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www.workboat.com • SEPTEMBER 2022 • WorkBoat 1 FEATURES 16 Focus: Labor Pains Inland operators continue to have difficulty finding and retaining qualified workers. 20 Vessel Report: Independence Autonomous technology promises increased safety. 28 Cover Story: Military Muscle Gulf Coast shipyards stay busy with military work. BOATS & GEAR 22 On the Ways • Blount Boats delivers 94' buoy tender/icebreaker to the state of Maryland • Delaware Bay Ship Building delivers 45' research vessel to New Jersey operator • New switch/transportable barge for Michigan • TOTE and Philly Shipyard cut steel for third national security multimission vessel • Austal USA awarded contract to build up to 11 360' offshore patrol cutters for the Coast Guardn a 32 Muddy Deposits Matching fuel systems with the right fuel additives can avoid costly ATproblems.AGLANCE 8 On the Water: Donʼt be a galley creature — Part I. 8 Captain’s Table: Customer service and finding employees. 9 Energy Level: Will Houston be the next hydrogen hub? 10 WB Stock Index: WorkBoat stocks jump 8% in July. 10 Inland Insider: A bigger federal share for inland projects? 11 Nor’easter: New plans for offshore wind development. 12 Insurance Watch: Professional liability insurance coverage. 12 Legal Talk: Remedial measures. NEWS LOG 14 $20 million in grants awarded to small shipyards. 14 Hill, pioneer of the ATB, dead at 69. 14 DOT focuses on future maritime workforce. Content DEPARTMENTS 2 Editor’s Watch 6 Mail Bag 36 Port of Call 43 Advertisers Index 44 WB Looks Back 2016 SEPTEMBER 2022 VOLUME 79, NO. 9 ON THE COVER Austal USA in Mobile, Ala. Austal USA photo

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Those words may not be exactly what Ray Kinsella heard in his Iowa corn eld in the 1989 movie “Field of Dreams”, but the outcome has been almost as amazing. In the movie, Kinsella hears an other-worldly voice tell him that if he builds a baseball eld “he” will come. “He” turns out to be Ray’s dead father, as a young man, returning to play in Ray’s Field of NowDreams.you would be hard pressed to nd a corn eld in Mobile, Ala., especially one near a shipyard. And as far as we know, none of the brain trust at Austal USA hears voices. But somebody knows a good idea when they hear it. Austal USA is a world-class aluminum shipbuilder, built primarily on the backs of two U.S. Navy contracts — the 421'6"×103.7' Independencevariant littoral combat ship (LCS) and the 338'×93'×12' expeditionary fast transport (EPF) vessel.

“We’ll be the only shipyard that can build aluminum and steel combatants,” saidNewBell.steel construction at Austal USA includes the shipyard’s rst Coast Guard contract — a $3.3 billion agreement for the detail design and construction of up to 11 offshore patrol cutters. And then there are two Navy contracts worth approximately $300 million and $128Suchmillion.afast start might have some of Austal USA’s competitors hearing voices.

The shipyard’s Ray Kinsella moment came when its brain trust decided that what worked for aluminum could also work for steel.

In March 2021, the shipyard broke ground on its $100 million steel production assembly line facility right next to its aluminum MMF. Production began in April. Mike Bell, senior vice president of operations, said the shipyard is bringing its lean manufacturing processes and facility design to the steel shipbuilding market. These processes have helped deliver 24 ships to the Navy in the last nine years.

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The shipyard’s 700,000-sq.-ft. aluminum module manufacturing facility (MMF) is a modern, hypertechnological facility with a production line that produces a ship that’s 85% complete when it nishes its trip across the building.

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Offshore wind farms have both advocates and skeptics, but both sides must agree that the wind does not blow 24/7. I realize that press releases and quotes from interviews cannot be changed. So, in the interest of accurately reporting what wind farms can contribute to the electrical grid, I respectfully suggest that WorkBoat refrain from characterizing them as “capable of generating X megawatts and powering X many homes” in staff written coverage of this topic Bruce Pfund Special Projects LLC Westerly, R.I.

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Identifying those who care about providing good customer service I’m sitting here on my patio in South Louisiana, enjoying our freedoms on Independence Day and reading my July issue of WorkBoat Capt. Bernstein’s At A Glance column (July WorkBoat, page eight), “Customer service: attitude matters,” is spot on. I, too, deal with inspectors and auditors, and I can tell immediately those who care and know the true importance of the work. Thanks for having the guts to write it as you see it.

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If you show a sincere interest and effort to learn, it will go a long way towards motivating others to make an effort — above and beyond the call of duty — on your behalf. Regardless of your background, you are owed nothing — absolutely nothing. Make that your mantra.

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U.S. businesses continue to struggle to find em ployees. It is particularly acute in the maritime sector. Passenger vessel operators have been forced to eliminate cruises due to employee shortages, while shoreside businesses struggle. The maritime industry has an additional con straint. Its workers must have licenses and in most cases a Transportation Worker Identifica tion Credential (TWIC). In normal times, these requirements would just be part of the job. But the industry is experiencing severe delays in license processing at the Coast Guard’s National Maritime Center (NMC). Some of this, I’m told, is due to license extensions, granted during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, that are now due for renewal. Some of it is also blamed on staff short ages and virtual work arrangements at the NMC. I understand the challenges the NMC faces, but I am extremely concerned about the problems this cre ates for mariners and their employers.

An example is my son Ben’s struggle to renew his TWIC. Ben, a licensed master, contacted the TWIC office to schedule his renewal. He was given an appointment three weeks later and was unavail able to stand a watch he had been doing for almost 20 years. To make matters worse, the TWIC office apparently lost his information and another three weeks passed. Ben finally received his TWIC after a two-month delay. How does a mariner continue to work and support his family under these condi tions? Are we driving prospective employees to other industries as a result? Mariners deserve a more efficient system.

To all recent graduates of two- or four-year programs at maritime academies or other training institutions: your attendance and “achievements” do not constitute already having “paid your dues.”

Along time ago, an old captain of mine had a great term for crewmembers who could reliably be found in the galley if they were not otherwise immediately and unavoidably occupied performing a specific duty. He called them “galley creatures.”Thesecrewmembers were typically parked in front of the television almost full-time. They often had very little interest in, or even a basic aware ness of, what was going on around them. It was amazing to pull this off in the typically highenergy environment of New York Harbor. Galley creatures, by definition, would not let career ambi tions and gaining valuable knowledge and experi ence get in the way of, say, watching an episode of the “Jerry Springer Show.” Are these “creatures” merely watching for entertainment, or are they dreaming of auditioning for the show themselves? Who knows?

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The important point is that for anyone who desires to advance beyond being an OS deckhand, the early portion of one’s career should not be entirely spent watching television, going down the infinite number of internet rabbit holes, or “gam ing” on your Knowledgesmartphone.andexperience are something you must extract from your activities and surroundings. It is not a passive process. You will not magically gain knowledge and experience through osmosis. Nor does anyone “owe you” anything unless you consciously meet your obligation to be a willing and active learner.

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I am currently trying to renew my license and dealing with some medical issues which may com plicate the process. I contacted the Coast Guard to ask some simple medical questions and to help me through this complex process. A subcontractor is handling these matters. While understandable, the subcontractor did not answer phone calls. So, I left a voice mail as instructed. The subcontractor’s re corded message said that I would receive a response from them within seven days. Is this acceptable? If I told my customers that I would return their calls within seven days, my company would be out of business. I have spoken with several mariners from across the U.S. who have had similar problems. Our mariners deserve better customer service. The Coast Guard and the NMC must deal with this problem immediately. It is seriously affecting the lives of U.S. mariners while also compromising our industry’s ability to conduct business.

