boats. It also cantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon sion guided-missile frigates, and the designs and constructs high-speed

Bay, Fincantieri Marinette Marine in program could be worth $5.5 billion coastal intercept and patrol vessels.

Marinette, and Fincantieri ACE Ma- rine in Green Bay), builds and services a range of vessel types for commercial and government customers.

Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding is a specialist in the construction, repair and conversion of Coast Guard and commercial vessels including Great

Lakes freighters and ATBs. FBS is building the two largest LNG bunker barges ever built in the United States and recently delivered The Inter- lake Steamship Company’s Mark W.

Barker, the ? rst new Jones Act laker in nearly 40 years. In September, FBS broke ground on a new 19,000 sq. ft. machine shop.

Considered a center of excel- lence for small surface combat- ants, Fincantieri Marinette Marine is building the U.S. Navy’s future guided-missile frigate, as well as the Freedom-class Littoral Combat

Ships. FMM announced in August www.marinelink.com MN 39|