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Since its founding over 23 years ago, Rhode Island based Senesco Marine has become a leading name in tug and barge building services and repair, having completed over 50 vessels. A highly specialised staff ensure all vessels are finished on time and to the highest standard. Jordan Yallop spoke to Ted Williams, President of Senesco Marine to find out more.
Ted Williams, President of Senesco Marine said: “The company was formed by a group of local entrepreneurs looking to bring new jobs to the local area. They started building basic barges and got some good traction there. The company was then purchased by the current owner of the company in 2006, which was a key milestone where the company really started expanding. That owner then went on to build a lot of tugs and barges over the next two decades.”
Senesco Marine has quickly made a name for itself as the premier shipyard for new construction and vessel repair in the American
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Since 1999 Senesco Marine has been building steel and alu minium vessels to various regulatory standards, basing its success on the quality of workmanship and a commitment to delivering a contracted vessel on time.
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Senesco Marine has successfully built and delivered on-time over a dozen 80,000 bbl and 100,000 bbl double-hulled fuel barges as well as numerous tugs. Senesco Marine is now heavily involved in the off shore wind industry,cur rently constructing three crew transfer vessels . Additionally, the shipyard is leading the way in green energy production for the maritime industry, currently building two hybrid ferries, which will become the first ever built and in service on the east coast of the US.
Mr Williams said: “As of today we have 250 employees, but we’re growing quickly. We anticipate having that number increase by about 100 before the end of 2022. It’s a good time for expansion rightThenow.”company’s facility has over 215,000 sqft of covered floor space and a three-acre repair yard featuring the Leslie G, a 4,500-long ton capacity dry dock with an 82 ft span between the wing walls, sta tioned at Senesco’s 1,200-ft pier with 30 ft water depth. On the south side of the pier, Senesco’s DD2, a dry dock with a capacity up to 2,300 tons, provides an inside beam of 57 ft and a length of 250 ft. With this available pier space area, customers can be provided with plenty of room for topside work or just daily wharfage. Senseco
northeast. Consisting of 27 acres of Narragansett Bay waterfront property, Senesco Marine has created a highly efficient shipyard capable of producing a vast array of vessels for its customers’ needs.
The company started out by building small deck barges, devel oping relationships with customers, and fulfilling needs in the marine marketplace. Since then, the shipyard has built larger barges and entered the competitive tug building market. Senesco is very proud to announce its successes in this venture by deliv ering two of the world’s first aforementioned facet tugs. This has led Senesco Marine into the aluminium fabrication industry.
A multi-pronged approach Senesco can work with a client’s current design and build through completion or take conceptual designs and work with its naval archi tects to develop a design that will meet your needs. Senesco is outfitted with programmable CNC plasma cutting machines, a full function panel line with a 110,000 sqft fabrication building and 110,000 sqft assembly building to start the construction process. The company can receive materials by rail, truck or barge. In-house transporta tion capabilities allow the company to pick up a 750-ton vessel or project and move it anywhere in the shipyard.
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Senesco Marine prides itself on the repair yard workforce being able to handle all of your in-the-water and out-of-water repairs, ranging from Regulatory Body Scheduled Inspections to full vessel retrofitting.
Mr Williams said: “We have a multi-pronged approach here, poised, and ready to continue building barges, we have a great asset. One of Senesco’s strongest assets is our size. We’re the largest commercial shipyard and repair facility in the north eastern United States. So, we have a lot of size, a lot of room, and large areas to launch vessels.
A lighter approach Senesco Marine proudly employs a hardworking force of managers, fitters, welders, outside machinists, engineers, quality control, and administrative personnel dedicated to maintaining the shipyard’s outstanding reputation for putting the highest quality vessels into the marine workplace. Whilst Senesco is best known as a builder of large steel vessels, the company has expanded new construction operations to include
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The large production area enables the yard to build multiple aluminium vessels at the same time to increase efficiencies and economies of scale for production. In addition to the physical facility, Senesco’s work force and in-house engineering team enable the yard to handle all aspects of the construction process and make key decisions to ensure projects remain on budget and on time.
Senesco’s impressive 27-acre facility on Narragansett Bay, together with its quality workmanship and overall management processes have enabled the shipyard to operate as a fully certified shipyard by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and DNV-GL. With the expan sion of aluminium production, Senesco has also continued to improve steel vessel production with the acquisition of new state-of-the-art equipment and a consistent, highly skilled work force.
One area that is seeing growth within the United States is off shore wind. “It is important to highlight that Senesco is in a great position, both literally and figuratively, to be involved with the burgeoning offshore wind industry,” said Mr Williams. “In the US we are cur rently building three CTVs aluminium double hulled catamarans that will carry personnel and cargo; out to the growing windfarms. We fully expect that this area of business will increase exponentially over the next few years.
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aluminium vessel fabrication. A new, full service indoor aluminium production area has been segregated within Senesco’s eastern assembly building to accommodate all clean aluminium construc tion work. The new aluminium shop is set up with two overhead cranes, press brakes, shear, and various new aluminium welding and cutting machines.
“The support vessels that the wind industry will need is just one of the great opportunities available to us. We have also recently launched a 6,000 ton, double hulled, steel dry bulk barge, which is a testament to the great skill of our team.”
When asked about the future Mr Williams said: “Senesco is now one of the established leaders in new construction as well as repair capability for offshore wind in the Northeast.” n
