OPC is Coast Guard’s biggest shipbuilding program
Eastern Shipbuilding has actually chosen Jacksonville, Fla., headquartered W&O Supply as the significant provider of shutoffs for the United States Coast Guard’s brand-new Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPC).
The Offshore Patrol Cutter is the Coast Guard’s biggest shipbuilding program with the present agreement requiring Eastern Shipbuilding to accumulate to 9 OPCs.
“W&O is very proud to be selected as a major supplier to Eastern Shipbuilding Group,” states Debbie Garner,Gulf Coast Regional Manager “We believe our experience on naval and commercial vessels as a proven supplier of manual and automated valves has allowed us to be successful with this project. This project represents years of development our team has put into this product line. This project will be handled by our Mobile, Alabama branch, where the state-of-the-art valve automation facility has successfully delivered thousands of motor operated valves to the shipbuilding industry over the last 10 years.”
Founded in 1975, W&O is just one of the globe’s biggest vendors of pipeline, shutoffs, installations along with actuation as well as crafted services to the maritime as well as upstream oil & & gas sectors.