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The national infrastructure legislation enacted last November earmarks some $21.5 billion for renewable energy demonstration projects, said Kelly Cummins, acting director of the DOE’s newly established Of ce of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED). “Hubs are seen as foundations that could eventually lead to a national hydrogen network,” said moderator Frank Wolak, president and CEO of the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy AssociationWhile(FCHEA).regional work is underway in California, the East Coast, Ohio River Valley and elsewhere, Perlman said Houston is best positioned as a “clean hydrogen hub” since the area already is a leading “gray” hydrogen and renewable energy producer. Though hydrogen is clean burning, the extraction process can generate signi cant CO2 emissions. So-called gray hydrogen is extracted from natural gas in a carbon-intensive process, while at the furthest end of the color spectrum, “green” hydrogen is pulled from water in a climate-neutral process. “The combination of physical and intellectual assets and the cluster of companies we have is an example of what Congress was looking for in terms of creating a regional approach,” he said. “We also have the nation’s largest network of hydrogen pipelines and a concentration of academic and industry-driven innovations.” To point, University of Houston researchers in May claimed to have made signi cant inroads in ongoing efforts to produce green hydrogen from seawater. Detailed in a paper published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, their work entailed the development of “multimetallic electrocatalyst” to create “high-performance seawater electrolysis.”

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www.workboat.com 9 AT-A-GLANCE Houston is shaping up as a dominant player in the push to bring hydrogen into the nation’s clean energy mix.“We believe Houston is the epicenter of what could be a very exciting hydrogen hub that could expand to the entire Gulf Coast region,” Brett Perlman, CEO of the nonpro t Center for Houston’s Future, said as part of a panel exploring the role of regional hydrogen hubs during a Reuters webinar in July. “We’re already an energy capital and have a lot of the assets already.” Developing hydrogen as an economically viable clean energy source is among the initiatives spearheaded by the Department of Energy (DOE) to achieve the Biden administration’s ambitious net zero emissions goals.

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The WRDA bills would also create an in land waterways dredging pilot program to conduct demonstration projects and award contracts of up to five years for dredging on inland rivers. The goal is to improve navigation reliability and in crease freight capacity on the waterways, accord ing to the Senate bill.

WorkBoat stocks rebound in July, gaining 222 points In July, the WorkBoat Composite Index rose over 222 points, or almost 8%. For the month, winners topped los ers by more than 3-1. Kirby Corp. was up over 4% in July. The Houston-based inland tank barge operator reported second-quarter rev enue of $698 million and earnings of 47 cents per share, compared to 2021 INDEX NET PERCENT COMPARISONS 6/30/22 7/29/22 CHANGE CHANGE Operators 377.50 400.68 23.18 6.14% Suppliers 3,973.86 4,397.93 424.07 10.67% Shipyards 4,238.11 4,287.31 49.20 1.16% WorkBoat Composite 2,856.95 3,079.02 222.07 7.77% PHLX Oil Service Index 66.29 68.15 1.86 2.81% Dow Jones Industrials 30,775.40 32,845.13 2,069.73 6.73% Standard & Poors 500 3,785.38 4,130.29 344.91 9.11% For the complete up-to-date WorkBoat Stock Index, go to: www.workboat.com/resources/workboat-composite-index

second-quarter revenue of $560 million and earnings of 17 cents per share. In the company’s July 28 earn ings call, David Grzebinski, Kirby’s president and CEO, said inland marine transportation enjoyed strong results as high refinery utilization led to a steady improvement in demand with the company’s overall barge utiliza tion increasing into the low 90% range. Tight market conditions, in part due to the limited supply of barges, continued to put upward pressure on prices, “with spot prices up approximately 10% sequentially and mid-teens year-overyear.”“In summary, despite significant in flationary and supply chain challenges in the quarter, our second-quarter re sults reflected continued improvement and market fundamentals for both seg ments,” Grzebinski told analysts. “The inland market is improving nicely, demand is strengthening and rates are moving higher. While the coastal market remains challenged by industry supply dynamics, our barge utilization is good and we realized modest rate improvements.”Grzebinskiadded that the company was “very excited” about the outlook for one of the company’s newest busi ness lines, Kirby Offshore Wind — David Krapf CHART Source: FinancialContent Inc. www.financialcontent.com BY GLASSPAMELA

The cost-share adjustment is a top priority for the Waterways Council and the American Wa terways Operators.

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Inland waterways construction and rehabilitation costs are shared by the federal government and the barge industry, which pays a 29-cents-per-gallon fuel tax into the IWTF.

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In a July 7 letter to chairmen and ranking mem bers of the House committees that oversee water ways funding and policy, 75 members of Congress urged inclusion of the provision in the final bill. They wrote that the new cost-share formula “is paramount to ensuring reliable inland waterways transportation and will help the nation address growing concerns regarding supply chain efficien cies and emissions in the transportation sector.”

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Barge industry seeks bigger federal share for projects Congress is close to approving a key change in an important cost-sharing formula that will make more money available and expedite comple tion of navigation projects along the inland waterways.Language that would permanently adjust the in land waterways cost share to 75% from general revenue and 25% from the barge industry funded Inland Waterways Trust Fund (IWTF) is included in the Senate version of the 2022 Water Resources and Development Act (WRDA) that passed a Sen ate committee in May. The new formula would take effect on Oct. 1. However, the version of WRDA that passed the House on May 18 does not include the cost-share change.Once the Senate acts on its bill, it will be up to a House-Senate conference committee to reconcile differences between the two WRDA versions and put forward a final bill. Waterways advocates are hopeful that lawmakers will include the new split.

The cost share was 50-50 until Congress ad justed it to 65-35 in 2020. The formula had been changed once before to 85-15 in 2014 to speed completion of the long-delayed Olmsted Locks and Dam project along the Ohio River in Ken tucky. The current cost-share formula is set to expire in 2031.

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Speaking from a podium on the old coal plant site, Biden said it used to generate “the kind of pollution that contributed to the climate emergency we’re in now.”

“Today Brayton Point is on the frontier of clean energy,” he said. In a speech peppered with references to construction jobs, shipbuilding and new manufacturing, he called the old power plant site an example of future economic opportunity. “When I think clean energy, I think jobs,” said Biden.

Biden directed Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to move forward on planning wind development off the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. The path was cleared for that by the House of Representatives, which passed an amendment to the 2023 Defense Spending Authorization Act to rescind a Trump-era moratorium on all Southeast offshore energy leasing.

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Nearly 1,150 sq. miles in the western Gulf of Mexico are proposed for offshore wind energy areas (WEAs), as Biden said he would do everything within his executive powers to act on climate issues and developing cleaner energy.TheDepartment of Interior and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced a public comment process July 20 for the two new draft WEAs. One located about 24 nautical miles off Galveston, Texas, covers 546,645 acres and potentially could be developed to power 2.3 million homes, according to BOEM.

“We see it in America, in red states and blue states,” said Biden, “seeing 100-year droughts happening every few years” and massive damage from hurricanes. “This is an emergency and I’ll look at it that way.”

“We’re going to make sure the ocean is open for the clean energy of our future, and everything we can do to give a green light to wind power on the Atlantic coasts where my predecessor’s actions only created confusion,” said Biden.

