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Birdon plans to open a 400,000-square-foot ship manufacturing facility at the Port of Pensacola, Florida, making it its sixth US location. The yard said the site would add more than three million production man-hours a year of capacity and employ about 2,000 people, with opening expected as soon as the third quarter of 2027.
Birdon America has won a firm fixed-price contract to build a Response Boat-Small demonstrator for the United States Coast Guard. The boat will be delivered to a USCG facility in Norfolk, Virginia, or Charleston, South Carolina, for a three-month operational evaluation.
Birdon has started its first apprenticeship cohort at its Bayou La Batre, Alabama shipyard, beginning with shipfitting apprentices. The programme is registered with the Alabama Office of Apprenticeship and supported by Central Gulf Industrial Alliance, with NCCER-aligned training and planned expansion into pipefitting and marine electrical trades.
Birdon has started construction on the first new Waterways Commerce Cutter at its Bayou La Batre shipyard in Alabama. The company said the vessel is part of a $1.187 billion US Coast Guard contract for 27 cutters awarded in 2022, and that more than $27 million in capital improvements are underway at the yard.
The US Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory has selected Birdon to design and build two prototype Ancillary Surface Connector vessels. Birdon said the craft will be built with C&C Marine and Repair at Belle Chasse, with construction on the first vessel due to start in summer 2025 and delivery planned a year later. The ASC is designed to carry up to 40 embarked troops and 54 tons of cargo.