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FEATURES 26 Construction Survey A list of the vessels under contract, under construction or delivered in the last 12 months.
36 Vessel Report: New Breed Shipyards deliver a new generation of powerful tugs.
44 Cover Story: Calmer Water The infrastructure plan has overshadowed news that business is picking up on the inland waterways.
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BOATS & GEAR 40 On the Ways • Conrad delivers first of three ATBs for Vane Brothers • All American Marine to build two 118-passenger ferries for Kitsap Transit • Metal Shark unveils new passenger vessel lineup at PVA • Blount to build 85' ferry for Fire Island Ferries • Ribcraft delivers 25-footer to Massachusetts • Navy awards $15 million frigate design contract to Marinette Marine
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On the Water: Roger Wilco—Part II. Captain’s Table: Taking the good with the bad on the river. Energy Level: What offshore rebound? WB Stock Index: Seven-month bullish streak snapped. Inland Insider: With infrastructure, it’s national versus regional. Insurance Watch: Report an incident immediately. Legal Talk: Court says no to overtime as part of lost wages.
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Barge operators and the Corps must deal with high water. Zukunft delivers his final state of the Coast Guard address. Towing vessel accidents up in 2016, report says. Oil slump cost Louisiana 21,500 jobs, study says. Administration open to infrastructure financing options. BAE Systems to close its Alabama shipyard.
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here is still plenty of bad news in the workboat world, mainly from the ongoing depressed offshore energy sector. But in this issue we are able to report on several positive trends. Our cover story this month on the inland waterways suggests that business is looking up (see page 44). Despite the industry’s less-than-lukewarm reception to the president’s long-awaited infrastructure proposal and recent weather-related navigation woes, several companies are optimistic and say business is improving. Kirby reported stronger financial results at the end of 2017 than the previous year, buoyed by strong utilization and demand in its inland market. The “inland business should begin to improve in 2018 as the industry right sizes and consolidates,” Joe Pyne, Kirby’s chairman, said in the tank barge operator’s January earnings call. Dry cargo officials are bullish too. “Every piece of equipment we have that’s workable is working, and we’ve seen an increase in just about all commodities, especially in export coal,” Mark Knoy, president and CEO of American Commercial Barge Line told WorkBoat. “It feels so different than it did four months ago, in a good way.” Knoy said that ACBL probably won’t quite be where it wants to be at the end of the year, “but we’ll be pointed in the right direction going into 2019.” Another sector that keeps plugging along is the tug market. Ship assist and escort work has been good, and tug designers and builders have been responding. They have been delivering a new generation of powerful tugs with cleaner burning engine technology to
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handle new 1,200' containerships. As Kirk Moore reports in his article that begins on page 36, immense forces and safety margins needed for handling escort and assist jobs are driving tug designs where hulls, propulsion and steering, and deck equipment are reimagined. Also, more new Z-drive tugs continue to be built, part of a growing trend toward using more Z-drives on the Mississippi River and elsewhere. The strong demand for new tugs was reflected in our annual Construction Survey that begins on page 22, with 83 new tugs listed this year compared to 68 last year. Despite the sluggish offshore, shipyards continue to build.
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he Coast Guard Office of Inspections and Compliance has issued Marine Safety Alert 2-18, “Operational Risk Management and Planning is Essential to Safe Towing and Salvage Operations,” to remind commercial towing and salvage operators to assess operational risks at all times and continually reassess risks based on weather, equipment, experience, and evolving conditions on scene. The alert also reminds those on the water to use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) for prevailing weather conditions. Recently, a commercial towboat captain got underway for a nighttime, 10to 12-hour, dock-to-dock tow during a period when the state had declared a state of emergency for an approaching winter storm. Ultimately, the captain perished at sea after misinterpreting environmental factors that should have
indicated the extraordinary operational risks involved. Around 6 p.m., the towboat hooked up to its tow and got underway. Within a few hours, the weather conditions deteriorated to near white out conditions with a visibility of less than a quarter mile. The 21-foot towing vessel subsequently capsized due to heavy seas and wind at about 1:30 a.m. the next morning. The deckhand onboard the towed vessel saw the captain enter the water but lost sight of him due to darkness, the sea state, and blizzard conditions. Despite exhaustive search and rescue efforts, the captain could not be immediately located. He was found deceased two days later and was not wearing a personal floatation device (PFD). As a result of this casualty, the Coast Guard strongly recommends that commercial salvors, towboat operators, and others who work on the water: Heed inclement weather warnings: • Obtain and monitor weather and
marine weather forecasts for your area of operations. • Evaluate the need to get underway in forecasted hazardous weather. • Consider safe havens and contingency plans along your route should hazardous weather arrive unexpectedly. • Delay tows or salvage operations to prevent putting yourself at risk. Wear your lifejacket: • Obtain the best PFD suited for your operation and environment. • Read the PFD manual and equipment labels. • Follow all instructions including PFD maintenance and inspection recommendations. • For cold-water operations consider using an approved flotation coat or deck-suit-style PFD. Lt. Amy Midgett Public Affairs Specialist U.S. Coast Guard Washington, D.C.
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es, communication can literally make or break you. To communicate effectively requires a common language and vocabulary. Not surprisingly, English is the officially designated worldwide language for maritime (and aviation) communications. However, being fluent in English is not a guarantee that you will understand or be understood. Attempts have been made, such as the International Maritime Organization’s guide to Standard Maritime Communication Phrases (SMCP), to tame our unruly language. Success, however, can be elusive. English comes in many flavors or dialects. In the broadest regional sense, what kind of English is being spoken: American, Canadian or British English? Or is it an Australasian variety? Then, broken down further into the local vernacular, is it New York City or New Orleans, Newfoundland or the Yukon, Cockney or the West Midlands? It’s all nominally the same and yet different enough that it can easily be mutually unintelligible, on purpose or unintentionally. Let’s face it, wherever we’re
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have worked on the Ohio River and its tributaries since 1970. I have seen many ups and downs of the river stage and remain amazed at how Mother Nature works on the rivers. Each year can be very different. At presstime, the BB Riverboats offices were evacuated due to the Ohio River being over flood stage. The normal pool is 26 feet and flood stage is 52 feet. On Feb. 20, the river stage in Cincinnati was 55.5 feet. So what does high water mean? According to my company’s high water plan, it means that we have to move the Belle of Cincinnati from our dock in Kentucky to the Cincinnati Public Landing where there are dead men to secure the vessel until the river gets back below flood stage. This is a difficult but necessary process. It requires 24-hour manning on the vessel as well as our dock, but is by far the best and safest
from and whatever our education, none of us speak proper Queen’s English. Besides, that would be a wee bit posh for the likes of us. So, each in our own ways — national, regional and local — we mangle the mother tongue as we will and go about our business. Different sectors of maritime operations also have their own specialized vocabularies, or slang, and crosspollination can happen. However, the important characteristics of effective communication are generally universal, and at the top of my own list of desirable attributes is clarity and conciseness. You want to do everything possible to minimize the odds that your spoken intentions or instructions are misunderstood, while simultaneously using as few words as possible to do it. And the information flows best when everyone else is doing likewise. It’s always a balancing act between ensuring full comprehension, time and economy of speech. When multiple parties are involved (bridge personnel, deckhands, and assist tugs) in especially time-sensitive and dynamic operations (close quarters maneuvering, such as docking and undocking), it is of the utmost concern. Sometimes, less is more.
alternative. This year, when we moved over to the landing, high water had already covered all the dead men so that we could not tie up and secure the vessel properly. So we reverted to the old steamboat days and tied securely to some of the old trees that have been there for many years. This practice was common in the steamboat era when trees, in many cases, were the only things boats could tie to. Fortunately, this practice worked well and our vessel and crew were safe and secure. High water should not be taken lightly and should not be ignored. It is inherently dangerous for those who do not understand the river. It is very difficult to know how deep the water really is unless you know what you are dealing with. The current water temperature is 42° and the river is running at around 5.5 mph. Your chances of surviving in this water are not very good. All precautions should be taken to their fullest in these conditions. I am hopeful that the waters will soon recede. After all, they always do. I hope that all of you who are now dealing with the flooding will stay safe.
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ast month I wrote about increased optimism offshore. Now I am not so sure. Despite oil and gas majors Chevron, Shell, BP and Total all announcing major deepwater discoveries in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, the offshore market, particularly in the U.S. Gulf, is still on life support. Two recent trends support this conclusion. The first is the recent round of mergers and acquisitions in the offshore service sector. The January merger of Technip and FMC to create one of the world’s largest service companies leads the list. Doug Pferdehirt, CEO of TechnipFMC, explained why a merger made sense in the current environment. “With our merger complete, TechnipFMC is uniquely positioned to unlock possibilities for our clients to transform their project economics,” he said in a statement. In other words, we can do it cheaper. The merger was part of a large group of deals in the oil and gas industry in the first half of 2017, totalling $137 billion. Activity in the second half of 2017 fell off dramatically. Total M&A activity was $158 billion for the year, still the strongest since 2014. The combination of upstream companies has continued in 2018. In late February, Schlumberger announced plans to form a joint venture with the UK’s Subsea 7 to enhance its presence in the offshore engineering and construction sectors. The long-suffering offshore drilling sector continues to be particularly susceptible to M&A activity. Last fall, Ensco acquired Atwood Oceanics for $850 million. In January, Transocean completed its acquisition of Norway’s Songa Offshore for an estimated $1.1 billion. In February, Norway’s Borr Drilling announced the planned acquisition of Houston-based Paragon Off-
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opposition in certain coastal states to offshore oil and gas development. Despite President Trump’s plans to open these areas to offshore drilling and production, it will most likely not occur anytime soon.
