Late last month, a group of senior leaders from the U.S. Department of Defense visited a pair of Gulf Coast shipyards, with stops at Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss.,… Read More
Panama City
With a crowd of more than 3,000 present, Panama City, Fla.-based Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG) and the U.S. Coast Guard christened and launched the cutter Argus, the first Heritage-class Offshore… Read More
Eastern Shipbuilding Group hosted the keel authentication ceremony for a new 302-foot auto and passenger ferry March 9 at its Allanton Shipyard in Panama City, Fla. The ferry, ESG… Read More
The Coast Guard has awarded a contract to begin construction of the fourth Heritage Class offshore patrol cutter (OPC), the future USCGC Rush, to Eastern Shipbuilding Group Inc. Read More
Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG), Panama City, Fla., began cutting steel September 27 for the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ingham, the third hull of the Heritage Class Offshore Patrol Cutter… Read More
After meeting virtually in 2020, members of the Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association (GICA) and stakeholders of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) gathered in New Orleans August 4–6 for the… Read More
Kongsberg Digital announced April 9 that it has signed a contract with the Panama Canal Authority to upgrade and extend the K-Sim Navigation simulators based in SIDMAR, the Center… Read More
Members of the Panama City, Fla.-based Eastern Shipbuilding Group family, who incurred almost a direct hit from Hurricane Michael in October 2018 when the storm made landfall at… Read More
Eastern Shipbuilding Group, headquartered in Panama City, Fla., reports that the keel laying ceremony for the U.S. Coast Guard’s first-of-class Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) Argus, was held on April… Read More
Eastern Shipbuilding Group announced April 23 that it has signed a contract with Weeks Marine Inc. to construct a 356-foot, twin-screw trailing suction hopper dredge. The dredge, to… Read More
