{"id":12516,"date":"2025-07-02T20:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=12516"},"modified":"2025-07-02T20:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:03:05","slug":"eastern-shipbuilding-wins-714-5m-washington-state-ferries-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=12516","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Shipbuilding wins $714.5M Washington State Ferries contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Eastern Shipbuilding wins $714.5M Washington State Ferries contract<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Washington State Gov. Bob Ferguson <a href=\"https:\/\/governor.wa.gov\/news\/2025\/governor-ferguson-selects-eastern-shipbuilding-group-construct-new-ferries\">announced yesterday<\/a> that he has selected the $714.5 million bid from Florida-based Eastern Shipbuilding Group to build three new 160-vehicle hybrid-electric ferries. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/passenger\/ferries\/two-yards-bid-to-build-wsf-hybrid-electric-ferries\/\">Two shipyards <\/a>had bid for the Washington State Ferries contract, the state\u2019s first competitive bid for ferry construction in more than 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gov. Ferguson\u2019s office, Eastern\u2019s bid was 6% lower than WSF\u2019s own engineer\u2019s estimate, and significantly lower than the other bidder. Washington State Ferries (WSF) will now move forward with the contracting process.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Big news for fixing our ferry system: After careful consideration and conversations with legislative leaders, I selected Eastern Shipbuilding Group to build 3 new hybrid-electric boats.<\/p>\n<p>Eastern is the best option to build these critically important vessels at a fair cost to\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Governor Bob Ferguson (@GovBobFerguson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovBobFerguson\/status\/1940175201712648195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re restoring domestic service to pre-pandemic levels years ahead of schedule, improving crew retention, and soon will bring our first hybrid-electric vessel into service,\u201d Gov. Ferguson said. \u201cAfter careful consideration and conversations with legislative leaders, I believe Eastern is the best option to build these critically important vessels at a fair cost to our taxpayers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we follow Governor Ferguson\u2019s direction to focus on service, it\u2019s exciting, as we restore additional vessels on three routes, to also move forward with constructing new ferries,\u201d said Deputy Transportation Secretary for WSF Steve Nevey.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington State Ferries contract award comes after a comprehensive year-long process of advertising, pre-qualifying shipyards, and answering shipyard requests for clarification.<\/p>\n<p>The shipyard bid is only part of the new build process. There is an additional approximately $150 million for the first vessel for owner-furnished equipment, construction management, WSF crew training, and risk contingencies. This brings the cost of the first vessel to approximately $405 million, the second to $360 million, and the third to $325 million, as contingency risk decreases with lessons learned from each previous construction.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/passenger\/ferries\/eastern-shipbuilding-wins-714-5m-washington-state-ferries-contract\/\">Eastern Shipbuilding wins $714.5M Washington State Ferries contract<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/\">Marine Log<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Nick Blenkey<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/passenger\/ferries\/eastern-shipbuilding-wins-714-5m-washington-state-ferries-contract\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=eastern-shipbuilding-wins-714-5m-washington-state-ferries-contract\">Go to marinelog<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern Shipbuilding wins $714.5M Washington State Ferries contract Washington State Gov. Bob Ferguson announced yesterday that he has selected the $714.5 million bid from Florida-based Eastern Shipbuilding Group to build three new 160-vehicle hybrid-electric ferries. Two shipyards had bid for the Washington State Ferries contract, the state\u2019s first competitive bid for ferry construction in more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5099,279,5100,4378,192,199],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-12516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eastern-shipuilding-group","category-ferries","category-gov-bob-ferguson","category-hybrid-electric-ferries","category-marinelog","category-news","tag-marinelog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}