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fter seven consecutive monthly increases, the WorkBoat Composite Index finally lost ground in February. For the month, the Index lost 89 points, or 3.7%. For the month, losers topped winners by a ratio of more than three to one. Among the top percentage losers for the month was Gulf Island FabriSTOCK CHART INDEX COMPARISONS Operators Suppliers Shipyards Workboat Composite PHLX Oil Service Index Dow Jones Industrials Standard & Poors 500
cation. The Houston-based marine fabricator and shipyard saw its stock plummet 36% in February. During the month, the company reported a net loss of $24.3 million on revenue of $37.3 million for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2017. That compares to a net loss of $3.6 million on revenue of $55.5 million for the year earlier period. The results were negatively Source: FinancialContent Inc. www.financialcontent.com
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impacted primarily by the loss of $23.9 million related to the construction of two MPSVs. “2017 was a challenging year for our company, and this quarter’s results reflect these difficult times,” Kirk Meche, Kirk, Gulf Island’s president and CEO said in a Feb. 27 earnings call. “Underutilization within our divisions, along with an adjustment to one of our complex projects within our shipyard division, put our financial results in a loss position for the quarter and year-end.” On a positive note, Meche said that the backlog numbers continue to improve and the majority of new projects will not start until the end of the second or early third quarter. The company had a revenue backlog of $222.6 million on Dec. 31, 2017, compared to a revenue backlog of $133 million on Dec. 31, 2016. The backlog includes commitments received through Feb. 26, 2018 — David Krapf
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information in a timely fashion, even if the eventual medical bill is less than your deductible or no claim is filed. Recently a passenger vessel operator contacted us to report a claim. A passenger had fallen while disembarking from a tender while on a shore trip. The captain had offered medical assistance off the boat at a local clinic but the passenger refused, stating that they were fine and wanted to continue with the trip. The passenger enjoyed the remainder of the trip with no complaint. Fourteen months later, the vessel owner received a notice from an attorney seeking payment of medical bills as well as for pain and suffering. Another client had a similar situation. A crewmember injured her back
while on board. The insured reported the occurrence and the crewmember received medical By Chris treatment for her Richmond injury. Eighteen months later, the insured was issued a summons from the crewmember’s attorney looking for pain and suffering. The adjustor was able to reopen the claim and review the file with all the pertinent notes from the time of the claim. In both cases, the insurance agent and the insurance company had information on file, which greatly helped their situation. Chris Richmond is a marine insurance agent and licensed mariner with Allen Insurance and Financial. He can be reached at 800-439-4311 or at crichmond@allenif.com.
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mployment is generally deemed to be an at-will relationship. But employment can also be governed by written contracts, commonly used in the maritime industry. Because large vessels operate virtually non-stop, a shipowner wants to know it will have a crew for the next six months. Likewise, crewmembers want to know they’ll have a berth for the long haul. A federal court recently ruled on a dispute about overtime wages in one such maritime employment contract (Ref: Joyce v. Maersk Line Ltd, District of N.J., No. 16-3553, (Third Circuit 2017). The matter involved a bosun on a containership who had signed on for three months. After the ship left port,
the crewmember became ill with kidney stones. This resulted in his return to the U.S. The collective bargaining agreement set forth terms for lost wages, maintenance, and cure. In a nutshell, maintenance is money for living expenses, while cure is money for medical expenses. The crewmember was entitled to unearned wages for the remainder of the contract period in the event of medical discharge. The dispute here hinged upon overtime pay, which was not included in the definition of unearned wages. The crewmember was paid base pay, but not overtime. He filed a putative class action, alleging “portions of the collective bargaining agreement governing unearned wages … violated general maritime law.” The lower court ruled in favor of the shipowner, denying overtime pay. On appeal, the bosun argued three points. The first was that a seafarer’s right to unearned wages dates
back almost 1,000 years, and should be treated like the right to maintenance. Second, By Tim Akpinar he argued that overtime pay has consistently been part of the common law right to unearned wages. Third, he argued that an unearned wage rate in a collective bargaining agreement can be set aside when there is evidence it is insufficient, citing Barnes v. Andover Co. L.P., 900 F.2d 630 (Third Circuit 1990). The appeals court upheld the decision of the lower court and did not grant overtime as part of lost wages. Tim Akpinar is a Little Neck, N.Y.-based maritime attorney and former marine engineer. He can be reached at 718-2249824 or t.akpinar@verizon.net.
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wet winter that flooded parts of the Ohio River Basin down to the Lower Mississippi River Valley had the Corps of Engineers and river operators preparing for prolonged high water approaching 2011 levels. Navigation was disrupted on the Ohio, Illinois, Tennessee and Arkansas rivers, leading to some lock closures on the Ohio, and slow transits on every system, American Commercial Barge Line noted in its customer updates. Cincinnati saw a river peak of 64.7', the highest since 1997. As volumes of water moved south, barge tow sizes were reduced in early March from 40 to 30 barges on the Lower Mississippi River, with daylight passage restrictions imposed at Memphis, Tenn., Helena, Ark., and Vicksburg, Miss. High water conditions are expected to persist through April. The Corps of Engineers opened the Bonnet Carré Spillway from the Mississippi River into Lake Pontchartrain on March 8 — much earlier than in past years — as the river rose toward its 17' flood stage at New Orleans. It will keep the volume of the Mississippi River flows at New Orleans from exceeding 1.25 million cu. ft. per second (cfs). — Kirk Moore
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ne year after facing the threat of across-the-board budget cuts, the Coast Guard’s performance in hurricane rescues, drug interdiction and acquiring new ships on time and on budget has won friends in the nation’s capitol. “The Coast Guard brand is way up,” Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft said in his annual state of the Coast Guard address on March 1. One day later the Coast Guard and Navy together issued a long-awaited request for proposals to build the first of three new heavy icebreakers. The contract would be let in fiscal year 2019, with the aim of recapitalizing the Arctic fleet — now down to two ships — in the mid-2020s. That need was underlined during the icebreaker Polar Star’s annual resupply mission to National Science Founda18
tion outposts in Antarctica. The crew of the 40-year-old, 399'×83'×31' ship had to make emergency repairs to a leaking shaft seal and failure of one of its three 25,000-hp Pratt & Whitney turbines. “We are building out the Coast Guard of the future,” said Zukunft, who stated a minimum annual Coast Guard budget need: a floor of $2 billion for acquisition, and 5% annual increases in operations and maintenance. As the smallest branch of the U.S. military “that consistently punches above its weight … it’s high time we were budgeted accordingly,” said Zukunft. Now in his fourth and final year commanding the 42,000-member branch, Zukunft said he has been fighting the end of what he called “the do-or-die, suicide stretch” pattern of
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the Coast Guard battling to carry out its missions with inadequate funding. That threat appeared to mushroom in the early weeks of the Trump administration, when word leaked of a potential 14% slash in the Coast Guard budget being considered at the White House Office of Management and Budget. Bipartisan supporters in Congress quickly rallied, and beat down any possibility that lawmakers would
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entertain Coast Guard cuts in the administration’s first budget proposal. By mid-May 2017, President Trump was extolling the Coast Guard in his Coast Guard Academy commencement speech, and promising progress toward building a new icebreaker fleet. The recent track record for delivering other new classes such as the fast response cutters, coming in on time and on budget with few faults has contributed to the Coast Guard’s credibility in Washington, said Zukunft. So too has the performance of new cutters and crews in interdicting drug smugglers and helping civilian law enforcement and allied nations to counter transnational criminal networks, he said. Coast Guard crews shone in their response to hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, with thousands of active saves and follow-up support for relief efforts — even as thousands of service members and their families had to deal with storm damage to their own homes, Zukunft said. With new cutters and now the icebreaker program under way, the service is next looking to a class of “waterway commerce cutters” to replace its aging inland fleet, where some buoy tenders and other stalwarts of the brownwater fleet are approaching 70 years of age.
Three crewmembers died when the tug Specialist sank in the Hudson River in March 2016.
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tugboat sinking at a New York bridge construction site accounted for three of eight fatalities in the towing industry during 2016, a year that saw a slight uptick in overall accidents. The March 2016 sinking of the tugboat Specialist after it hit a construction barge on the Hudson River pushed the fatalities count up to eight from six in 2015, according to a recently released report by the National Quality Steering Committee, a joint endeavor of the Coast Guard and the American Waterways Operators. Generally the annual review has documented a trend of safer operations
since the mid-1990s, with fatalities steadily declining from a spike of 29 deaths during 1997. The report noted an upturn in less serious reported vessel incidents, 1,231 during 2016, up from 1,098 incidents in 2015. Of those, 84% were classed as “low intensity,” but still showed a climb back. Incident numbers in 2015 were down sharply from the typical numbers of recent years, which stood at 1,797 during 2014. Aside from low-intensity mishaps, the number of more serious incidents has remained fairly constant in recent years, the report noted. Oil spills are reported as another measure of safety performance, and 2016 continued an industry trend of long-term improvement. Spills from
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tank barges were tallied at 32,202 gals., down from 147,070 gals. in 2015. The committee uses those numbers to establish another metric of gallons spilled per million gals. transported by barge. The 2016 rate was 0.42 gals., down from 1.9 gals. during 2015. Reported crew injuries were down to 100 for 2016, from 109 in 2015. Falls onto surfaces, strains and sprains, being struck by moving objects, and line handling accidents are the most common cause of injuries. While deaths have declined over the years, lives lost from falling overboard remained a near constant, claiming four lives in 2016, a number that has hovered around three or four casualties annually since 2010. — K. Moore
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easing infrastructure and attracting private pension fund investment could be part of the emerging Trump administration infrastructure plan to leverage new investment. “We want all financing options to be available … let’s be open to all other kinds of options,” Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao said in testimony before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on March 6. Chao defended the administration’s approach of offering $200 billion over 10 years as “seed money to incentivize investment by state and local government,” over objections from Democratic members of Congress that it’s not enough to help cash-strapped states. The plan aims to make state and local governments the primary drivers of investment decisions including ports and waterways improvements, said Chao. Lawmakers indicated they would look closely at funding formulas. One concern is projects that lack a revenue generating component will be at a disadvantage, said Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C. That could affect flood protection for Charleston, S.C., a city increasingly subjected to tidal flooding, he said. — K. Moore
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formation we need to tell the story of these industries,” said state Rep. Gene Reynolds, D-Minden. The LSU economists noted that other Gulf Coast states hurting from the oil downturn could poach maritime businesses if Louisiana’s tax environment becomes less favorable. “Since vessels are not fixed to the ground, it is relatively easy for a company to send a vessel to another Gulf Coast state or farther up the Mississippi River for repair,” the authors wrote, recalling as an example the 2011-2015 phase-out of Avondale Shipyard near New Orleans, as Huntington Ingalls consolidated shipbuilding operations in Pascagoula, Miss. At one time, Avondale was reportedly the largest employer in Louisiana, with about 26,000 employess. The Avondale closing cost some 5,000 jobs in Jefferson Parish near New Orleans, said state Rep. Julie
Stokes, R-Kenner. Louisiana needs to guard its offshore service industry too, the report stressed. “While Port Fourchon currently serves as the primary base for offshore services in the Gulf of Mexico, other coastal ports from Texas to Alabama are strong contenders to attract off-
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BAE Systems to cut 155 Alabama jobs AE Systems Southeast Shipyards in Mobile, Ala., is closing its doors. The culprit? The collapse of the offshore energy industry. BAE, whose headquarters is in Burlington, Va., acquired the yard from Atlantic Marine in 2010. The facility built new vessels, but its primary function was ship repair, working on offshore service vessels, drilling rigs and semisubmersible platforms over the past eight years. The company expects to lay off 155 of its 170 workers by the end of June, said Karl D. Johnson, director of communications, platforms and services. Those workers will be finishing up a newbuild project, a 350', 7,000-gt multiservice vessel for Oceaneering International, the last for BAE in
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Mobile. “About 75 will be leaving by the end of the week,” Johnson said on March 1, “and a total of 155 by the end of June when the newbuild project is completed.” In August 2016, BAE laid off 200 workers in Mobile, which was about half of its workforce. The yard’s fortunes are closely tied to the offshore energy sector, and the prolonged downturn in the oil and gas industry
in the Gulf forced BAE’s hand. “It’s a prolonged downturn in our primary business at that yard which is tied to the oil and gas industry,” said Johnson. “That’s what we’re calling it.” BAE did not say what it would do with the Alabama property after June. “We don’t have an answer right now, but there will be a caretaker staff at the facility after June,” Johnson said. — Ken Hocke
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ompetition is fierce in the shipyard industry. Though it has always been this way, never has this statement been more on target than now. More shipyards are chasing fewer contracts — especially in the U.S. Gulf. That said, the total number of vessels in WorkBoat’s 20172018 Construction Survey was 583, topping last year’s 510. (The number is derived from contracts let, vessels under construction, and boats delivered over the past 12 months. The number is fluid. Many yards list contracts as multiple boats instead of a particular number; therefore, “multiple” only counts as one in the survey.) One of the biggest gains came from the passenger vessel industry, specifically in the number of ferries and water taxis built — 63 this year versus 30 last Powered Vessels Reported for 2017-2018 30 7 63 9 6 26 15 Boom: Spill Response
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year. The patrol boat category led the survey again with 221, compared to 137 last year. Down categories for 2017-2018 reflect two industry sectors that are going through difficult times — offshore and inland. Offshore has been decimated by the offshore energy collapse now into its third year. The supply vessel category fell from 31 last year to only six this year. The inland market is overbuilt and pulling back on newbuild orders. New barge construction is off from two years ago, and the pushboat/towboat category dropped from 48 in 2016-2017 to 26 this year. “It’s very, very, competitive,” said Steve Berthold, vice president of sales and marketing at Eastern Shipbuilding Group. For offshore equipment “unless they’re specialized vessels, it’s going to be a tough business.” So tough that BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards in Mobile, Ala., is closing its doors. BAE acquired the yard from Atlantic Marine in 2010. The company expects to lay off 155 of its 170 workers by the end of TOTAL- 583 June. Other parts of the U.S. seem to be doing better than the Gulf, 83 but it’s still a struggle, according to Frank Foti, Vigor’s CEO. “This has been a challenging 221 time in the shipyard business. In this [current] situation, you look for targeted opportunities within 90 200 a diverse business.”
