Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding scores a major contract to build three ice breaker ships for the U.S. Coast Guard. Will ...

The following is the Dec. 22, 2022, Congressional Research Service report, Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter (Polar Icebreaker) Program: Background and Issues for Congress. The Co ...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WLOX) - The U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy received approval for the construction of the first Polar Security Cutter. It will be built at Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding ...

Coast Guard officials say it will likely be a few more years before the ship is officially homeported in Juneau, bringing an ...

In April 2019, VT Halter Marine, Inc. of Pascagoula, Miss., was awarded a contract for the detail design and construction of the Coast Guard’s Polar Security Cutter class.

The Seattle-based Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star on Dec. 7, 2020, ahead of the crew’s months-long deployment to the Arctic. (U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer First Class Cynthia Oldham) The ...

The U.S. Department of the Navy has awarded VT Halter Marine of Pascagoula, Mississippi, as the prime contractor of a $745,940,860 fixed-price incentive-firm contract for the detail design and ...

The Polar Security Cutter fleet contains the only ships capable of operating in the ice-filled water of the Arctic and Antarctic. Unfortunately, the fleet has deteriorated over the years.

A $745 million contract with the U.S. Coast Guard is allowing VT Halter to expand its Pascagoula shipyard and add 900 employees, and they will be building a ship like none other.

Crews continue to work on the Hanshaw Road Bridge in Ocean Springs, and drivers should expect travel delays soon. Temperatures will be in the low to mid 90s this afternoon with heat index values ...

The Polar Security Cutter fleet contains the only ships capable of operating in the ice-filled water of the Arctic and Antarctic. Unfortunately, the fleet has deteriorated over the years.