When Bath Iron Works lost a multi-billion dollar contract to build a fleet of Offshore Patrol Cutters for the U.S. Coast Guard in September 2016, shipbuilders there were worried that layoffs were imminent.
But, now BIW will get a chance to bid on those cutters.
Back in October, Hurricane Michael inflicted significant damage at Eastern Shipbuilding in Panama City, Florida — the shipyard that won the entire Coast Guard contract.