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Tank Barge Tank Barge Asphalt Barge Deck Barge Crane Barge
Vane Brothers — — — —
CONRAD INDUSTRIES INC./CONRAD ORANGE sales@conradindustries.com • www.conradindustries.com Eric Bland, General Manager • Gary Lipely, Director of Marketing & Sales • 710 Market St. • Orange, Texas 77631 • Tel: 409-883-6666 (3) Assateague, TBD, TBD (2) TBD (3) TBD (3) TBD TBD TBD TBD
2018 — — — — — —
110'x38'x17' — — — 232'x48'8"x15'8" — —
S S S S S S S
ATB Tug Deck Barge Crane Barge Tank Barge LNG Bunker Barge Stop Log Barge Dock Barge
Vane Brothers Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Great Lakes Dredge & Dock — WesPac Midstream Corps of Engineers —
DAKOTA CREEK INDUSTRIES mike@dakotacreek.com • www.dakotacreek.com Mike Nelson • P.O. Box 218 • Anacortes, WA 98221 • Tel: 360-293-9575 • Fax: 360-293-1372 (3)WETA Ferry 1, WETA Ferry 2, WETA Ferry 3
12/18 7/19 12/19
144'x40'
A
Passenger Ferry
WETA
DIVERSIFIED MARINE INDUSTRIES dmi83723@aol.com • www.dmipdx.com Kurt Redd, President • P.O. Box 83723 • Portland, OR 97285 • Tel: 503-289-2669 • Fax: 503-289-2825 Dr. Hank Kaplan Earl W. Redd
2017 2017
80'x36'x13'7" 120'x35'x19'3"
S S
Tug Tug
Harley Marine Services Harley Marine Services
Hybrid Market Delivery Vessel
Harbor Harvest
DERECKTOR SHIPYARDS www.derecktor.com 311 East Boston Post Road • Mamaroneck, NY 10543 • Tel: 914-698-5020 • Fax: 914-752-3595 Harbor Connect
2018
62'x21'
A
EASTERN SHIPBUILDING GROUP info@easternshipbuilding.com • www.easternshipbuilding.com Kenneth R. Munroe, Vice President • 2200 Nelson St. • Panama City, FL 32401 • P.O. Box 960 • Panama City, FL 32402 • Tel: 850-763-1900 • Fax: 850-763-7904 (2) Harvey Sub-Sea Harvey Blue-Sea Capt. Troy Hotard
4/17 9/17 9/17
327'x73'x29'3"
S
90'x32'x10'
S
Douglas B. Mackie Ellis Island Magdalen
11/17 11/17 12/17
158'x52'x33' 433'x92'x36' 356'x79'6"x27'3"
S S S
(2) Impala Mompox, Impala Cantagallo Jeffery McAllister
3/17 5/17 1/17
134'x32'x9'
S
96'x34'x14'9"
S
Hull 197
2018
90'x32'x10'
S
(3) Michael Ollis TBD TBD
2018 2019 2020
320'x70'x21'6"
S
Z-Drive MPSV Canal-class Inland Towboat ATB Tug ATB Dredge Barge Self-Propelled Trailing Suction Hopper Dredge Inland River Retractable Towboat 5,000-hp ASD Z-drive Tug
Harvey Gulf International Marine Florida Marine Transporters Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Weeks Marine
Canal-class Inland Towboat Staten Island Ollis-class 4,500-Passenger Ferry
IWL River Inc. McAllister Towing and Transportation Florida Marine Transporters City of New York Department of Transportation
FINCANTIERI MARINE GROUP/FINCANTIERI MARINETTE MARINE
george.moutafis@us.fincantieri.com • www.fincantierimarinegroup.com • www.marinettemarine.com George Moutafis, Vice President of Programs • 1600 Ely St. • Marinette, WI 54143 • Tel: 715-735-9341 ext. 6610 (10) Little Rock, 2017 Sioux City, Wichita, Billings, (Various) Indianapolis, St. Louis, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Cooperstown, Marinette, Nantucket (8) RBM J-1, RBM J-2, 2018 RBM B-1, RBM B-2, RBM B-3, (Various) RBM B-4, RBM B-5, RBM B-6
386'x57'
S
Littoral Combat Ship (9,11,13,15,17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27)
U.S. Navy
44.6'x14.8'
A
Response BoatMedium
U.S. Coast Guard
www.workboat.com • April 2018 • WorkBoat
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Vessel Name or Hull #
Delivery Date
Dimensions
Type Vessel
(LxB)
& Hull Material Steel, Aluminum, Fiberglass
Owner
FINCANTIERI MARINE GROUP/FINCANTIERI BAY SHIPBUILDING
Michael.Pinkham@us.fincantieri.com • www.fincantierimarinegroup.com • www.bayshipbuildingcompany.com Michael Pinkham, Vice President Sales & Marketing • 605 N. 3rd Ave. • Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 • Tel: 715-587-6960 Kirby 155-01 Heath Wood Kirby 155-02 Paul McLernan Hull 3783 Hull 3784 Barge 1964 Millville Cleveland Rocks (conversion)
2017 2017 2017 2017 8/18 8/18 2017 2017 11/18
521'x72'x41' 123'x38'x22' 521'x72'x41' 123'x38'x22' 521'x72'x41' 130'x42'x23' 578'1"x78'x42' 129'4"x42'x23' 494'x71'x27'
S S S S S S S S S
155,000-bbl. Oil & Chemical Tank Barge 6,000-hp ATB Tug 155,000-bbl. Oil & Chemical Tank Barge 6,000-hp ATB Tug 155,000-bbl. Oil & Chemical Tank Barge 8,000-hp ATB Tug 185,000-bbl. Fuel Tank Barge 8,000-hp ATB Tug 16,000 dwt Self-Unloading Cement Carrier ITB Barge
Kirby Kirby Kirby Kirby Plains All American Pipeline Plains All American Pipeline Wawa Inc. Wawa Inc. Port City Marine Services
FOSS MARITIME, RAINIER SHIPYARD dnugent@foss.com • www.foss.com Doug Nugent, Sales & Marketing • 611 East A. St./P.O. Box 759 • Rainier, OR 97048 • Tel: 503-556-5833 • Fax: 206-281-4732 Nicole Foss (10) TBA
2017
131'x41'
S
Arctic-class Tug
Various
—
S
ASD Tug
Foss Maritime Company —
GLADDING-HEARN SHIPBUILDING, THE DUCLOS CORP. sales@gladding-hearn.com • www.gladding-hearn.com Peter Duclos, President • 1 Riverside Ave./P.O. Box 300 • Somerset, MA 02726 • Tel: 508-676-8596 • Fax: 508-672-1873 (2) Circle Line Staten Island, Circle Line Liberty Dixie Hampton Roads (2) Champion, Glory
5/17 12/17 11/17 4/18 9/17 4/18
Assistant Hull 423 Hull 425 Julie Leigh
5/18 10/18 4/19 5/19
165'x36'
S
53.6'x17.8' 56'x17' 90'x29'
A A A
Sightseeing Vessel 600-Passenger Pilot Boat Pilot Boat Catamaran Ferry
52'x17' 75'x21' 70'x21' 112'x33'
A A A A
Pilot Boat Pilot Boat Pilot Boat Catamaran Ferry
Circle Line Sightseeing Mobile Bar Pilots Virginia Pilots Association Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Delta Launch Service Southwest Alaska Pilots Association Lake Charles Pilots Rhode Island Fast Ferry Inc.
