Bollinger Shipyards to acquire VT Halter Marine facilities in Pascagoula - WXXV News 25

VT Halter Marine’s shipyard successful Pascagoula

Bollinger Shipyards, a privately-owned and operated shipbuilder based successful Louisiana, has agreed to get VT Halter Marine Inc. and ST Engineering Halter Marine Offshore.

The statement is expected to adjacent successful the 4th fourth of 2022.

Bollinger volition instrumentality implicit the 378 acres and 2 shipyards successful Pascagoula and 2 dormant yards northbound of Pascagoula successful the deal. The renamed yards volition go Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding and Bollinger Mississippi Repair.

The acquisition expands Bollinger’s operation and repair capableness to amended service its cardinal defence and commercialized customers.

“For implicit 75 years, my household has been dedicated to providing our authorities and commercialized customers with the highest levels of quality, enactment and work successful the U.S. shipbuilding industry,” said Ben Bordelon, CEO and President of Bollinger Shipyards.

“The summation of VT Halter Marine and STEHMO successful Pascagoula, Mississippi is strategical arsenic it further strengthens our presumption successful the manufacture and U.S. defence concern basal by allowing Bollinger to grow our footprint, capabilities and suite of innovative solutions that we tin supply to our customers. From Day One, the Bollinger squad volition leverage our proven and best-in-class absorption team, operational excellence and existing capableness to ongoing commercialized and authorities programs, particularly the Polar Security Cutter program.”

All of VT Halter Marine’s existent contracts, notably the Polar Security Cutter programme for the U.S. Coast Guard, volition migrate to Bollinger with the acquisition.