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Canadians, Brits stress U.S., Texas are key to shipbuilding
The $3.5 billion project will build five cutters, with three in Texas and two in Finland, officials said.
- On Monday, Davie Defense broke ground at its Galveston, Texas shipyard to begin constructing Coast Guard Arctic Security Cutters, with Gov. Greg Abbott attending the ceremony.
- The Icebreaker Collaboration Effort , a trilateral initiative among American, Finnish, and Canadian leaders, drives the project; the One Big Beautiful Bill Act awarded more than $3.5 billion to Davie Defense to build five ASCs.
- Davie Defense CEO Philip Burns-O'Brien cited the workforce is "committed to hard work" and noted the company chose Texas for more than 75 years of shipbuilding heritage in Galveston and Port Arthur.
- Referencing the biblical Noah story, Inocea Group Chairman Alex Vicefield noted "God chose a shipbuilder" as a lesson in foresight for preparing America's Arctic defense capabilities before conflict emerges.
- Gov. Greg Abbott called the project "a quintessential America First project," signaling how Trump and Abbott's policies are restoring American maritime industrial capacity after decades of decline.
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