GREAT LAKES SHIPYARD jps@thegreatlakesgroup.com • www.thegreatlakesgroup.com Joseph P. Starck Jr., President • 4500 Division Ave. • Cleveland, Ohio 44102 • Tel: 216-367-8126 (5) Cleveland, Hull 6502 Hull 6503, Hull 6504 Hull 6505
2017, 2018, 2019, 2019 2020
65'x24'x11'
S
Damen StanTug 1907 ICE
Great Lakes Towing
GULF COAST SHIPYARD GROUP pnuss@gcshipyard.com • www.gulfcoastshipyardgroup.com Phil Nuss, VP Engineering and Project Development • 13085 Seaway Rd. • Gulfport, MS 39503 • Tel: 228-276-1000 • Fax: 228-276-1001 (2) Harvey Freedom Harvey America, N-116 Tug
3/17 2/18 4/17
302'x64'
S
OSV
95'x34'
S
Tug
Harvey Gulf International Marine LeBeouf Brothers Towing
Fast Support Vessel 600-Passenger Ferry Fast Support Vessel
Seacor Marine Seastreak LLC Seacor Marine
GULF CRAFT www.gulfcraft.com 320 Boro Lane • Franklin, LA 70538• Tel: 337-828-2580 • Fax: 337-828-2586 Liam J. McCall TBA Ava J. McCall
1/17 2017 2017
194'x32'x15' 150'x40' —
A A A
GULF ISLAND SHIPYARDS LLC jayhebert@gifinc.com • www.gulfisland.com Jay Hebert, VP Operations • 301 Bayou Dularge Road • Houma, LA 70363 • Tel: 985-872-2305 Hull 368 (2) Hulls 369-370
30
2018 2019
300'x62'x24' 365'x64'x26'
S S
PSV Multipurpose
Tidewater Hornbeck
www.workboat.com • APRIL 2018 • WorkBoat
Vessel Name or Hull #
Delivery Date
Hull 6096 (4) Hull 6011, Hull 6013 Hull 6015, Hull 6017 (4) Hull 6012, Hull 6014 Hull 6016, Hull 6018 Hull 6019
2019 2020 2018, 2019 2019, 2019 2018, 2019 2019, 2019 2019
Dimensions
Type Vessel
(LxB)
& Hull Material Steel, Aluminum, Fiberglass
192.8'x41'x18'6" 98'6"x42.7'x19'
S S
98'6"x42.7'x19'
S
118'x45'x19.6'
S
Supply Vessel Research Vessel 6,772-hp Terminal/Escort Tug 6,772-hp Terminal/Escort Tug 5,350-hp Icebreaking Tug
Owner Offshore Services Oregon State University Bay Houston Towing Co. Suderman & Young Towing Co. St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp.
GUNDERSON MARINE/THE GREENBRIER COMPANIES gbrx.info@gbrx.com • www.gbrx.com One Centerpointe Dr., Suite 200 • Lake Oswego, OR 97035 • Tel: 503-684-7000 • Fax: 503-684-7553 (2) Kirby 185-01 Kirby 185-02
—
578'
S
185,000-bbl Tank Barge
Kirby Offshore Marine
HORIZON SHIPBUILDING INC. trshort@horizonshipbuilding.com • www.horizonshipbuilding.com Travis R. Short, President • 13980 Shell Belt Road • Bayou La Batre, AL 36509 • Tel: 800-777-2014 Victoria Pasentine
2017
120'x35'x11'6"
S
Retractable Pilothouse Towboat
Florida Marine Transporters
(2) Rosemary McAllister Capt. Brian A. McAllister (10) Hull 200 Hull 201 Hull 202 Hull 203 Hull 204 Hull 205 Hull 206 Hull 207 Hull 208 TBA
4/17 7/17 3/17 3/17 4/17 4/17 5/17 5/17 6/17 6/17 6/17 2017
100'x40'x16'4"
S
85'4"x26'3"x9'2"
A
6,770-hp Escort/Rescue Tug Passenger Ferry
McAllister Towing Hornblower New York Ferry Fleet LLC
60'x18'
S
Landing Barge
Sunset Key Transportation
INVENTECH MARINE SOLUTIONS/LIFE PROOF BOATS micah@inventech.com • www.inventechmarine.com Micah Bowers, CEO • 8585 SW Warrior • Bremerton, Wash. • Tel: 360-674-7019 — — — —
— — — 2017
23' 22' 40' 27'6"x10'x28'
A A A A
RIB RIB RIB Patrol Boat
Western Price Whale Watching Thurston County Sheriff's Office Maui Snorkel Co. Cornelius (N.C.) Police Department
LAKE ASSAULT BOATS/FRASER SHIPYARD info@lakeassault.com • www.lakeassault.com 1 Clough Ave. • Superior, WI 54880 • Tel: 985-876-6302
Sophie Masloff
2017
34'x11'
A
Fire/Rescue Boat
Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire
MEET THE SAN ANTONIO 43 Lake Assault Boats has delivered 43 river barges for San Antonio’s renowned River Walk. These versatile, reconfigurable craft are kept busy with tours, charters, water taxi gigs and more. All aboard!
LAKEASSAULT.COM 715-395-2255 info@lakeassault.com
© 2018 Lake Assault Boats, LLC
www.workboat.com • April 2018 • WorkBoat
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Vessel Name or Hull #
Delivery Date
(2) —
2017
Marine 24
Dimensions (LxB)
& Hull Material Steel, Aluminum, Fiberglass
Type Vessel
A
2017
28' 26' 32'x10'6"
A
Fire/Rescue Landing Craft Fire/Rescue Craft
TBA
2018
—
—
—
TBA
2018
—
—
—
Water Patrol Unit
2017
28'x9'6"
A
Patrol Boat
Capt. Matthew J. McCune
2017
31'x11'
A
Patrol Boat
S
Z-Drive Ship-Assist Tug
Owner San Bernardino (Calif.) County Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Hennepin County Sheriff's Department Rockland County Sheriff's Department
MAIN IRON WORKS 148 Old Ferry Road • Houma, LA 70364 • Tel: 985-876-6302 Liz Healy
2017
100'x38'x18'
Bisso Towboat Co. Inc.
MARINE INLAND FABRICATORS rudy@marineinland.com • www.marineinland.com Rudy Sistrunk, Managing Member • 1725 Buchanan St. • Panama City, FL 32409 • Tel: 850-265-1383 • Fax: 850-265-0487 Hull 307 Hull 308 Hull 310 Hull 311 (2) Hull 312, Hull 313 Hull 314 Hull 315
3/17 1/17 2/17 2/17 10/17 10/17 9/17
25'x14'x5' 38'x16x5' 25'x18'x5' 25'x12'x5' 25'x14'x6' 25'x14'x5' 30'x14'6"x5'10"
S S S S S S S
Towboat Dredge Tender Towboat Towboat Towboat Towboat Tug
Johnson Brothers North West Aggregates Co. 5R Enterprises Corps of Engineers Corps of Engineers Eastman Marine Rybovich
MASTER BOAT BUILDERS adubroc@masterboat.net • www.masterboat.net Andre Dubroc, General Manager • P.O. Box 702 • Bayou La Batre, AL 36509 • Tel: 251-824-2388 • Fax: 251-824-4401 (3) Trident, Triton Trinity
2017
98'6"x43'6"x15'7"
S
Rotortugs
Seabulk Towing
MASTER MARINE s.authement@mastermarineinc.com • www.mastermarineinc.com Steven Authement, Director of Business Development Inland & Gulf Region • 14284 Shell Belt Road • Bayou La Batre, AL 36509 • Tel: 985-223-0282 (2) Miss Deborah, Sam P. Hise (2) Tom Torretti, Rick Pemberton
2017 2018 2017 2018
67'x28'x9'6"
S
Towboat
Waterfront Services
67'x28'x9'6"
S
Towboat
CGB Enterprises
METALCRAFT MARINE bob.c@metalcraftmarine.com • www.metalcraftmarine.com Bob Clark, Contracts Manager • 347 Wellington St. • Kingston, Ontario K7K6N7 • Tel: 800-410-8464 • Fax: 613-542-6515 Kingston 30 (Multiple) Kingston 30 (Multiple) Kingston 25 (Multiple) Firestorm 30 (Multiple) Interceptor 8M (Multiple) St. Lulc (Multiple) Oil Spill Response (Multiple) Interceptor 11M (Multiple) Interceptor 9M (Multiple) Interceptor 9M (Multiple) —
2017-2018
29'9"
A
Boom Boats
U.S. Navy
2017-2018
30'
A
Landing Craft
U.S. Navy
2017-2018
26'
A
WorkBoats
U.S. Navy
2017
32'
A
Fireboat
(North America)
2016-2017
27'
A
Patrol Boat
U.S. Navy
2017
45'
A
Workboat
(Commercial)
2016-2018
30'
A
Boom Boats
U.S. Navy
2016-2018
36'
A
Long Range Interceptor
U.S. Coast Guard
2016-2017
30'
A
Interceptor
Canadian navy
2017-2018
29'
A
Riverine Patrol
—
2017
65'
A
Tour Boat
Tobermory, Ontario
METAL SHARK ALUMINUM BOATS callard@metalsharkboats.com • www.metalsharkboats.com Christopher Allard, Owner • 6816 E. Admiral Doyle Dr. • Jeanerette, LA 70544 • Tel: 337-364-0777 • Fax: 337-364-0337 (6)
32
2017
45'
A
Patrol Boat
Vietnam coast guard
www.workboat.com • APRIL 2018 • WorkBoat
Dimensions
Vessel Name or Hull #
Delivery Date
(Multiple, 13 mininum) (Muliple, 11 minimum) (4) — (6) (2) Potomac Taxi !, Potomac Taxi II TBA
Various Various Various — 2017 2017
85' 40' 97'x28' 85'4"x26'3"x11'6" 85'4"x26'3"x11'6" 87'7"x21'4"x9'7"
A A A A A A
Defender-class Patrol Boat PB(X) 350-Passenger Ferry 150-Passenger Ferry 150-Passenger Ferry 149-Passenger Ferry
Foreign Military Sales U.S. Navy NYC Ferry NYC Ferry NYC Ferry Potomac Riverboat
2018
45'
A
Defiant Pilot Boat
TBA
2018
64'
A
Defiant Pilot Boat
—
2017
35'
A
Patrol Boat
(Multiple)
(Various)
26'x9'4"
A
(Multiple)
(Various)
29'x8'6"
A
(Multiple) (Multiple) (Multiple) (Multiple) (Multiple) (Multiple) (Multiple) (Multiple)
(Various) (Various) (Various) (Various) (Various) (Various) (Various) (Various)
32'x10' 25'x10' 36'x10' 27'x8'6" 29'x8'6" 32'x10' 33'x10' 38'x11'6"
A A A A A A A A
High-Speed Maneuverable Surface Target Response Boat-Small Patrol Boat Force Protection Boat-Medium RIB Patrol Boat Patrol Boat Patrol Boat Patrol Boat Patrol Boat Patrol Boat
Virgin Islands Port Authority Brazos Pilots Association Puerto Rico Police Department U.S. Navy
(Multiple)
(Various)
45'x15'
A
Patrol Boat
Type Vessel
(LxB)
& Hull Material Steel, Aluminum, Fiberglass
Owner
U.S. Coast Guard U.S. Navy U.S. Navy Puerto Rico Police Department FMS (Latin America) FMS (Africa/Caribbean) FMS (Africa/Caribbean) FMS (Africa/Latin America) FMS (Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Latin America) FMS (Asia)
MOOSE BOATS steve@mooseboats.com • www.mooseboats.com Stephen Dirkes, General Manager • 1175 Nimitz Ave., Suite 115 • Vallejo, CA 94592 • Tel: 707-778-9828 • Fax: 707-778-9827 M1-46 M2-38 Crewboat M2-38 M2-38 M1-46 M1-46
12/17 4/18 2018 2018 2018 2019 2019
