Corporate Overview

    VT Halter Marine, Inc. is a modern and progressive shipbuilding subsidiary of Vision Technologies Systems, Inc. (VTS) that utilizes cutting-edge technologies to design and build the world's highest quality maritime products.  VT Halter Marine shipyards have an impeccable 50-year tradition of shipbuilding excellence as an internationally-acclaimed shipbuilder, noted for being the largest designer and builder of small to medium-sized ocean-going vessels in the United States for many years.  VT Halter Marine through its lineage, is a leading world-class shipbuilder providing a wide inventory of diversified, high-tech maritime products to U.S. and international markets.  VT Halter Marine has the worlds largest capacity for small to medium size ship construction and can meet even the most challenging design and construction schedules.  VT Halter Marine shipyards have delivered over 3,000 vessels to commercial and government clients in 29 countries on 5 continents.  This experience, backed by the resources of a financially stable, publicly owned company, offers the unique capability to ensure a successful acquisition and manufacturing program in an otherwise insecure shipbuilding environment.  VT Halter Marine has provided vessels to such diverse government agencies as:

    VT Halter Marine, Inc. is a full service shipbuilding company with modern Design, Engineering, Shipbuilding, Program Management, and Logistics Resources.  Having the diverse capability to build small fast vessels as well as medium sized ships up to 50,000 DWT, VT Halter Marine can deliver vessels in steel, aluminum or composites in a variety of hull forms.  VT Halter Marine has proven expertise in design and construction of displacement, and planning monohulls.  VT Halter Marine also builds catamarans, trimarans, SWATHS, Surface Effects Ships (SES), Very Slender Vessels (VSV) and many other hull forms.  VT Halter Marine uses modern efficient construction techniques including NC cutting, modular construction and zone outfitting.  VT Halter Marine designs and builds to the requirements of the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), Lloyds, Det Norske Veritas (DNV), IMO and other regulatory bodies and classification societies.

    VT Halter Marine can design and build to meet specific mission or operational requirements or modify an existing design from a comprehensive inventory of proven and operational designs.  Vessels designed to specific mission or operational requirements are a strength of VT Halter Marine's progressive state-of-the-art engineering capabilities.

    Ships built in the yards of VT Halter Marine have proven that we are a world leader in the shipbuilding industry.  Customers who choose vessels from VT Halter Marine are assured of receiving the "Best Value" ship, designed and built to meet the challenges of the 21st century and beyond.