USNS Comfort was a New York City landmark throughout the worst days of the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo: McAllister/ David Rider
Philly Shipyard Inc. reviews that it has been awarded a contract by Gibbs & Cox to conduct the T-AH(X) Hospital Ship Feasibility Study. The six-month hospital ship alternative examine will cowl an answer for preliminary designs to exchange the 2 present hospital ships – USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort – owned by the U.S. Navy and operated by Military Sealift Command (MSC).
Those two ships, which had been a lot within the information throughout the corona virus pandemic, had been initially delivered by NASSCO as San Clemente class tankers in 1974 and 1978 and had been subsequently transformed by NASSCO and delivered as hospital ships in 1984 and 1985. Navy considering on what hospital ships ought to do has modified since then.
Philly Shipyard will subcontract to Vard Marine Inc. to offer engineering and technical providers for the hospital ship alternative examine.
“This contract win highlights our commitment to pursuing and securing work in the government market,” stated Steinar Nerbovik, Philly Shipyard president and CEO. “Along with our current commercial and government backlog of shipbuilding projects, we have completed previous design studies for the U.S. Navy and are very interested in pursuing government opportunities that fit our production delivery cycles and skill sets. We are excited and grateful to team up, once again, with Vard Marine on this important industry study.”
Philly Shipyard and Vard will leverage design work carried out as a part of a particular examine accomplished for the U.S. Navy’s Common Hull Auxiliary Multi-Mission Platform (CHAMP) program, which was received in 2019.