46'x16' 38'x14' 75'x24' 38'x14' 38'x14' 46'x16' 46'x16'
A A A A A A A
Patrol Boat Fireboat Crewboat/Cargo Boat Harbor/Patrol Boat Fireboat Fireboat Fireboat
NYPD Newport (R.I.) Fire Department Westar Marine Services City of Memphis, Tenn. San Francisco Fire Department North Beach Volunteer Fire Departmen North Beach Volunteer Fire Department
NICHOLS BROTHERS BOAT BUILDERS INC. mattn@nicholsboats.com • www.nicholsboats.com Matt Nichols, CEO • 5400 S. Cameron Road/P.O. Box 580 • Freeland, WA 98249 • Tel: 360-331-5500 (2) Mount Baker, Mount Drum (2) National Geographic Quest National Geographic Venture Abundance TBA
2017 6/17, 6/18 6/17 2019
120'x35'x19'3" 238'x48''
S S
139'x44'x19' 100'x40'
S S
4,900-hp Tug 100-Passenger Coastal Cruise Vessel ATB Tug Z-Drive Hybrid Tug
Kirby Offshore Marine Lindblad Expeditions Holdings Savage (the Mosaic Co.) Batdelta Maritime
RIB RIB Tour Boat First Responder RIB RIB First Responder RIB First Responder RIB Patrol Boat RIB RIB Patrol Boat RIB Tour Boat RIB Tour Boat RIB
U.S. Navy Cape Rib Tours — U.S. Navy — — — U.S. Navy — —
RIBCRAFT USA info@ribcraftusa.com • www.ribcraftusa.com P.O. Box 463 • Marblehead, MA 01945 • Tel: 781-639-9065 • Fax: 781-639-9062 (Multiple) Ribcraft 12.5 (Multiple) (Multiple) (Multiple) (Multiple) (Multiple) (Multiple) (Multiple) (Multiple) TBD
— 2017 — — — — — — — — —
24'x8'8" 41'x11'6" 15'7"x6'11" 18'7"x8'5" 19'4"x8' 21'5"x8'5" 21'5"x8'5" 24'x8'8" 25'7"x8'9" 29'7"x10'3" 35'6"x11'6"
F F F F F F F F F F F
SAFE BOATS INTERNATIONAL krowlee@safeboats.com • www.safeboats.com Kevin Rowlee, Director of Marketing • 8800 SW Barney White Road • Port Orchard, WA 98367 • Tel: 360-674-7161 • Fax: 360-674-7149 (5) Mk VI PB 65 Full Cabin-Inboard (52) 41 Interceptor (48) Over the Horizon
2017-2020 2017-2020 2017-2020 2017-2020
85'x20'6" 66'6"x16'5" 41'6"x11'10" 26'x8'6"
www.workboat.com • April 2018 • WorkBoat
A A A A
Patrol Boat Patrol Boat Coastal Interceptor Vessel OTH
U.S. Navy (International Customer) U.S. Customs and Border Protection U.S. Coast Guard
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Vessel Name or Hull #
Delivery Date
Dimensions (LxB)
& Hull Material Steel, Aluminum, Fiberglass
Type Vessel
Owner
STEINER SHIPYARD INC. sales@steinershipyard.com • www.steinershipyard.com Russel R. Steiner, President • 8640 Henley St. • Bayou La Batre, AL 36509 • Tel: 251-824-4143 • Fax: 251-824-4178 South Carolina
1/17
92'x38'
S
ASD Tug
Hull 542
2018
160'x42'
S
Passenger/Vehicle Ferry
Crescent Towing Love City Car Ferries inc. (St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands)
ST. JOHNS SHIP BUILDING www.stjohnsshipbuilding.com 560 Stokes Landing Road • Palatka, FL 32177 • Tel: 386-328-6054 • Fax: 386-328-6046 (Multiple) Grand Master II
Various 2017
100'x34'x15' 190'x38'x10'
S S
Tug Landing Craft
Vane Brothers Co. Sea Venture Holdings
Patrol Boat Kit Special Operations Assault Craft Search and Rescue Patrol Boat Offshore Patrol Vessel Offshore Patrol Vessel
Egyptian navy
SWIFTSHIPS panderson@swiftships.com • www.swiftships.com 1105 Levee Road • Morgan City, LA 70380 • Tel: 985-380-2544 • Fax: 985-380-2559 (10) PB 641-PB 646, PB 654-657 AN-2 SAR-1 (2) PB 613-614 H 629 H 649
2018-22
91.9'x18.7'
S
12/17
36.1'x8'
A
2018 2019 2019 2018
46'x14.4' 114.8'x24.6' 213.3'x36.1' 173.9'x30'
A A A A
Swiftships, ICS Nett Inc. TBA Bahrain navy TBA TBA
VIGOR
carol.reid@vigor.net; athena@marisagency.com • www.vigor.net Carol Reid, Marketing Manager • 1801 16th Ave. Southwest • Seattle, WA 98134 • Tel: 206-623-1635, Ext. 861; 503-236-3486 (Maris Agency)
Harvest
6/17
508'x96'x26'6"
S
Ammonia Barge
Savage (The Mosaic Co.) Washington State Ferries
(2) Chimacum Suquamish
2/17 7/18
362'3"x83'x24'6"
S
Passenger/ Vehicle Ferry
(2) Tazlina Hubbard Wave Energy Conversion Buoy (3) — (4) Hydrus, Cetus, Argo, Carina Hull 455 (2) Jordan #1, Jordan #2 (5) Bahrain CG #1, Bahrain CG #2, Bahrain CG #3, Bahrain CG #4, Bahrain CG #5 Bahrain CG #6 (2) —
2018 2019 10/18
280'x67'x12'6"
S
125'x59'x31'
S
12/17 5/17, 8/17 3/18, 12/18 1/18 1/18, 8/18 10/18 12/18 3/19 5/19 8/19 10/19 2/18
30'3"x9'8"x2'6" 135'x38'x6.75'
A A
300-Passenger/53-Car Day Ferry Wave Energy Conversion Buoy Rapid Response Skimmer 400-Passenger Ferry
44'11"x14'7"x3' 44'11"x14'7"x3' 44'11"x14'7"x3'
A A A
Response Boat-Medium C Response Boat-Medium Response Boat-Medium
U.S. Navy SF Bay Water Emergency Transportation Authority NY Police Harbor Unit Kingdom of Jordan Bahrain coast guard
30'3"x9'8"x2'6"
A
Rapid Response Skimmer
U.S. Navy
Alaska Marine Highway System Ocean Energy
VT HALTER MARINE INC. corporatecommunications@vthaltermarine.com • www.vthm.com
Robert A. Socha, Senior Vice President • 900 Bayou Casotte Parkway • Pascagoula, MS 39581 • Tel: 228-696-6830 • Fax: 228-696-6893 (2) Hull 2022, Hull 2023 Hull 2028 Powhatan TBA TBA
2018 2018 2018 2018 2020 2020
720'x106'
S
112'x35'x15'6" 270'6"x54'4"x15'6" 128'x42'x19' 324'x64'x52'6"
S S S S
ConRo Ship ATB Tug Ferry ATB Tug ATB LNG Bunkering Barge
Crowley Maritime Bouchard Transportation Virginia Department of Transportation Q-LNG Transport Q-LNG Transport
WASHBURN & DOUGHTY ASSOCIATES INC. info@washburndoughty.com • www.washburndoughty.com
Katie Doughty, Marketing Director • P.O. Box 296 • 7 Enterprise St. • East Boothbay, ME 04544 • Tel: 207-633-6517 • Fax: 207-633-7007 • 409-882-0356
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Vessel Name or Hull #
Delivery Date
Clayton W. Moran Independent Benson George Moran H122 H123 H124 H125
2/17 6/17 11/17 — — — —
Dimensions (LxB)
& Hull Material Steel, Aluminum, Fiberglass
93'x38'x15'5" 93'x38'x15'5" 93'x38'x16' 93'x38'x16' 93'x38'x16' 93'x38'x15'5" 93'x38'x15'5"
S S S S S S S
Type Vessel
Owner
Z-Drive Tug Z-Drive Tug Z-Drive Tug Z-Drive Tug Z-Drive Tug Z-Drive Tug Z-Drive Tug
Moran Towing Marine Towing of Tampa Moran Towing Gulf LNG Services Gulf LNG Services Harbor Docking and Towing Harbor Docking and Towing
YANK MARINE eric@yankmarine.com • www.yankmarine.com Eric Borg, General Manager • 7 Mosquito Landing Rd. • Tuckahoe N.J. 08250 • Tel: 609-628-2928 • Fax: 609-628-3238 (3) Hull 92, Hull 93, Hull 94 Hull 100 Hull 101
3/19, 3/20 9/20 3/18 4/17
109'x31'4"
A
Passenger Ferry
NY Waterway
90'x24' 26'x11'
A S
Head Boat Pushboat
Marine Mammal Tours Inc. Barnegat Bay Dredge
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The Earl W Redd introduced the first Tier 4 engines to the U.S. tugboat fleet.
New Breed By Kirk Moore, Associate Editor
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ugboat designers and builders made big strides over the past year, delivering a new generation of powerful vessels to handle 1,200' containerships with cleaner burning engine technology. Immense forces and safety margins needed for handling those escort and assist jobs are driving designs where hulls, propulsion and steering, and deck equipment are reimagined. Also, new Z-drive tugs, part of a growing movement toward using more Z-drives on the Mississippi River and elsewhere, continue to be built. First deliveries for new tug fleets, using designs from the Damen Shipyards Group, began arriving. Built by Great Lakes Shipyard, Cleveland, the 63'×24' Stan Tug 1907 ICE fleet of 10 vessels is being built to handle the narrow waterways and low bridges of the Great Lakes region. At the other end of the scale, Edison Chouest
Offshore (ECO) brought the first of its new Damen-designed escort tugs, the 140'×54', 12,336hp Commander, and the 107'×43', 6,008-hp general purpose tug Elrington, to Valdez, Alaska, in March. They are the lead elements of a 13-tugboat fleet to be in place this summer, purpose-built by ECO in partnership with Damen, to meet the Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. marine services contract for tanker escort and emergency services in Prince William Sound. The decision to replace longtime contractor Crowley Marine was controversial in Alaska. Alyeska officials say the changeover brings modern Z-drives, new winch technology, and increased power and bollard pull to tanker operations. “The contract brings a fleet of 13 new, fit-forpurpose vessels with 20% more power than those in the current fleet, better towing equipment, and electronics,” Alyeska president Tom Barrett wrote in an www.workboat.com • APRIL 2018 • WorkBoat
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Next generation tugs bring brawn and brains.
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E.N. Bisso & Son’s 5,362-hp Gladys B was built before Tier 4 engine requirements took effect.