The second WEA about 56 miles south of Lake Charles, La., covers 188,023 acres with development potential to power 799,000 homes, according to the agency. The cumulative effect of climate change “is de nitely a clear and present danger,” Biden said that same day at Brayton Point in Somerset, Mass., where the old coal- red generating site is being redeveloped to manufacture power cables for Vineyard Wind and other projects off southern New England.

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Biden’s ambitious agenda for reducing carbon emissions foundered with opposition from Republican lawmakers and Democratic holdout Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Short of declaring a full-blown “climate emergency” as activists demand, the administration pushed out new plans for offshore wind development in the South.

Mid-July heat waves nationwide put 100 million U.S. residents in 90 degree-plus temperatures — and jacked up the political temperature for President Biden to do more on climate change without a consensus in Congress.News media coverage of recordsetting temperatures in the U.S. and Europe sparked a frenzy of social media dueling between climate action activists and skeptics. But that failed to move the needle on public opinion polls that showed voters far more worried about gas prices and in ation.

Do you need professional liability insurance coverage? A long time ago, when I was captain of an old wooden sailing vessel, I was bringing the boat into the harbor to tie up to the dock, something that I had done several times before.

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This time, when I put the engine in reverse to stop forward movement, the boat went ahead. I was quickly losing room in the congested harbor, so I tried again to put it into reverse, but to no avail. A wooden tour boat tied up ahead of me finally stopped my movement, resulting in season ending damage to the boat.

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Daniel J. Hoerner is a Bland,Mouledoux,attorneymaritimewithLegrand & Brackett LLC. He can be reached at 504-595-3000 com.dhoerner@mblb.or Lessons learned from an accident, injury or property damage loss, no matter how devas tating, give you a chance to take steps to prevent similar incidents from happening again.

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Coverage can include defense costs, civil as well as criminal, coverage for fines and penal ties, as well as a daily subsistence allowance. Loss of income can be added to compensate for lost wages due to down time resulting from a claim.Whether you are driving a six-pack harbor taxi or a blue water tanker, your livelihood requires that you hold a valid Coast Guard license.When you are involved in a claim involving your license, professional liability coverage can both help alleviate the headache of defend ing yourself and help take care of some of the defenseDiscusscosts.professional liability coverage with your marine insurance agent before you need this kind of protection.

Thus, fixing a condition or making a change to a place or thing cannot be interpreted as an admis sion that these were deficient prior to the change.

However, the “subsequent remedial measures” rule does not provide for the exclusion of evidence of post-accident changes in all situations. Evidence of an after-the-fact remedial change can be used for other reasons, such as establishing control over the property or equipment at issue, the feasibility of eliminating the cause of an accident or loss, and to acknowledge a duty to take care of certain safety measures if the party responsible for such actions claims that it could not have done anything beforehand to prevent the harmful event. Evidence of a subsequent remedial measure can also be of fered to impeach the testimony of a witness who might argue that the pre-existing condition was appropriate or otherwise not a factor in causing the accident, injury or loss.

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While my vessel’s hull and P&I policy took care of the damage claim, the Coast Guard felt that I had been derelict in my captain duties and wanted to conduct an admiralty hearing against my license. I now needed professional liability insurance coverage.Typically used by attorneys, accountants, consultants and real estate brokers, professional liability provides coverage against claims made against professionals who have not performed up to the standards of their profession. This type of liability coverage is also available to li censed mariners. Should a claim occur, and the captain be deemed negligent, he or she could be sued in addition to the vessel.

The Federal Rules of Evidence and similar state laws add further incentive to take such corrective action by preventing such actions from being used against the responsible party. Generally, when steps are taken that would have reduced the chanc es of an earlier injury or loss, evidence of such “subsequent remedial measures” is not admissible to prove negligence or fault with respect to the accident giving rise to the change. The rationale behind this prohibition to potentially powerful and probative evidence is that public policy should encourage people to take steps to further enhance safety and mitigate future chances of harm or loss.

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NEWS LOG 14 www.workboat.com • SEPTEMBER 2022 • WorkBoat DOT awards $20 million in grants to small shipyards News Bitts

• The Great Lakes Towing Co., Cleveland, $781,627, to support the purchase of tooling and equipment to improve shipyard operations.

• Detyens Shipyards Inc., North Charleston, S.C., $566,617, to support the purchase of new electric re pumps.

he Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (Marad) has awarded $19.6 million in grants to 24 small shipyards in 19 states. Grant recipients (with the grant amounts) include:

• ST Engineering Halter Marine and Offshore Inc., $1.15 million, to support the purchase of an electric “green” blast and paint booth project.

• Safe Boats International LLC, Bremerton, Wash., $716,983, to help modernize its facility by acquiring an 80-ton self-propelled vessel transporter, new aluminum welding equipment, and mobile lifting equipment including a large forklift, scissor lift, and extended reach forklift.

• Blount Boats Inc., Warren, R.I., $937,933, to purchase a telehandler, a pair of three-ton overhead cranes, a forklift, and four scissor lifts.

• Arcosa Marine Products Inc., Caruthersville, Mo., $869,951, for panel line improvements and welding equipment.

• Chesapeake Shipbuilding Inc., Salisbury, Md., $1.1 million, to support the purchase of a plasma table, 30-ton mobile Marine Travelift crane, CNC 250-ton, and a 14' CNC press brake.

The Maritime Administration (Marad) announced in July that it is accepting applications for Centers of Excellence (CoE) designations. Centers recognize and support community or technical colleges and maritime training centers that prepare people for careers in the maritime industry. More information on eligibility, selection criteria and application guidance is available in the Federal Register or contact Gerard Wall wall@dot.gov or 202-366-7273.at gerard.

• Shaver Transportation Co., Portland, Ore., $649,638, for a new shipyard electri cation project, 18-ton pedestal-mounted electric crane and installation of a solar energy system.

• Ice Floe LLC/Nichols Brothers Boat Builders, Freeland, Wash., $1.23 million for the purchase and installation of a one-sided welder.

StewartDoug Shipyard grants will help yards modernize, increase productivity, and expand local employment opportunities while competing in the global marketplace, Marad says.

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• Gladding Hearn Shipbuilding, The Duclos Corp., Somerset, Mass., $949,899, to support the purchase of a set of hanging shop doors, a 35ton self-propelled boat transporter, and a one-ton overhead crane.

Hill, pioneer of the ATB, dead at 69 Naval architect and marine engineer Robert Hill of Bellingham, Mass., died July 14. He was 69. Born in Troy, N.Y., in 1952, he grew up there. He relocated to Massachusetts to pursue his career and raised his family in Bellingham, where he lived for nearly 50 years. An accomplished naval architect and marine engineer, Hill was the founder and president of Ocean Tug & Barge Engineering, based in Milford, Mass. His work focused on the development of the articulated tug/ barge (ATB). Many of the workboats he has designed continue to ply U.S. waters. For his lifetime achievement in the industry, Hill was named a distinguished Fellow of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) in 2015. “In our industry you think of successful thinkers and there would be Robert Allan, Bob Hill, Ed Shearer,” said CT Marine’s Corning Townsend, whose name could also be on that list. “He was a leader of a whole new concept — articulated tug and barge.” DOT focuses on future maritime workforce

• Fincantieri Marine Group LLC, Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay, Wis., $1.2 million, to support the modernization of its graving dock pumps.

• Patti Marine Enterprises Inc., Pensacola, Fla., $1.2 million, to construct a new 800-ton drydock.

