Sea-Air-Space 2019: VT Halter Marine to kick off work on US icebreaker
VT Halter Marine, the newly selected prime contractor for the US Coast Guard’s Polar Security Cutter (PSC), will soon host a five-day meeting with government’s programme management team to discuss how the design and construction of the heavy polar icebreaker will proceed, according to a company official.
The ‘project kickoff’ event will take place at VT Halter’s headquarters in Pascagoula, Mississippi, in late May, said Ron Baczkowski, the company’s president and CEO.
‘We will talk about how we’re going to go into this relationship and do business for the next five years,’ Baczkowski told Shephard at the 2019 Sea-Air-Space Exposition
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