The 139', 8,000-hp Abundance is mated to the first U.S. liquefied ammonia barge built in 35 years.
urea as a reducing agent, injected into the exhaust gases to trigger a reaction that converts nitrogen oxide into nitrogen, water and carbon dioxide. It presents designers with new challenges. The SCR system has to be fitted into the machinery space, and accommodations made for stainless steel urea tanks. Jensen designers did it again with the 100'×40'×18', 6,770-hp Z-drive tugs Capt. Brian A. McAllister and Rosemary McAllister. The first Tier 4 tugboats on the East Coast set a new bar as the most powerful ship assist vessels in the region, in time for the arrival of big new containerships.
But the challenge of fitting it all into a package for McAllister Towing and Transportation Inc. brought grief to Horizon Shipbuilding Inc. Faced with higher than expected costs for finishing a set of four tugs for McAllister — along with cost overruns on its NYC Ferry fleet contract — the shipyard in Bayou La Batre, Ala., filed for bankruptcy in October 2017. The first two McAllister tugs were delivered, and an option exercised to start building the third, before Horizon filed for Chapter 11 in October. In late February, the incomplete hull of the third tug, the future Ava M. McAllister, was moved from Horizon’s yard. McAllister officials have not disclosed where it will be completed. Other tug operators secured hull numbers before the Tier 4 requirements went into effect during 2017. That decision played into construction of the Tier 3 powered Gladys B, an 80'×38'×15', 5,362-hp azimuth stern drive tug design by Robert Allan Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia. It was built for E.N. Bisso & Son Inc., New Orleans, by Signet Shipbuilding & Repair, Pascagoula, Miss.
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TIER 4 ARRIVES Harley Marine Services debuted the first Caterpillar Tier 4 rated engines in a U.S. tugboat with the Earl W Redd. The 120'×35'×19'3" offshore towing and ship assist tug, built at Diversified Marine Inc., Portland, Ore., was designed by Jensen Maritime Consultants in Seattle. The twin Cat 3516C diesels in the Earl W Redd, rated at 2,675 hp each at 1,600 rpm, are linked to a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) exhaust aftertreatment system. Tier 4 standards apply to engines above 804 hp, and aim for major reductions in diesel particulate matter — microscopic soot — by 90% and nitrogen oxides by 80%, compared to older Tier 2 diesels. To get there, the SCR system uses
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opinion piece published in the March 1 Anchorage Daily News. “Many marine architects deem these designs ideal for the unique and difficult work in the Sound’s often challenging conditions.”
The 6,770-hp Capt. Brian A. McAllister arrived in New York Harbor in time to handle the new and larger containerships.
The unfinished hull of the Ava McAllister was moved in February from Horizon Shipbuilding for completion elsewhere.
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The RAL Multratug 32 is designed to be safer and more maneuverable in ship escort operations. U.S. Coast Guard/PO2 Nate Littlejohn
new tug design delivered in the Netherlands is the latest effort to give ship escort operators advantages in taming big vessels in close quarters. The Multratug 32, owned and operated by Multraship Towing & Salvage, part of the Muller Maritime Group, features a design jointly developed by Robert Allan Ltd. (RAL) and Voith Turbo GmbH & Co. It features Voith drives inline on the hull centerline, combined with the Carrousel Towing System by Muller subsidiary Novatug. That propulsion and towing arrangement allows safer towing and escort operations, particularly in confined waterways, according to designers. It is also much more flexible, providing thrust at towline angles not practical with conventional ASD or tractor tugs. The setup uses lateral hull resistance and related hydrodynamic forces to create the maximum required steering and braking forces. The propulsion system is primarily used to control the tug’s heading, position and speed. The end result can provide escort steering and braking forces around 50% greater than tugs of similar size, at greater speeds with significantly reduced risk and less engine power. “It is the tug’s relative heading that determines its effectiveness through the water and thus the magnitude of the towline force,” according to a summary from RAL. “At speed, significant hydrodynamic
forces can be generated by simply applying minimal thrust sufficient to change the tug orientation to the escorted vessel.” Reaction time for the tug is just a few seconds after control inputs and it can generate maximum thrust through 360° of turn, the company says. “It can work in confined spaces such as locks and narrow canals where other types of tugs simply cannot be effective due to water circulation effects.” — K. Moore
Similarly, New Orleans-based Crescent Towing ordered a trio of Jensen-designed 92'×38'×17', 5,500-hp tugboats — the Arkansas, Mardi Gras and South Carolina. Built by Steiner Shipyard, Bayou La Batre, Ala., the new tugs are equipped with the new Container Master series of winches from JonRie Intertech, Manahawkin, N.J., built with more line capacity and braking power to handle larger vessels. Both Bisso and Crescent went with Rolls-Royce Z-drives, recognizing the value of having more thrust and maneuverability for the same horsepower compared to traditional propulsion and steering gear. Z-drives give operators more control during high water on the Mississippi River, and make the boats less prone to damage from tree trunks and other floating debris that comes down the river. Switching out a Z-drive takes less time than disassembling a tangle of broken struts and rudders. In the ATB sector, two new 8,000-hp tugs were purposebuilt for dedicated missions. The 139'×44'×19' Abundance, built by Nichols Brothers Boat Builders, Freeland, Wash., is mated with the 508'×96'×51' Harvest, the first complex ammonia transport barge built in the U.S. for Jones Act work since 1982, delivering raw material for The Mosaic Co. fertilizer business. In the Gulf of Mexico, Pennsylvania-based convenience store chain Wawa Inc. is operating the Millville, a 129'4"×42'×23' tug from Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay, Wis., to deliver gasoline for the company’s growing network of Florida service stations. The tug pushes the 578' barge 1964 with a capacity of 185,000 bbls. www.workboat.com • APRIL 2018 • WorkBoat
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New tug and barge will be mated to form new ATB.
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60 diesels driving open 4-bladed, 102", bronze propellers mounted on 9.5" shafts through Reintjes WAF 873 marine gears with 7.087:1 reduction ratios. Two 125-kW Cummins generators and one 60-kW Cummins emergency generator sparks the tugs’ electrical systems. Castleman said the new tug class reflects 40-plus years of work in the design of many types of vessels. “In terms of tugs, I think it’s the work I’m most proud of,” he said. The new 80,000-bbl. double hull tank barge is ABS classed Maltese Cross A1, Unmanned, Unrestricted Oceans Service. In 2015, Bristol Harbor was contracted by Conrad Industries Inc., Morgan City, La., to develop the design based on a previous proven hull design that the company had done for Conrad. The barge is the first of three sister hulls to be delivered to Vane. Double Skin 801 is equipped with a complete loading and discharging system in 10 tank compartments and includes a 10 million BTU thermal cargo heating system. A thermal stress analysis, in accordance with ABS requirements, was developed to ensure hull structural stresses were acceptable.
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n February, Conrad Orange Shipyard, Orange, Texas, delivered the first of three 4,400-hp, 110'×38'×17' ATB tugs, the Assateague, to Vane Brothers Co., Baltimore. Designed by Castleman Maritime LLC, League City, Texas, the Assateague is being mated to the 80,000-bbl. 405'×74'×32' barge Double Skin 801 designed by Bristol, R.I.-based Bristol Harbor Group and built at Conrad Deepwater South, Amelia, La. Each ATB unit utilizes a Beacon-Finland JAK 700 tug/ barge coupling system. A Schoelhorn-Albrecht custom gangway facilitates crew access to the barges. Coastal Marine Equipment, Gulfport, Miss., is supplying the deck capstans on the tugs. Castleman Maritime’s president, Gregory E. Castleman, is pleased with the tug. “I’m happy with the stability and speed and crew comfort,” he said. “I made it as big as I could and still keep it at under 300 tons domestic and under 500 tons international.” The tug has accommodations for up to 10 crewmembers and has been developed using American Bureau of Shipping rules for a classed vessel. Assateague is powered by two 2,200-hp Cummins QSK-
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Conrad completes tug and barge for new Vane ATB
All American to build new ferries for Kitsap Transit
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ll American Marine, Bellingham, Wash., has been awarded a contract to build two 77', 118-passenger ferries for Kitsap Transit that will hit low-wake speeds of 37 knots. The contract is worth $15 million. The ferries will be designed to operate on Kitsap Transit’s current cross sound ferry route between Bremerton, Wash., and downtown Seattle. The ferries will be built with high tensile strength 5383 aluminum alloy. The design of the new vessels is based upon the successful ultra low wake All American-built Rich Passage 1. All American was tapped as the sole source to build the vessels as the licensed builder of Teknicraft Design hulls in North America. Teknicraft’s patented hydrofoil-assisted hull design has a low wake wash energy signature that will not degrade the sensitive shorelines of Rich Passage, shipyard officials said. The new ferries are currently dubbed RP-2 and RP-3 after their sistership, Rich Passage 1, which established the vessel class. That boat was built by All American in 2011 as a research vessel for a demonstration study to prove that high-speed passenger ferry service could safely operate through Rich Passage without causing detrimental shoreline erosion. Extensive wake wash testing and beach monitoring has shown that the Rich Passage 1 is a viable solution. The new boats will fill the need for additional service with one vessel and the other
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Ship’s service power comes from three John Deere 6135AFM85-powered generators, sparking 294 kW of electricity each. In addition, there is a John Deere 4045-powered 99-kW genset aboard. The two cargo heaters are 5 million BTU Vapor Power ONC5937-AHK-50s. For added maneuverability, there is an OmniThruster HT600 bowthruster. The new ATB completed its first job in early March. — Ken Hocke
New 77' passenger ferries will be sisterships to the Rich Passage 1.
available as a spare or to work where needed. “This is kind of an exciting day for the fast ferry program, that we can get the additional RP-class boats under construction,” executive director John Clauson of Bremerton-based Kitsap Transit said in a statement. The design for the original Rich Passage 1 research vessel was spearheaded by Auckland-based Teknicraft, with numerous consultants and contributors to the design effort. “Rich Passage 1 is not your typical ferry, it was built to be lightweight and to fly smoothly through the wake sensitive zone,” said Matt Mullett, CEO at All American. The new boats will be strictly modeled on the proven hull design, but additional enhancements and modernization will be added where possible without hampering performance or its low-wake characteristics. The passenger cabin and deck are made from composites and an adjustable hydrofoil will be molded in carbon fiber. Quad waterjets and Caterpillar C-18 engines will be fitted to provide the high-powered propulsion system in compliance with EPA Tier 3 emission regulations. All American plans to use lightweight aluminum honeycomb panel materials for finishing the interior spaces and will apply high performance bottom paint to further enhance the speed and wake characteristics.
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Though officials did not elaborate on additional specifications for the new ferries, the Rich Passage 1 was outfitted with four Cat engines, producing 873 hp at 2,200 rpm each, connected to HamiltonJet HJ403 waterjets. The ferry carries a crew of four and 800 gals. of fuel. Ancillary equipment includes adjustable-pitch hydrofoil and stern interceptors with a Naiad control system. This latest contract with Kitsap Transit follows a previously awarded contract for a new hybrid-powered passenger ferry. All American is currently constructing a new 149-passenger, 72' aluminum catamaran to operate on Kitsap Transit’s ferry routes between CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS In the January 2018 issue of WorkBoat on page 27, “Master Marine building four 1,600-hp towboats,” Entech Designs was not included as the designer of the towboats. In the “2017 WorkBoat Significant Boats” January supplement, the specifications box on page 27 listed Schottel SRP 1210 Z-drives on all three of Seabulk Towing’s Rotortugs. In actuality, the tug Trinity is fitted with Veth VZ-1250 Z-drives from Sewart Supply. In addition, the Trinity’s Caterpillar engines are rated at 1,649 hp at 1,800 rpm.