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Faced with a generation of older workers retiring, a new generation that knows little about maritime careers, and coming off an infusion of federal aid during the pandemic that kept people at home while drawing bene ts, barge companies are having to be creative and proactive to ll vacancies. They are increasing their presence at job fairs and on social media (posting on TikTok is a current favorite), venturing far beyond their local areas to drum up interest in waterways careers, hiring professional recruiters, increasing pay, expanding training, and making pitches to a more diverse applicant pool. according to AWO CEO and President Jennifer Carpenter. With labor shortages across all sectors nationally, barge companies must compete with other industries that offer good salaries, signing bonuses and no time away from home. Barging “is an essential sector with strong implications for national secu-

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On top of the challenges in nding people is the high cost of paying new recruits and existing workers. Operators say they are being hit with high labor costs at a time when barging is just starting to make a comeback and company pro ts are fragile. Some barge companies have had to turn down work because they are shortstaffed.Andthere’s general agreement among operators and others who track the industry that the situation isn’t likely to get better anytime soon. Labor challenges were on everyone’s mind at a meeting of the American Waterways Operators in May,

Anational, pandemic-infused labor shortage has made an already tough hiring environment in the maritime industry even worse, sending inland barge companies into recruiting overdrive and setting off alarms about whether the industry will have enough workers now and in the future as demand for barging rebounds.

Capt. Jason Martin and tankerman Anthony Laneaux carry their bags oﬀ of CTC’s 3,150-hp towboat Champion during a crew change.

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Inland companies struggle to hire during national worker shortage. Pamela Glass, Washington Correspondent

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He said companies leaving the barging business didn’t invest in training because they had an exit plan in place.

That, Golding acknowledges, is something that will be hard to change given the unique nature of how the barge business operates.

Campbell Transportation new hires after they ﬁnished orientation.

The labor shortage has forced operators to take a hard look at how they operate, from retooling hiring initiatives and reviewing salaries to the comfort of their vessels. One approach is to beef up training programs that offer new hires broader opportunities for well-paid, long-term career advancement rather than emphasizing a job with a good paycheck. Campbell Transportation Co. Inc. (CTC), a Houston, Pa.-based barge line that moves coal and liquid products along the inland system and the Gulf of Mexico, has invested in its in-house steersman training program that will put deckhands through a long training process so they can get their license. “From day one, when an employee starts, there’s now more frequent opportunities to move up and enhance their training,” Kyle Buese, Campbell’s president, said in an interview. “We take care of the training. People don’t want to get stale in their careers or feel like they are getting stale. More frequent career development plans are needed. Those things have worked for us. He added that today’s new vessels offer much more comfortable accommodations and living spaces, good communications technology and a much better onboard experience. “The vessels themselves and the comforts are leaps and bounds from what they were 20 years ago,” Buese said. “They are very comfortable, very crew oriented.

A lot of these boats have a nicer kitchen than in a hotel or a house. You’ve got to make them a place where people want to CTCbe.” has also hired a full-time professional recruiter with years of industry experience who is focused on nding the right candidates and properly screening them, Buese said. This has meant bee ng up the company’s presence on social media, attending recruiting forums and educating potential recruits about the lifestyle on an inland vessel, which many acknowledge is not for everyone with the physical demands and a work schedule that includes long absences from home.

18 www.workboat.com • SEPTEMBER 2022 • WorkBoat FOCUS Labor embracing, but the cost of people is pushing the unsustainable limit,” said Austin Golding, president and CEO of Golding Barge Line, Vicksburg, Miss., a tank-barge operator that moves re ned petroleum and chemical products. “In our industry, it’s gotten there from a lot of consolidation, which means less focus on long-term things like training people.”

The industry is also learning that it needs to reach out to a far more diverse pool of potential applicants than it has in the past — notably minorities and women, both of which make up an increasingly larger slice of the U.S. population.Companies are reaching further from their home base to meet with job seekers, are partnering with maritime training schools and are talking up the profession to high schoolers and even youngerGoldingstudents.Barge is searching beyond its base in Vicksburg, deep into rural areas of the Southeast to reach potential recruits, emphasizing long-term salary and career opportunities. “If you sit around and wait for people to come to your door, you’ll be in a bind,” Golding said. “We used to have 20 to 40 in a stack of applications to go through all the time. Now we only have a handful that have been cultivated from a proactive movement. We made it a priority to go nd people. We go to civic centers, hotels, conference rooms and to small towns across the Southeast, setting up our own booths and advertising online and locally at job fairs. We’re moving very off the waterways, the more trees the better. You have to show them and hold their hands. We’re not advertising what they will make the day they take the job, but what they’ll make if they stick with the job for ve years.”Still, the problem of convincing people to take a job that keeps them away from home for long periods still persists. “The work-life balance is the number one thing they cite. It’s never the pay or the strenuous nature of the work. It’s always the work-life balance.”

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“We weren’t making enough money to pay for the training that we’ve traditionally done on our boats. During the downturn in the industry, part of the cost cutting measures were training and part of the cost-cutting is coming back to bite us, as there are not as many people who have been trained and the demand is up and we’re short of people.”

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Dixie Vandal accident was recounted in the NTSB Safer Seas Digest 2020 along with two other fatiguerelated accidents. Fatigue, which impacts decision-making, reaction time and comprehension, has been a longstanding issue in the commercial marine sector. The accident highlighted a potential weak spot in any vessel. It’s the individual in the wheelhouse, charged with maintaining a constant situational awareness of the vessel and everything around it. Autonomous vessels, with integrated control systems and sensors, don’t get fatigued and have long held the promise of more ef cient and safer navigation and fewer accidents.

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In June, Sea Machines Robotics introduced one of the most recent examples of autonomous technology’s ongoing evolution at Seawork in Southhampton, England, the largest European commercial marine exhibition. There Sea Machines unveiled AI-ris (arti cial intelligence recognition and identi cation system), which uses digital cameras and AI processing to detect, track, classify and locate obstacles ranging from containerships to something as small as a swimmer, kayaker or animal in the water.

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At 4 a.m. on March 15, 2019, the Dixie Vandal was pushing a partially loaded fuel barge upbound through the Houston Ship Channel when it veered off course and struck the moored barge Kirby and its 1,400-hp towboat Trinity The cause? Fatigue. The pilot had been on watch for 10 hours of his 12hour shift and did not recall making the course change before falling asleep. There were no injuries. Damages came to The$630,230.

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Sea Machines’ AI-ris uses digital cameras and AI processing to detect, track, classify and locate obstacles ranging from containerships to something as small as a swimmer, kayaker or animal in the water.

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A mine countermeasure unmanned surface vehicle (MCM USV) is recovered onboard the USS Manchester (LCS 14) during an operational test and evaluation in June 2021.

On another level and taking autono mous vessel technology a step further by bringing waterjet propulsion to the forefront of 21st century navigation, Sea Machines Robotics and HamiltonJet introduced JETsense at the 2021 International WorkBoat Show in New Orleans. JETsense combines Sea Machines’ autonomy platform with HamiltonJet propulsion systems and vessel“JETsensecontrols.is the first product in the 21 Sea Machines and HamiltonJet have combined to create JETsense. It uses the Sea Machines autonomus platform with HamiltonJet’s waterjet propulsion. Pictured is a HamiltonJet test boat outfitted with the JETsense platform.MachinesSea

In April, Bollinger Shipyards an nounced that it is building mine coun termeasure unmanned surface vehicles (MCM USVs) for the Navy designed to detect and destroy undersea mines. The MCM USV will replace the Navy’s It’s all done much quicker and in a more thorough manner than if your ves sel depends on having someone con stantly checking the radar and looking out wheelhouse windows. Al-ris relies on optical sensors and AI processing that continually scans the surrounding water to locate and clas sify other vessels or objects, be it day or night, and then alert the operator. “AI-ris integrates with the vessel’s MFD to showcase what the system detects, classifies and tracks,” said Sea Machines marketing director Vanya Banjac.AI-ris calculates the range and bear ing of each target, whether it’s floating or fixed. Each target is then assigned an ID, and a guard zone radius is created around each target. An alert signal is released if your vessel enters the guard zone.“With the ability to detect, classify and geolocate such targets via optical sensors, Al-ris augments and surpasses the capabilities of existing marine sensor technologies, like radar and AIS,” said Sea Machines CEO Michael Johnson in a press release.

