By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-15 00:42:30 | Updated at 2024-11-28 07:44:58
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Icebreaker ‘Aiviq’ to Join U.S. Coast Guard Before End of Year to Bolster Arctic Presence
gCaptain ^ | November 14, 2024 | Malte Humpert
Posted on 11/14/2024 4:08:00 PM PST by artichokegrower
Commercial Polar icebreaker Aiviq will join the U.S Coast Guard inventory before the end of the calendar year, officials announced during a Congressional hearing on Capitol Hill. The service had requested $125m for FY2024 to acquire the Aiviq from Offshore Service Vessels, part of Edison Chouest Offshore, but few updates on the status of the endeavor had been announced.
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So under the Biden Administration the United States Coast Guard has to buy a used ice breaker. Be glad when the new sheriff gets to town
To: artichokegrower
Why do they need an ice breaker? Biden said all the ice has melted.
2 posted on 11/14/2024 4:11:58 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
To: artichokegrower
I guess we don’t build ships here much anymore.
3 posted on 11/14/2024 4:13:25 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
To: artichokegrower
https://maritime-executive.com/article/u-s-coast-guard-plans-to-buy-the-commercial-icebreaker-aiviq
The U.S Coast Guard is finally moving to acquire the icebreaking offshore vessel Aiviq from Edison Chouest in order to fill a growing capability gap.
Chouest and several members of Congress asked the Coast Guard to purchase the Aiviq in 2015-16, but the Coast Guard previously declined, arguing that the vessel “was not suitable for military service without substantial refit.” In what now appears to be a change of plans, the Coast Guard has issued a public notice that it will enter into a sole-source contract to buy Chouest’s icebreaker.
Chouest and several members of congress asked.................
4 posted on 11/14/2024 4:38:13 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: artichokegrower
Alaska U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski (both R.-Alaska) and Representative Mary Peltola (D.-Alaska) today announced that they have successfully secured federal funding for the purchase of a commercially available Icebreaker by the U.S. Coast Guard. Though the legislators did not state the name of the icebreaker, the most frequently mentioned candidate vessel has been Edison Chouest Offshore’s M/V Aiviq. Back in May 2022, the Coast Guard issued an RFI seeking to identify commercial vessels available for purchase that were constructed at a U.S. shipyard and are capable of operating in or around the Arctic. The USCG said in the RFI that was looking to identify commercial vessels available for purchase in 2023 or 2024 and meeting requirements that, essentially, made the Aiviq appear to be the only possible choice.
5 posted on 11/14/2024 4:41:30 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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