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On TheWays Bremerton, Port Orchard, and Annapolis. Alongside Kitsap’s new hybrid ferry, All American is also building the largest lithium-ion hybrid-powered vessel in the U.S. for San Franciscobased Red and White Fleet. — K. Hocke
Metal Shark unveils new passenger vessels at PVA
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ouisiana-based shipbuilder Metal Shark and designer Incat Crowther have partnered to develop a new line of passenger vessels. At the Passenger Vessel Association (PVA) Annual Convention in Savannah, Ga., earlier this year, Metal Shark introduced its new Endurance PV-X aluminum passenger vessel lineup, with 26-meter (86.59') 150-passenger
and 32-meter (106.27') 350-passenger models now available. More designs will follow, Metal Shark said. The welded-aluminum, high-speed, low-wake, catamaran Endurance PV-X models are touted by Metal Shark as “next-generation passenger vessels” and feature proven Incat Crowther hull designs. The new models have been optimized for comfort, safety, and operational efficiency, offering a range of configurations and optional features designed to suit individual operator requirements. “The development of the Endurance PV-X line is the latest step in our ongoing quest to support clients with highquality vessels delivered in the shortest timeframe possible,” Metal Shark’s CEO Chris Allard said in a statement announcing the new designs. “We offer
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a smart alternative for operators who do not want to wait for two years or more for a new passenger vessel. With these standardized production-ready platforms, combined with our proven serialized production methodologies, we can deliver the 150-passenger vessel in eight months and the 350-passenger vessel in 10 months.” The Endurance PV-X vessels feature chiseled, modern lines derived from Metal Shark’s latest military patrol boat designs. Other features include large windows to create a sense of openness while enhancing the view from within, a range of seating arrangements, wide aisles, and roomy head compartments. Amenities such as LED infotainment screens, charging stations for electronic devices, onboard WiFi, and bicycle racks are all avail-
85' ferry for Fire Island Ferries.
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former Coast Guard buoy tender turned research vessel is getting a second makeover from Monmouth University in New Jersey. The 49.6'×16.8'×5.6' Nauvoo was originally acquired by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 2002 and had been used for fisheries science and other survey work at NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center Laboratory at Sandy Hook, N.J. But in recent years the Nauvoo was laid up. Eventually, the university and NOAA agreed to transfer ownership of the vessel in October to the university. It gives Monmouth researchers and students the capability to operate from the Jersey Shore and New York Harbor to 20 miles offshore. Twin 8V-71 Detroit Diesel
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The research vessel Nauvoo in New York Harbor.
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engines rated at 305 hp each give the Nauvoo a cruising speed of 10 knots and 300-mile range. Deck equipment includes two Pullmaster H12 winches, two Pullmaster KPL8 winches, an 18'×12' A-frame with 4,500-lb. working capacity, and a 6'×3' aluminum net reel. A grant from the Farleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Foundation provided for navigation and safety equipment upgrades. By late February the Nauvoo was undergoing painting and final maintenance work at Dorchester, N.J., and scheduled for delivery in March. Blount Boats, Warren, R.I., was awarded a contract recently from Fire Island Ferries, Bay Shore, N.Y., to construct an 85' aluminum ferry. The new ferry will operate between Bay Shore on Long Island and Fire Island across the Great South Bay. The vessel is a sistership to the Fire Islander (Hull 368) built by Blount Boats in 2013. The triple-screw ferry will be powered
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Metal Shark has introduced a new line of 150- and 350-passenger vessels.
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Pairs of Caterpillar C18 ACERT diesel engines, producing 803 hp at 2,100 rpm each, will power the 150-passenger boats. The engine package for the 350-passenger model has not been announced. Metal Shark is currently slated to deliver nine passenger vessels this year, with numerous 150- and 350-passenger vessels currently under construction at its Franklin, La., shipyard for markets including New York, Washington,
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by John Deere 6135SFM85 diesel engines, producing 650 hp at 2,100 rpm each. The mains will spin props through ZF 550 marine gears with 2:1 reduction ratios. The new boat will be USCG certified, Subchapter K. When delivered, the ferry will be the 10th boat designed and built by Blount for Fire Island Ferries since 1972. Delivery is scheduled for May 2019. Ribcraft, Marblehead, Mass., recently delivered a specialized 25' Ribcraft 7.8 to the Edgartown Harbormaster. Located on the eastern side of Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., the Edgartown Harbormaster provides search and rescue, routine patrols, and mooring management duties to the town. The 7.8 features a two-person console enclosure,
25' patrol boat for Massachusetts harbormaster.
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able. Metal Shark’s pillar less glass pilothouse is designed to enhance visibility from the elevated helm station. Initially shown in a conventional forward facing passenger ferry layout, alternate arrangements have been designed for whale watch or dinner boat operators, with convertible seating available in select arrangements for maximum versatility. In 2017, Metal Shark delivered a total of eight 150-passenger vessels on or ahead of schedule. The new Endurance PV-X models are intended to allow the company to deliver passenger vessels even faster than before, Metal Shark said. Tankage for the 150-passenger vessel will include 2,000 gals. of fuel oil and 525 gals. fresh water. Capacities for the 350-passenger boats will include 1,425 gals. fuel oil and 660 gals. fresh water.
D.C., and New Orleans. “Thanks to the large number of contracts we’ve announced over the past year, a few clients have gotten the mistaken impression that we’re too busy to take on additional work,” said Metal Shark vice president Carl Wegener. “We’re definitely busy at both of our facilities but thanks to efficient engineering and production management our operations are optimized for volume.” — K. Hocke
The Navy is looking for a new guided missile frigate.
provides open deck space for patients or equipment, easy access for officer boardings, unobstructed views, and a comfortable platform for long hours on the water. Powered by a 250-hp Yamaha outboard, the RIB will reach speeds in excess of 50 mph. The Navy has awarded Marinette Marine Corp. a $15 million contract to evolve its multipurpose frigate (FREMM) design into the next generation FFG(X) guided missile frigate. Marinette Marine, a subsidiary of Fincantieri, has teamed with Gibbs & Cox and Trident Maritime Systems to evolve FREMM to U.S. design standards. The U.S. team will develop an FFG(X) design for serial production at Fincantieri’s U.S. shipyards.
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The barge industry is still suffering from an equipment overhang but many say the long-term outlook is good.
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Lost in the news of the administration’s infrastructure plan is that barge companies see improvement ahead.
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By Pamela Glass, Washington Correspondent
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continued glut in the barge market and river navigation problems menaced the inland industry over the past year. But the bigger story has been the disappointing roll-out of the Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan that would increase fees on barge operators, and a fiscal 2019 budget that jeopardizes funds for three priority lock and dam improvement projects. For an industry that largely supported President Trump and was excited to see a president finally pay direct attention to the poor state of the inland river system, a triple whammy of vessel fees, lockage fees and budget cuts would, as one waterways advocacy group puts it, have “dire consequences” for river commerce. Last July, the president held a press conference along the Ohio River, as an oversized American flag flew from an Ingram Barge Co. towboat behind him, and acknowledged the enormous needs of the waterways and promised to find a solution. “Together we will fix it,” he said. “We will create the first-class infrastructure our country and our people deserve.” Trump again mentioned the inland waterways in his State of the Union address in January.
It was the first time in more than 30 years that a sitting president had given the rivers such high profile attention, and the barge industry was understandably pumped. But the plan he launched on Feb. 12 was far from what river operators had expected. For decades, the cost of financing waterway infrastructure projects were split 50-50 between Uncle Sam and about 400 commercial operators who pay a 29-cent-per-gallon diesel fuel tax into the Inland Waterways Trust Fund (IWTF). The Trump plan would shift the traditional federal role to “third party service providers” who could impose and retain tolls or lockage fees on the lock and dam system. In return, however, there’s no solid promise that the infusion of funds would benefit waterways projects. Upending this partnership is in line with other proposals in Trump’s infrastructure plan that would shift funding burdens to shippers, states and local governments. At the same time, the president’s fiscal 2019 budget proposal for the Army Corps of Engineers, which oversees waterways construction and maintenance, would cut civil works funding by 22%, and for the first time, 10% of the costs for the operation and maintenance of locks and dams would come out of the IWTF.
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In addition, the budget would spend only $5.25 million of the $114 million collected in 2017 from the IWTF, with the Olmsted Locks and Dam construction project on the Illinois River the only one getting funded. Work at three other navigation projects under construction (Lower Monongahela River project in Pennsylvania, Kentucky Lock and Chickamauga Lock on the Tennessee River) would stop.