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Autonomous Vessels Avenger-class minesweeping ships and the MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopters. Initially three vessels will be built, though there could be options for 24 additional vessels and a contract poten tially worth $123 million. Most of the work will be at Bollinger’s Lockport, La.,Thefacility.Bollinger contract is one of the most recent moves by the Navy to develop fleets of large and medium-size USVs.Back in 2019, the Navy solicited large unmanned surface vessel (LUSV) design proposals for autonomous navigation and afloat strike missions. The designs combined current warfare systems with commercial technology platforms. The unmanned vessels would have to be able to operate with manned warships for at-sea combat. The LUSVs would work by remote control and meet international regulations for avoiding collisions.

JETsense works with HamiltonJet’s AVX electronic controls. Together they are designed to reduce onboard workload and increase safety. In the commercial marine market, JETsense is viewed as a good product for “fast mov ing applications, for example, the ferry market,” said Banjac.

A year later, in 2020, six companies (including Bollinger) were awarded twoyear contracts potentially worth $59.5 million to conduct studies for the Navy’s LUSV development program. In May, the Navy established the Unmanned Surface Vessel Division for the Pacific Fleet. It’s designed to be “the catalyst for innovation as we employ unmanned surface capabilities in the Pacific fleet,” Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener said in a statement. “The implementa tion of unmanned systems will increase decision speed and lethality to enhance our war fighting advantage.” market to incorporate Sea Machines’ ad vanced vision package,” said Ben Reed, HamiltonJet’s managing director. “It pairs onboard autonomy with enhanced situational awareness in a way that is highly desirable in many manned appli cations. We prioritized helm integration and the ease-of-use for mariners.”

Tankage includes 1,987 gals. of fuel and 1,000 gals. fresh water.The electronics suite was supplied by Cay Electronics, while on deck the boat is fitted with a MERCAL FL20T4 knuckle boom crane.

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CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY AT WORKBOAT YARDS Blount Boats delivers buoy tender/ icebreaker to Maryland

The boat will serve as the primary icebreaking asset for Crisfield Harbor and Smith Island in Maryland.

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Blount Boats Inc., Warren, R.I., delivered the steelhulled 94'×27'×10' buoy tender/icebreaker Eddie Somers in May to the Maryland Department of Natu ral Resources. The boat, designed by BMT Designers & Planners Inc., Arlington, Va., has a 4'6" draft and a 157-LT displacement.Theboatwill serve as the primary icebreaking asset for Crisfield Harbor and Smith Island, in addition to placing buoys and performing additional functions. “As with the (J. Millard ) Tawes, the Somers will also be a lifeline to Smith Island when the waters surrounding it freeze over, with the boat clearing a path for supply and shuttle boats,” said Julie Blount, the shipyard’s executive vice presi dent. “By cooperative agreement with Virginia through the U.S. Coast Guard, the Somers will also provide the service to Tangier Island in Virginia when requested. During heavy ice seasons, all food, fuel, medicine, and emergency transport going to and from the islands are supplied by the vessel.” Main propulsion comes from twin Cummins QSK19, Tier 3 diesel engines, producing 750 hp at 1,800 rpm, supplied by Cummins Northeast. The mains hook up with Michigan Wheel 42"×27", 5-bladed nibral props through Twin Disc MGX-5202SC marine gears with 2.48:1 reduction ratios. The propellers come from New England Propeller and the gears from North Atlantic Power Products. The propulsion pack age gives the new boat a running speed of 10 knots (loaded) at 1,650 rpm and a top speed of 12 knots.

The steering system is a Jastrom B2-76-400-1-35 and the controls are Twin Disc EC300s (three stations).

Ship’s service power is the responsibility of two Cummins Onan gensets, producing 55 kW of electrical power each.

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In July, TOTE Services LLC and Philly Shipyard Inc. celebrated the cutting of steel for the third national security multimission vessel (NSMV) destined for the Maine Maritime Academy. The 524’×88.6’ NSMVs will have drafts of 24.6', speeds of 18 knots, and berths for 760 people. The Maritime Administration’s (Marad) NSMV program will provide purpose-built, state-of-the-art training platforms for state maritime academies in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Texas and California. In addition to providing world-class training for future U.S. mariners, these five NSMVs will be available to support humanitarian assistance and disaster relief missions in times of need. The third NSMV is contracted for delivery to Maine Maritime, Castine, Maine, by the end of 2024. Austal USA has been awarded a contract worth a potential $3.3 billion for the detail design and construction of up to 11 360’ offshore patrol cutters (OPC) for the Coast Guard. The award marks Austal USA’s first Coast Guard acquisition program and follows the company’s recent award of their first competitive steel shipbuilding contract, the Navy’s auxiliary floating drydock medium (AFDM).

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524' multimission vessel for Maine Maritime.ShipyardPhilly closure on the sinking of a submarine in 1920 and working with the Air Force to nd a plane lost in 1962. “Next year, we will be working with some people from Italy on the Andrea Doria site.” (The Italian ocean liner sank in 1956, killing 46 passengers. More than 1,700 passengers were rescued.)

The Explorer’s main propulsion comes from twin Cummins QSM-11 diesel engines, producing 670 hp at 2,300 rpm each. The mains connect to Acme 32"×33" wheels through ZF VEE drives with 2.037:1 reduction ratios. The propulsion package gives the new research vessel a top speed of 27Forknots.additional maneuverability, the Explorer was tted with a Kobelt KP10A-H-TH 10” thruster unit.

The OPC program is the Coast Guard’s highest investment priority. It will recapitalize the aging endurance cutters and provide a capability bridge between the service’s national security cutters (NSC) which operate in the open ocean and the fast response cutters which operate closer to shore. Austal USA will build the OPC using its ship manufacturing processes and production methods that incorporate lean manufacturing principles, modular construction, and moving assembly lines in the company’s new enclosed steel production facility. The OPCs will provide a major oﬀshore presence for the Coast Guard’s cutter 45' research vessel for New Jersey built by Delaware Bay Ship Building D elaware Bay Ship Building, Leesburg, N.J., recently delivered the 45'×15'6"×6'4" aluminum research vessel Explorer to Research Vessel Explorer LLC, Rustin Cassway, Cape May, N.J. With a 58" draft and a deadweight tonnage of 50,000, the new shipwreck research and salvage vessel was designed, built, and commissioned to be the “best shipwreck exploration vessel for a private client ever made,” said Capt. Rustin Cassway, one of Research Vessel Explorer’s managing partners. The vessel lines were developed by Mike LeMole of LeMole Naval Engineering, Tuckahoe, N.J., and then put into 3-D by Stephen Pollard of Specmar Inc., St. Helens, Ore. The Explorer went from initial welding to completion in under 12 months and is currently engaged in shipwreck exploration on a weekly basis, including working with families to give them

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ON THE WAYS ﬂeet and will be capable of conducting a variety of missions including law enforcement, drug and migrant interdiction, and search and rescue. With a range of 10,200 nautical miles at 14 knots and a 60-day endurance period, each OPC will be capable of deploying independently or as part of task groups and serving as a mobile command and control platform for surge operations such as hurricane response, mass-migration incidents and other events. The cutters will also support Arctic objectives by helping regulate and protect commerce and energy exploration in Alaska.

