MacGregor to Supply Deck as well as Cargo Equipment for USCG’s Polar Security Cutter
MacGregor has actually been granted the agreement to provide the deck equipment as well as freight handling tools for the United States Coast Guard’s next-generationPolar Security Cutter
MacGregor, component of Cargotec, obtained the order from VT Halter Marine, the prime specialist in the PSC program.
For its component, MacGregor will certainly supply the support windlass, mooring winches as well as capstans, major pulling winch, overseas cranes, oceanographic winch, wall mount expenses crane as well as freight accessibility tools. The agreement likewise attends to 2 additional alternatives for distribution to a 2nd PSC in 2025, as well as 3rd vessel in late 2027.
The order is scheduled right into Cargotec’s 4th quarter 2019 order consumption, with distribution prepared to occur in Q3 2021.
“We are delighted to have been selected to supply the deck machinery and cargo handling solution for the Polar Security Cutter programme, with this important contract being testimony to MacGregor’s extensive experience in supplying polar icebreakers globally and our leading position in the supply and support of such solutions for naval logistic vessels,” claims Leif Bystr öm, Head of Offshore Solutions Division, MacGregor.
The Polar Security Cutter is prepared to change the United States Coast Guard’s maturing fleet of polar icebreakers, which has actually decreased to just one functional polar icebreaker– USCGCPolar Star
The brand-new PSC will certainly have the ability to supply lodging for 186 team as well as researchers, with a capacity to appear 2 meters of ice as well as run for 80 days without replenishment.
In May 2019, VT Halter Marine called as the prime specialist in the Department of the Navy’s $745,940,860 fixed-price incentive-firm agreement for the initial PSC. The agreement consists of 2 alternatives which, if worked out, would certainly bring the complete total up to roughly $1.9 billion.
The initial ship is arranged for distribution in 2024, adhered to by the 2nd in 2025, as well as the last providing in very early 2027.