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young to justify large sell-offs of older equipment, so it’s likely that the oversupply will hang on for at least another three years, Ken Ericksen, senior vice president of Informa Economics, said at the Waterways Council’s Annual Waterways Symposium in Mobile, Ala., in November. The glut is especially acute in the domestic coal market, which continues to be hurt by a reduction in coal demand and the closure of coal-fired power plants due to strict environmental regulations and price pressures from cheap natural gas. “These past years have done irreparable harm to the (coal) industry and this is affecting the (barge) industry,” said Somales of Murray American. “There is more equipment than there is product when it comes to coal. The rates are low because of oversupply (of barges), and I don’t see it easing. I see it worsening. I think we’ll see more consolidations in the industry. Not everyone will survive.” WEATHER WOES Extreme weather also played havoc on the industry. In the fall, the problem was low water levels due to dry weather. That gave way to freezing temperatures in December and January,
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INCREASED COSTS The industry sees a clear “disconnect” between the president’s words and his budget and infrastructure proposals. Mike Toohey, president and CEO of the Waterways Council, an industrysupported advocacy group for waterways funding, argues that commercial operators and shippers would be the only ones expected to pay more for the nation’s river transportation system, while other beneficiaries — fishermen, boaters, hydroelectric plants and municipal water plants — would pay nothing. On top of that, he said, barge operators agreed two years ago to a 9-cent-per-gallon increase, to 29 cents a gallon, in the diesel fuel tax that pays for half the cost of improvements. “We work hard in this industry, and shouldn’t shoulder the debt of the entire waterways system that benefits the nation,” said Michael Somales, president of Murray American Transportation, Monessen, Pa., which operates barges and towboats on the Monongahela and Ohio rivers. If Congress accepts the plan as proposed, transportation costs would rise for shippers, Toohey said. This could increase the costs of barging on the rivers and drive commodities to other already clogged transportation modes like highways and railroads, or result in a shift of business to competitors in places like Argentina and Brazil that are modernizing their river systems. So far, lawmakers contacted by the industry are receptive to changes in the president’s plan that the industry seeks, Toohey said. In particular, he said lawmakers liked the idea of transferring
a portion of the roughly $1.5 billion in revenues from the sale of hydropower generated at government dams into the IWTF for waterways improvements. He said hydropower is a major user of the rivers. At the Waterways Council’s January meetings in Washington the day after the infrastructure plan was released, Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Ind., said that there’s still a long way to go before the plan becomes law. “I look at this as a starting point in the negotiations,” he said. The final product “won’t look like what he’s requested.” Rokita sits on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, one of the 12 panels that will review the plan. As a committee member, he said he would oppose any lockage fees or new taxes that discourage waterways transportation. Despite an improving national economy, the industry continues to face a volatile market hampered by an oversupply of barges. Progress has been made over the past year to find more of a supply-demand balance. Both the liquid and dry barge fleets have been trimmed through sales or retirements (helped along by high scrap prices), consolidations and a reduction in newbuilds. But the overall fleet is too
Over the past year, emergency closures and delays at many locks and dams throughout the system caused operational headaches for companies. Locks and Dams 52 and 53 were closed for emergency work. Both operate with technology that dates to 1928. These locks will be replaced by the Olmsted Locks and Dam Project, which is scheduled to partially open later this year. www.workboat.com • APRIL 2018 • WorkBoat
and flooding in February. Ice accumulations affected parts of the inland waterways system that normally operate year round, including areas of the Illinois, Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Many barge companies temporarily suspended operations on portions of the Illinois and Ohio Rivers. There were reports of normal 15-barge tows being reduced to six-to-ninebarge flotillas. For the first two weeks of January, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that grain barge tonnages were 63% lower than the same period last year. “We’ve had two months of some of the most difficult operation conditions that I can remember,” said Peter Stephaich, CEO of Campbell Transportation Co. Inc., Houston, Pa. “The problems have been weather-related, not the market like a few years ago. Now we have high demand, but are unable to move things efficiently. A lot of locks are shut for different reasons, loading and unloading facilities can’t operate, and boats can’t go under bridges due to high water. On the positive side, a lot of stockpiles are down and we have pent up demand” to deliver products that haven’t been able to move due to high water. Weather aside, there are still too many barges chasing demand where Campbell operates on the upper Ohio River, but there will be opportunities for barges to haul construction components for new ethane plants coming on line in the region. The company’s business was once dominated by coal hauling along the upper Ohio, but is now more diversified. Stephaich said Campbell’s plan to diversify its product movements away from coal is moving along steadily, and the movement of liquids for third parties continues to grow. IMPROVEMENT? Some companies are already seeing signs of a market turnaround, however, and are hoping that predictions for strong growth in 2018 will boost the barge business. Houston-based Kirby Corp, the
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All equipment in ACBL’s fleet that’s available to work is working, the company says.
nation’s largest tank barge operator, reported stronger financial results at the end of 2017 than the previous year, buoyed by strong utilization and demand in its inland market. High utilization — in the low-to-mid-90% range during the fourth quarter compared to mid-80% a year ago — was due to improved demand from the petrochemical and crude sectors, and also from a significant reduction in Kirby’s tank barge fleet. At the end of 2017, it had 841 barges with 17.4 million bbls. of aggregate capacity, compared to 876 active barges of similar capacity a year earlier. More retirements are expected in 2018. “While parts of the marine transportation segment remain challenged, the inland business should begin to improve in 2018 as the industry right sizes and consolidates,” Joe Pyne, Kirby’s chairman, said in a quarterly earnings call with analysts in January. A big step toward consolidation in the liquid sector occurred in February when Kirby announced the $149 million acquisition of Higman Marine Inc., also of Houston, and its 159 inland tank barges and 75 towboats. Kirby said it will retire an additional 15 older tank barges from Higman’s fleet. Improvements have also been seen in the dry cargo sector. “Every piece of equipment we have that’s workable is working, and we’ve seen an increase in just about all commodities, especially in export coal,”
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said Mark Knoy, president and CEO of American Commercial Barge Line LLC (ACBL), Jeffersonville, Ind. “It feels so different than it did four months ago, in a good way.” Among the factors are crop problems in Argentina that will mean strong markets for U.S. grain exports, a pickup in demand for U.S. export coal, supply constraints into Europe, and a boost in the steel and energy markets, especially with new ethane plants coming on line. River Transport News reports that imports of major dry commodities through New Orleans saw a modest increase during the fourth quarter of 2017, up 7.8% over the same period the previous year. Just about all this increase was due to bigger volumes of steel commodities. “All of these things together drive more utilization of the barge fleet and create more equilibrium in supply and demand,” Knoy said. “We probably won’t be where we want to be, but we’ll be pointed in the right direction going into 2019.” Another positive note, Knoy said, is that companies and their employees are benefiting from the recently passed tax reform package. “Paying fewer taxes means companies have more to invest and that’s good for an industry like ours that is capital intensive,” Knoy said, adding that employees are seeing more money in their paychecks due to a smaller amount of federal withholding. 47
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CP Coatings’ newest product underwent five years of testing and development before it made the Navy’s qualified product list this past September. The SiloxoShield N-9999 1K is a polysiloxane designed for use as a topside coating on any abovethe-waterline structures. NCP worked with the Navy on its development, including at-sea testing. Though with the Navy as the initial customer, the colors are currently limited: it’s haze gray. SiloxoShield’s performance “is similar to a polyurethane,” said Randy Terrill, the Niles, Mich.based company’s vice president of technology and quality. “But it’s just a one component paint, so there’s no isocyanate hardener that needs to be added with it.” In fact, there’s no hardener at all. That’s what the Navy wanted, a coating that’s easy to apply and “you don’t have to worry about it being mixed properly,” said Terrill. “Throw it in a bucket and apply it.” It can be rolled, brushed or sprayed on. NCP said the SiloxoShield N-9999 1K outperforms silicone alkyds in terms of stability and durability. It should last about five years before a boat has to be hauled, the surfaces prepped and repainted. As Terrill noted, a big portion of a vessel’s repainting bill is not so much the coating as it is the “labor and prep and taking the ship out of
service.” The longevity of the previous paints used on the naval vessels was more “in the two- to three-year range,” he said, so obviously being able to keep a vessel in the water an additional two or three years reduces the maintenance bill for vessel owners. This isn’t the only time that NCP has developed a new product in cooperation with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. Siloxogrip, a non-skid coating, was introduced to the commercial market in 2014. It replaced the traditional epoxy nonskid and is composed of inorganic silicone and organic elements. It has a life expectancy of five years. TIME SAVER Sometimes it’s hard to justify the downtime for needed paint work. Can you really tie the boat up for the time that’s required? However, there are paint coatings that improve your chance of completing a paint job on time while also reducing operating costs. That’s the case with Sherwin-Williams’ SherLoxane 800, a polysiloxane coating for anything above the waterline. A major advantage of SherLoxane 800 is that it allows you to “eliminate a coat of paint and speed things up,” said Mike Vollman, director of sales, marine coatings, for Sherwin-Williams in Cleveland. A single coat takes the place of an epoxy and www.workboat.com • APRIL 2018 • WorkBoat
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NCP’s SiloxoShield N-9999 1K being rolled on the hull of the Navy’s USS Essex.
polyurethane topcoat, while Sher-Loxane 800 over a zinc primer replaces the three-coat system of primer, epoxy and polyurethane. Nothing is lost in terms of coating thickness. “One coat will go on as thick as two coats,” Vollman said. “It will give you color fastness when it comes to sunshine and protection because it goes on anywhere from five to 10-mils thick.” The process is shortened since SherLoxane 800 only requires two-and-ahalf to three hours of drying time. “The normal drying time is six to eight hours to overnight,” said Vollman. Eliminating a coating — while retaining the corrosion and chemical resistance of the multiple coating systems — and knocking down the drying time reduces product and labor costs. Sher-Loxane 800 has been marketed as a high-gloss finish coating but Sherwin-Williams is in the process of putting together a semi-gloss product.
that utilizes raw material from sheep’s wool for sustained fouling control. That helps make Intersleek 1000 very smooth, making it hard for underwater organisms to adhere to the coating. And with reduced drag a vessel “tends to experience very good fuel savings,” said John Mangano, International Paint’s regional marketing manager for North and South America in Houston.. A benefit of Intersleek 1000 tied directly into the fuel savings is the chance to be eligible for carbon credits, where each ton of carbon dioxide that’s prevented from entering the atmosphere equals one credit. As a rough measurement, each ton of fuel that’s not burned is equal to about 3.3 tons of carbon. In effect, a vessel owner that utilizes carbon credits can be rewarded for lowering both a vessel’s greenhouse gas emissions and ocean acidification by investing in cleaner technology. While few vessels in North America
In either case, Sher-Loxane 800 is formulated without isocyanates and has less than 100 grams of VOC per liter, allowing it to meet stringent environmental regulations. CARBON CREDITS A biocide-free foul-release paint with some interesting possibilities is International Paint’s Intersleek 1000, which is sometimes referred to as Intersleek 1001. Intersleek 1001 is the finish coat in the Intersleek 1000 foul release system. A key ingredient of the paint is International Paint’s Lanion technology
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An example of the panels that might be mounted on a hull to generate UV lighting for eliminating fouling like that shown.
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you need records of the vessel’s fuel performance and consumption. Then at, say, the five-year haul out the biocide antifoulant is removed and replaced with Intersleek 1000. International Paint gets the fuel records for the previous five years and then starts collecting fuel usage data once the boat is back in the water, which is then compared with the previous five years. Based on carbon offset certification standards from Switzerland’s Gold Standard Foundation, the fuel data is “independently checked, verified and audited” to make sure “there was a fuel savings,” said Mangano. International Paint gives you the fuel credit and “you can do whatever you want with it: offset your emissions, pass it on to customers or sell it on the open market for a monetary value.” International Paint will also help a customer sell the credit through brokers. International Paint is reportedly the only coatings company to offer this carbon credit program. In 2023 expect to see a first of its kind fouling prevention technology from International Paint that offers a drastically different alternative to biocide-based coatings. It’s still in the development stages but it will be a fouling prevention hull coating using ultraviolet light-emitting diodes. The development of the new antifoulant is a combination of the surface coating technology of AkzoNobel, International Paint’s parent company, and UV-LED lighting and electronics from Royal Phillips. UV lighting will be emitted from the hull coating, which will provide “the total prevention of biofouling accumulation on the surface of the protected area,” according to AkzoNobel. The company expects the UV-LED lighting technology “to completely revolutionize the fouling control industry.” This is from the company that provided the marine industry’s first biocide-free antifoulant — Intersleek in 1996, which AkzoNobel said, has saved “over $3 billion of fuel and 32 million tons of CO2.” 49
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