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Fincantieri Marine Group’s former general manager, Marco Galbiati, became its new CEO effective July 6. Former CEO Dario Deste will remain with the company as president. 98'6" tugs will have a bollard pull of 52 metric tonnes. 42'6" pilot boat for the Lakes Pilots Association, Port Huron, Mich.

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Master Boat Builders Inc. will build a fourth new tugboat at its Coden, Ala., shipyard for Bay Houston Towing Co., Houston. Master Boat currently has three tugs under construction of a different design for Bay Houston. Robert Allan Ltd. designed the tugboat, which will meet Coast Guard Subchapter M regulations and be classed through the American Bureau of Shipping. The 98’6”×42.6” tug will produce a bollard pull of over 52 metric tonnes. It will feature two Caterpillar main engines (3516E), EPA Tier 4 certified and each producing 3,500 hp, along with two Schottel Z-drive thrusters (SRP 510FP), and a Markey Machinery bow winch (DEPCF-48). Master Boat will build an almost identical new tug for Houstonbased Suderman & Young Towing Co. The new tug was also designed by Robert Allan and will have the same bollard pull, meet the same Subchapter M regulatory demands, and feature the same Cat 3516Es, Schottel Z-drive thrusters, and Markey Machinery bow winch. Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) announced recently that its Ingalls Shipbuilding division has been awarded a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for engineering and design from the Navy for the next-generation guided-missile destroyer (DDG(X)) program. Ingalls Shipbuilding is a major contractor and shipbuilding partner in the Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) program that has been in production for three decades. Arleigh Burkeclass destroyers are multimission ships that can provide offensive and defensive capabilities and can conduct a variety of operations, from peacetime presence and crisis management to sea control and power projection. In May, Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corp., delivered a new 42'6" pilot boat, Huron Pride, to the Lakes Pilots Association, Port Huron, Mich. The Resilient-class high-speed launch is the Lake Pilots’ third boat built by the Somerset, Mass.-based shipyard since 1979. Designed by Ray Hunt Design, the jet-driven, all-aluminum launch measures 42’6”×13’ and has a 2’6” draft. The deep-V hull features a steep 24° deadrise at the transom that increases to a very fine entry forward. A flat chine and multiple spray-rails provide an efficient running surface and deflect spray away from the collar to produce a dryer ride and reduce collar maintenance. The perimeter of the launch is fitted with a large foam-collar fendering system. A heavy-duty pipe guard is installed across the transom, along with a platform above the launch’s waterjets.

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A UT-TECH-AMS has delivered a 28'×8'6"×3' switch/ transportable barge to Switch Barge LLC, Oxford, Mich. The new barge, Switch Barge, is expandable for easy deployment to lakes, rivers, or emergency services, and has an 18" draft and weighs 13,000 lbs. Switch Barge was started, “to provide service capabilities of marine construction on inland lakes and sheltered coastal waters which include but are not limited to, seawall construction and maintenance, permanent dock building, rip rap and shoreline retention,” said one of the company’s owners, Dan Dendel. The narrow design allows Switch Barge to access dif cult to reach areas. “With an initial beam of 8'6" and draft of 18" the switch barge is an ideal vessel for shallow workspaces and natural disaster recovery areas,” said Dendel.

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Switch Barge can be deployed out to 20' in width for added stability.

craneMainoperation.propulsion comes from a single 115-hp Honda outboard, and the barge’s service power is the responsibility of a 37-hp Kohler genset. Switch Barge is also tted with Fassi controls and a hydraulic power steering system.

“Switch Barge can be brought into areas that other barges or emergency vehicles cannot reach because of varying water levels.”

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The steering system is made up of Burkhardt Welding rudders, two Vickers hydraulic pumps, Kobelt rams, and Char Lynn helm. Controls are the responsibility of Glen Denning Tankage includes 600 gals. of fuel, 100 gals. water, and 14 gals. hydraulic uid.The electronics suite features three Garmin chart plotters, cameras, 48mile radar, auto pilot, and Zipwake trimAncillarytabs. equipment includes Coltri 5000 PSI scuba compressor, Pal nger PC-2300 crane and hydraulic bow winch.Theboat is USCG approved OUPV (six-pack license) and was delivered in June.

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Bollinger's FRC design is based on the Damen Stan Patrol Boat 4708. Main propulsion comes from twin MTU 20V4000 M93L diesel engines, producing 2,900 hp each. The shipyard delivered the 49th

Military vessels are rolling out of Gulf Coast shipyards.

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Bollinger delivered the 49th FRC, Douglas Denman, in May.

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The U.S. military always needs new vessels. There is usually never a point at which the Navy, Coast Guard and even the Marine Corps, Air Force and Army, say, “Okay, we’re good for now.” That’s because military vessels are in constant use, and they usually wear out faster than a commercialLuckily,boat.there are plenty of U.S. shipyards ready to build whatever boats or ships these agencies need. And because of the Jones Act, they must all be built in the U.S., with many of them built in Gulf Coast shipyards. Cordova, Alaska-based ReconCraft is not a Gulf Coast business, but something that its production manager Kurt Boardman said about building for the government applies nationwide. Commenting on the yard’s just completed 12-boat contract for U.S. Customs and Border Protection's 21'×8'6" riverine shallow draft vessel (RSDV), Boardman said that the CBP program “is a perfect example of the success realized when industry and government collaborate to design and manufacture

Some shipyards along the Gulf Coast have been building military vessels for decades. They know what the government wants and expects. One of those yards, Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, La., has been building the Coast Guard’s 154'×25' fast response cutters for over a decade. FRCs have a ank speed of 28 knots, a C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) suite, and a stern launch and recovery ramp for a 26' over-the-horizon interceptor cutter boat.

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FRC, Douglas Denman, in May. It was the 175th boat Bollinger has built for the Coast Guard in the past 35 years. When President Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act this year, it included a $130 million increase for two additional FRCs, continuing the program beyond its 64-vessel program of record. It was the second time Congress authorized the building of additional FRCs beyond the original 58“Bollinger-builtvessels. fast response cutters are continuing a long tradition of exceeding all expectations in mission effectiveness, endurance and capability,” according to Skip Bowen, the shipyard’s vice president, government relations. Eastern Shipbuilding Group Inc. (ESG), Panama City, Fla., has a contract to begin construction of the fourth Heritage-class offshore patrol cutter (714)666-2150marketing@willardmarine.com

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The OPC is forming the backbone of the service’s future eet around the globe. ESG, in collaboration with its partners, produced the winning design of the OPC and was awarded detail design and construction of the rst hulls in 2016, beating out the likes of Vigor, VT Halter Marine, Ingalls Shipyard, Marinette Marine, NASSCO, Bollinger, and General Dynamics

The new OPC designs re ect cuttingedge technology and will replace the Coast Guard's 270' and 210' mediumendurance cutters, which are becoming increasingly expensive to maintain and operate.Eastern's design of the 360'×54' OPC calls for a draft of 17', speed in excess of 22 knots, a range of 10,200 nautical miles (at 14 knots), endurance for 60day patrol cycles, and the capacity to carry an MH-60R or MH-65 helicopter, and three over-the-horizon (OTH) cutter boats. The OPC’s missions will include law enforcement, drug and migrant interdiction, search and rescue, and other homeland security and defense operations. Each OPC features a ight deck and advanced command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance equipment.Thissummer, however, Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., was awarded a contract with a potential value of $3.3 billion for the detail design and construction of up to an additional 11 OPCs for the Coast Guard.Theaward marks Austal USA’s rst Coast Guard acquisition program and follows the company’s recent award of its rst competitive steel shipbuilding contract, the Navy’s auxiliary oating drydock medium (AFDM).

