The US Coast Guard has been forced to adjust the Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) detail design and construction contract with Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG) after the shipbuilder’s facilities were damaged when Hurricane Michael, a Category 5 storm, made landfall in Panama City on October 10, 2018.

The Acting Secretary of Homeland Security made the decision that will see the coast guard work with ESG to establish new cost and schedule targets under the contract and continue OPC production at ESG’s facilities in Panama City, Florida.