ON THE WAYS CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY AT WORKBOAT YARDS
Intracoastal Iron Works to build methanol-hydrogen workboat
Elliott Bay Design Group
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he search for a readily available, easily transportable, low-carbon marine fuel has borne fruit — methanol to hydrogen to electricity, as needed. The secret sauce is in the first part, getting hydrogen from methanol on board. From there, making electricity from hydrogen in a fuel cell is a welldeveloped process (although not yet for marine use), but getting hydrogen out of methanol, on demand, at scale, is what’s being developed by Maritime Partners LLC, Metairie, La., in conjunction with Oregon-based Element 1 Corp. Together, they formed a partnership called e1 Marine that will supply methanol reformers for the world’s first methanol/hydrogen-powered workboat, an inland river pushboat to be called Hydrogen One. Working with Elliott
Diagram of 90' methanol-hydrogen pushboat fuel system.
Bay Design Group in Seattle, Maritime Partners, e1 Marine and ABB are finalizing the design of a new 90'×43' pushboat that will start construction soon at
Intracoastal Iron Works, Bourg, La. Maritime Partners said that the boat will be available for charter by the fourth quarter of 2023.
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extra platforms and capstans aft for safe and efficient hose maintenance on deck. No additional specifications were released. Bollinger Shipyards and the Coast Guard commissioned one of the service’s newest Sentinel-class
Damen Shipyards
amen Shipyards has signed a contract with Tidewater to provide two Damen Stan Tugs 2309. The tugs will be built at Albwardy Damen Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates and, on delivery in the first quarter of 2023, will both go on charter to a long-standing customer. The 23-meter (75.4') Stan Tug 2309 is a compact and versatile harbor and coastal tug which in its standard format is equipped for towing, mooring and firefighting, with a bollard pull of 40 metric tonnes and approximately 45m² of deck space. Built in series to a standard design, the use of high quality components is designed to ensure low maintenance, maximum fuel efficiency, lower emissions and maximum uptime. For Tidewater and its client, these two vessels have been fitted with additional firefighting capability plus
New Tidewater tugs will be built in the United Arab Emirates.
fast response cutters at the Port of Tampa, Fla. Recently. The cutter John Scheuerman is the fifth of six FRCs to be homeported in Manama, Bahrain, that will replace the aging 110' Islandclass patrol boats, built by Bollinger 30 years ago, supporting the Patrol Forces Southwest Asia. PATFORSWA is the Coast Guard’s largest overseas presence outside the U.S. The Coast Guard took delivery of the 154'x25' John Scheuerman in Key West, Fla., in October 2021. The cutter is the 169th vessel Bollinger has delivered to the Coast Guard over a 35-year period and the 46th FRC delivered under the current program. For the FRC, which has a draft of 9'6", Bollinger is using a proven, in-service parent craft design based on the Damen Stan Patrol Boat 4708. Main propulsion comes
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