MORE VARIETY Down the road in Pascagoula, Miss., Ingalls Shipbuilding is con structing the Coast Guard's 418'×54' Legend-class national security cutters (NSC). Ingalls is the sole designer and provider of the cutters, which cost about $670 million each. NSCs, which draft 22'6", are capable of embarking and supporting a wide range of Coast Guard, Navy and NATO manned and unmanned aircraft. NSCs have proved to be successful platforms for drug in terdiction, illegal fishing enforcement, disaster relief and defense support operations.Mainpropulsion for the NSC comes from twin MTU 20V1163 diesel engines and a GE LM2500 gas turbine that combine for a total of 39,900 hp and give the ship a running speed of 28 knots. Ship’s service power is the re sponsibility of three Caterpillar 3512B gensets.TheNSC isn’t the only government contract Ingalls is working on. The yard has so much military work that in July it announced plans to hire 2,000 additional workers.

In March 2021, Austal broke ground on its $100 million steel production assembly line facility right next to its 700,000-sq.-ft. aluminum module manufacturing facility. Steel production began in the spring of 2022. Mike Bell, Austal USA’s senior vice president of operations, said the ship yard will bring its proven lean manu facturing processes and facility design to the steel shipbuilding market. These processes have helped deliver 24 ships to the Navy in the last nine years. “We’ll be the only shipyard that can build aluminum and steel combat ants,” said Bell. Vessel construction is underway.Whilethe shipyard can’t control the rising cost of steel, its close proximity to a steel mill will help keep the trans portation costs down. “We’ve got a steel mill 40 miles away from us,” said Bell.

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Austal USA was also awarded a $144 million contract from the Navy last year for two towing, salvage, and rescue ships (T-ATS). The contract award marked the first steel new ship construction program for the shipyard. Then, last month, the Navy awarded Austal a $156 million contract op tion for the construction of two more Navajo-class T-ATS. The T-ATS will provide oceangoing tug, salvage, and rescue capabilities to support U.S. fleet operations and will be a multimission common hull platform capable of towing heavy ships. These ships will be able to support current missions, including oil spill response, humanitarian assistance, and wide area search and surveillance. The platform also enables future capability initia tives like modular payloads with hotel services and appropriate interfaces. Austal has been a prolific builder of aluminum fast warships for the Navy for two decades. From its humble be ginnings in the late 1990s, the yard has blossomed into a world-class shipbuild er, primarily on two Navy contracts — the 421'6"x103.7' Independencevariant littoral combat ship (LCS) and the 338'x93'x12' expeditionary fast transport (EPF) vessel.

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Austal USA will build the OPC using its ship manufacturing processes and production methods that incorporate lean manufacturing principles, modular construction, and moving assembly lines in its new, state-of-the-art en closed steel production facility, the company said.

The OPC program is the Coast Guard’s highest investment priority. It will recapitalize the aging endurance cutters and provide a capability bridge between the service’s NSCs, which op erate in the open ocean, and the FRCs, which operate closer to shore.

Part of the U.S.’s plan to assist Ukraine in better protecting its coast line, waterways and ports, is a range of defense “articles”, including 23 welded-aluminum military vessels built by Louisiana-based Metal Shark

In July, the Navy announced that six of its new 40PB (patrol boat) mari time combat vessels would be sent to Ukraine as part of a $450 million secu rity assistance package. Built by Metal Shark and deliv ered to the Navy in 2021 as part of an

The 360' OPCs will provide the majority of offshore presence for the Coast Guard’s cutter fleet and will be capable of conducting a variety of mis sions including law enforcement, drug and migrant interdiction, and search and rescue. With a range of 10,200 nautical miles at 14 knots and a 60-day endurance period, each OPC will be capable of deploying independently or as part of task groups and serving as a mobile command and control platform for surge operations such as hurricane response, mass migration incidents and otherTheevents.cutters will also support Arctic objectives by helping regulate and protect emerging commerce and energy exploration in Alaska.

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www.workboat.com • SEPTEMBER 2022 • WorkBoat 31 COVER STORY ongoing contract for 50 vessels, these next-generation vessels feature six MK 16 weapons foundations plus a large forward foundation for stabilized, remote operated, optically guided MK 49/MK 50 weapons systems. Ballistic protection enables the 40PB to sustain extended re ghts, allowing crews to respond with overwhelming force while remaining secure and protected from hostile re. At Metal Shark’s Franklin, La., and Jeanerette, La., facilities, production is underway on 17 additional vessels for Ukraine, including 10 38' De ant pilothouse patrol vessels, four 38' De ant center-console patrol vessels, and three 36' Fearless high-performance military interceptor vessels. Each of these boats is a proven military platform optimized for the Ukraine mission. (Bremerton, Wash.-based Safe Boats International is also building patrol boats for Ukraine — six 84.8'×20'6" modi ed MkLastVIs.)spring, Conrad Shipyard LLC, Morgan City, La., announced it had been awarded a $140 million contract by the Navy for the design and construction of up to eight 151'x49'x14' yard, repair, berthing and messing (YRBM) barges. The YRBM barges provide a temporary home away from home and workplace for service men and women whose vessels are in port for repairs and/orConrad’smaintenance.designincorporates functional spaces which allow the sailors to work, sleep and eat comfortably. The xed-price contract has a potential value of over $140 million. SharkMetal

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The result of that combination is clogged fuel lines and higher-than-normal lter replacement while giving you and your boat a reputation for undesirable exhaust emissions.

When things get really bad some companies with larger vessels must have their fuel tanks manually cleaned every couple of years to remove the bacterial infections and sludge Matching your fuel system up with the right fuel additive can avoid such a scenario. It certainly hasn’t been a problem for the vessels of a large coal company in Hong Kong that has been adding Fuel Right’s fuel additives to its vessels’ diesel fuel for the past ve or six years. All the vessels are within the 50,000to 78,000-dwt category and transport coal to major Chinese ports.The fuel additives “puri es the fuel lines and tanks and achieves about a 3.5 percent savings in fuel,” said Carl Magnell of Wilmington, Del.-based Fuel Right. Fuel Right works by depositing a microscopic coating inside fuel tanks, fuel lines, lters, and strainers, which protects the system from corrosion, even when there’s contaminants and water present.

Another test of the bene ts of using Fuel Right’s additives took place without Fuel Right’s initial knowledge, said Magnell. It was by the operators of the tug Naomi Princess that had just been built in China and was being delivered to Lagos, Nigeria, for oil eld work. That’s a distance of 8,218 miles divided into two legs: China to Singapore (3,366 miles) and Singapore to Lagos, Nigeria (4,852 miles), where it would work in Nigerian oil elds. The run from China to Singapore took 15 days. It was made without Fuel Right, at an average speed of 9.78 knots, burning 5.62 metric tons a day in light to moderate sea conditions.

