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Bollinger Shipyards

Bollinger Shipyards builds and repairs vessels for U.S. government and commercial customers. ↗

HeadquartersLockport, Louisiana ↗
Founded1946 ↗
FoundersDonald G. Bollinger, founder ↗
LeadershipBenjamin G. Bordelon, President and CEO ↗
Department of War obligations$355 million in prime contracts since fiscal 2022 ↗
Websitebollingershipyards.com ↗

Products

  • Bollinger has delivered 63 Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutters to the U.S. Coast Guard. ↗
  • Bollinger built 49 Island-class 110-foot cutters. ↗
  • Bollinger secured the contract to build approximately fifty 87-foot Marine Protector cutters. ↗

Customers

  • Bollinger has built more than 189 vessels for the U.S. Coast Guard. ↗
  • In May 2016 the Coast Guard signed a contract with Bollinger for 26 more Sentinel-class cutters, bringing the total on order to 58. ↗

Deals since 2020

Nov 202207

Bollinger Shipyards buys VT Halter Marine and ST Engineering Halter Marine Offshore

Seller: ST Engineering North America

Pascagoula, Mississippi shipyards that design, engineer, build and repair vessels for government and commercial customers, renamed Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding and Bollinger Mississippi Repair

shipbuilding and maritimeSource
UndisclosedClosed Nov 14, 2022

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