Metal Shark’s Franklin, La., shipyard
Jeanerette, La., headquartered shipbuilder Metal Shark has actually provided its thirtieth guest vessel given that June of 2017. Its most recent ferryboat shipment, a 97-foot, 350-passenger, USCG Subchapter “K,” welded-aluminum, high-speed, low-wake catamaran, was handed off to its driver recently and also will certainly quickly get in solution.
The vessel is the most up to date from Metal Shark’s Franklin, La., shipyard, where manufacturing of guest vessels proceeds at a quick speed. Five 150-passenger catamaran ferryboats are presently in numerous phases of building at the lawn by themselves committed production line.
In the previous 3 years, guest vessels developed by Metal Shark have actually been provided to Washington D.C., Florida, New Orleans, and also numerous drivers in the state of New York.
“Without fanfare, Metal Shark passenger vessels have been entering revenue service with America’s leading operators at the rate of approximately one per month,” claimed Metal Shark’s Vice President of Commercial Sales,Carl Wegener “With 24 catamarans between 85′ and 105′ and six monohull vessels larger than 45′ delivered in the past three years, Metal Shark has become America’s leading passenger vessel builder.”
HIGH QUANTITY MANUFACTURING
“To achieve this extraordinarily high volume production of passenger vessels, we adapted and incorporated the now-proven serialized production methods that we initially developed to build patrol boat fleets for the US military,” claimed Metal Shark CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERChris Allard “Today, Metal Shark’s passenger vessel customers enjoy the benefits of our military-honed quality, formidable engineering strength, large and highly skilled work force, and unmatched economies of scale. We leverage these resources to assure the repeatable on-time delivery of high quality passenger vessels to our customers.”
Metal Shark concentrates on the layout and also building of bonded light weight aluminum and also steel vessels from 16 ′ to over 300 ′ for protection, police, and also industrial drivers. With 3 completely self-supporting shipbuilding centers in Alabama and also Louisiana plus a committed design center in Croatia, Metal Shark’s 500+ workers create over 200 vessels annually with a record of excellent quality, promptly distributions.