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Fuel Right was brought in to use on the coal ships on a trial basis in 2016. After showing signi cant improvements in cleaner lters, fuel viscosity, and reduced emissions (as well as fuel economy), Fuel Right additives are now used in 43 of the coal company’s vessels, for a $5 million to $6 million annual fuel savings, according to Fuel Right.

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Fuels & Lubricants pore to Lagos. That trip took 22 days at an average speed of 9.5 knots while burning 5.03 metric tons a day in moderate to rough sea conditions. Overall, there was a “one metric ton of MGO fuel savings per day and no visible emissions,” according to the tug’s chief engineer, as quoted on Fuel Right’s website. Magnell emphasizes that Fuel Right not only reduces the amount of fuel burned, but “the other signi cant thing we do is reduce emissions.” That would be about 60% hydrocarbon emissions and 38% particulate emissions. That’s based on an independent study by the faculty of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering at Istanbul Technical University.

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In 2018, the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act (VIDA) went into effect, establishing new standards for vessel discharges incidental to normal operations. That did not include deck equipment, but with its potential for abovewater discharges, deck equipment has become a focus of the Environmental Protection Agency. That includes lubricant discharges from machinery such as booms, jibs and cables extended over the side of a boat as well as lubricants that leak onto the deck and are then washed overboard.Thus“there’s the possibility of including deck equipment” under VIDA regulations, said Brandon Richards, Panolin America’s CEO. If that happens VIDA will be expanded beyond the oil-to-sea interfaces found with marine gear such as thrusters, stabilizers and rudders. The likelihood that deck equipment will be included in the next iteration of VIDA is driving the growth of environmentally acceptable lubricants (EALs). The lubricants would need to meet three criteria, according to a proposed VIDA ruling: they must be “biodegradable, minimally-toxic and not bioaccumulative.” The “use of EALs is basically growing,” said Richards, noting that “biodegradable lubricants are our (Panolin’s)Thatniche.”“niche” might explain why Panolin is the only company to have its environmentally acceptable hydraulic uids gain approval from the Bosch Fuel Right 30K Super Concentrate.

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they heat up in a hydraulic system and start “cooking,” Richards said. “You get varnish and shellac and clogging of lters, but the price point is a lot lower,” he said. Though there’s a savings on the upfront cost, “they pay more for the equipment failures and downtime.”Incontrast, EALs such as those from Panolin are speci cally designed to avoid such issues.

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Rexroth Fluid Ratings List, which, after extended testing, recommends the best uid solutions for individual application types against international standards.Tomeet the growing demand for EALs, Panolin introduced a new product line, HLP SYNTH E. (The “E” stands for eco label, indicating it conforms to environmental standards.)

Panolin’s HLP SYNTH E is a synthetic, biodegradable hydraulic uid of saturated organic compounds, called esters, with special additives. It’s designed to prevent the formations of deposits and gumming, even at high operating temperatures. The new biohydraulic uid is fully compatible and mixable with Panolin HLP SYNTH and is available in various viscosities, including 15, 22, 32, 46 and 68. It complies with the European Ecolabel andRichardsVIDA/VGP.acknowledges that saturated esters “are the most expensive,” PanolinPanolin’s HLP SYNTH. but at the same time, he said, “they are the most reliable and highest performance.” Still, vessel operators that aren’t familiar with different types of biodegradable oils “are often making a decision on price.” That may mean using a product that compromises their equipment and turns into a leak, which may cause an oil spill. That could be the case with vegetable-based or unsaturated oils when

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42 www.workboat.com • SEPTEMBER 2022 • WorkBoat PORT OF CALL Employment, Equipment & Services We custom build every shade to fit each window in our facility. Contact: Edward Kass III | 504-615-5833 | ekass@solarboatshades.com | www.solarboatshades.com We are a Custom Manufacturer of Wheelhouse Tinted Shades & Crew Quarter Blackout Shades Download our order form to purchase your shades today. Now Manufacturing and Installing Fire Retardant Bunk Curtains They are Incredibly durable, driven by over-sized clutches and operated by a stainless steel pull chain. We offer measurement and installation services in Southern Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. We carry $5,000,000 workers’ compensation, and liability insurance policies with U.S.L.&H. and the Jones Act. MARINE GEAR / SUPPLIES / SERVICES Become a Certified and Accredited Marine Surveyor Fishing Vessel Qualified. Complete course and examination for all vessel types and uses. 1-800-245-4425 or navsurvey.com Uses: Pontoon boats, house boats, workboats replace old steel or aluminum pontoons Heavy Duty: Molded from sturdy, medium density polyethylene (MDPF) and filled with polyurethane foam for increased stability Modular: Each bow, middle and stern modules are 10 ft. in length Displacement at full submersion : Bow module supports gross weight of 3,100 lbs. and middle/stern each supports 4,200 lbs. Toll Free: www.plasticpontoon.com877-456-2531 5602 Sea Grapes Way The Village, FL 32163 Phone: 419 675 info@wilsonpontoon.com0002 36-inch Diameter Modular Plastic Pontoons TheBestIdea SincetheIndianCanoe

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• The former Radcliff Materials oyster shell steam dredge Gull Wing, which operated in Mobile Bay, Ala., for many years, will soon begin a second career as a nightclub. The Gull Wing was recently purchased by two people from Mobile, Ala., who have moored it just off Battleship Parkway near Spanish Fort, Ala. Stripped of its machinery, but still sporting its shotgun stack, the Gull Wing has been brightly painted red and white. It is being remodeled into a nightclub.

SEPTEMBER 1982

LOOKS BACK

• Final standards designed to end the discharge of treated and untreated wastes in U.S. waterways have been issued by the Environmental Protection Agency. Approximately 6,000 tugs and towboats are among 600,000 vessels which will be affected by the standards, according to the American Waterways Operators. After several public hearings, the standards were drawn up. The Coast Guard is the enforcement agency.

• Intercity Barge Co. Inc., a new subsidiary of National Marine Service Inc., has purchased two four-barge integrated tows and two 10,000-bbl. barges from Moran Inland Waterways Corp. Intercity Barge is taking over the operations that were handled by Moran Inland on the Ohio, Illinois and Upper Mississippi rivers.

• A Louisiana-based towing company executive and his wife were among the 154 victims of the crash of a Pan American World Airways jet in Kenner, La. Ted Eymard, secretarytreasurer of Eymard & Sons Shipyard and Louis Eymard Towing Co. Inc., both located in Marrero, La., and his pregnant wife Margaret were among the 146 passengers on the jet when it crashed in the New Orleans suburb. Ofcials included the unborn baby in the of cial death count.

• A new 65'×21'×7', 760-hp towboat, the Jacob G, has been delivered by Hillman Barge and Construction Co. to Mon River Towing Inc., Belle Vernon, Pa. The new boat will be used primarily in the petroleum trade on the Monongahela and Ohio rivers. Main engines are Caterpillar D353 Series D diesels.

SEPTEMBER 1962

• McDermott Shipyards, Morgan City, La., recently delivered the El Gallo Grande to Twenty Grand Offshore Inc., a division of Tidewater Marine Corp. The new 126'×34'×16' tugboat is powered by two EMD 16645E6A engines, developing 3,900 hp. Shipboard power is provided by dual Detroit Diesel 125-kW generators.

SEPTEMBER 1972

• St. Louis Shipbuilding and Steel Co. has been awarded a contract by the Ohio River Co. to build a 4,000-hp, 164'×40'×11' twin-screw towboat, the Wm. H. Zimmer

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Vessel Report: Independence

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