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WORKBOAT NAMES ITS Funding hits record levels for inland waterways BOAT OF THE YEAR
Here are the other nine winners: Cindy L. Erickson, Chris Reeves, Jerry Jarrett (Z-Drive Towboats) Owner: Marquette Transportation Co. Builder: C&C Marine and Repair Designer: CT Marine Clean Jacksonville (LNG Bunker Barge) Owner: TOTE Maritime Builder: Conrad Industries Designer: Bristol Harbor Group (barge)/ GTT (LNG cryogenic membrane) Douglas B. Mackie (tug) (Suction Hopper Dredge ATB) Ellis Island (dredge) Owner: Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. Builder: Eastern Shipbuilding Group Designer: Ship Architects Inc. (tug) Enhydra (Hybrid Tour Vessel) Owner: Red and White Fleet Builder: All American Marine Designer: Teknicraft Design
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Marine 24 (Fire/Rescue Boat) Owner: Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection See SIGNIFICANT BOATS page 3
Left to right: Joe Hudspeth, Joe Burgard, Matt Mullett, Ron Wille, Casey Ohms
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orkBoat recognized the 10 Significant Boats of 2018 and named its Boat of the Year at an awards ceremony at the International WorkBoat Show Thursday morning. The 2018 Boat of the Year was the Enhydra, a 600-passenger hybrid tour vessel built by All American Marine for Red and White Fleet. Designed by Teknicraft Design, the Enhydra is BAE System’s third and largest boat to be powered with its hybrid system, called HybriDrive. “The system is fully automated, it assesses the power loads, both hotel loads and propulsion loads, and completely manages the use of available power,” said Joe Hudspeth, BAE’s marine marketing manager. “It draws upon the batteries as much as possible until it needs additional power from the diesel generators.” BAE’s variable-speed generators also serve as starting motors for the two Cummins QSL9 diesel engines, rated at 410-hp each and operated with biofuel.
ffshore wind energy development is moving apace in the Northeast and the Gulf of Mexico can be a source of boats and skills for the new industry. Despite early doubts about the Trump administration’s attitude toward wind power, “we are seeing absolutely no slowdown,” but a move to streamline the permitting process, said Ross Tyler, executive vice president and co-founder of the Business Network for Offshore Wind. Tyler spoke Thursday at the International WorkBoat Show in New Orleans, the same day that wind developer Equinor announced it will move ahead with plans for a its Boardwalk Wind project on a federal lease off New Jersey. The nation’s first commercial offshore wind array, built by Deepwater Wind at Block Island, R.I., used foundations
from Gulf Island Fabrication, Houma, La., and liftboats from Montco Offshore, Galliano, La., for installation. “What we would like to see is more of the expertise held here move to this market,” said Tyler, whose group includes U.S. industrial suppliers who could help develop the wind industry. “There’s a market there and we can be a conduit.” Offshore wind could be one market for the Gulf of Mexico’s stacked OSV fleet, said Wei Huang, director of global offshore for the American Bureau of Shipping. — Kirk Moore
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The 2018 Boat of the Year, the hybrid tour vessel Enhydra.
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he inland waterways have enIn fiscal 2018, the budget hit a record joyed two consecutive years of $6.85 billion, allowing for completion strong funding from Congress, of the much-delayed Olmsted project which helped with the comand for improvements to the pletion of the Olmsted locks Lower Monongahela River and dam project in Illinois, in Pennsylvania, the Kenand funding for other projtucky lock and the Chickaects to improve efficiency of mauga lock in Tennessee. river transportation, Michael The budget hit another reToohey, president and CEO cord for the current fiscal of the Waterways Council 2019, with nearly $7 billion said at the International Michael Toohey appropriated. In addition, WorkBoat Show Thursday. record levels were made for “We have been able to operation and maintenance make $8.8 million in capital improveof the inland waterways system, and ments so we can continue to compete none of the budgets include a plan by internationally,” Toohey told Inland the Trump administration to impose Waterways and Passenger Vessel Pronew taxes, fees or tolls on the barge gram attendees. “The world is coming industry. Toohey said the 2019 budget to the United States (for its food supply), also included an important change: a and we are preparing to feed the world.” new cost-sharing arrangement to speed Meeting this demand will involve modup the Chickamauga project from the ernizing the nation’s antiquated and uncurrent 50/50 split between the Inland reliable system of locks and dams. Waterways Trust Fund and the federal Progress has been stymied for decades treasury, to 85% federal and 15% trust by inconsistent funding from Congress fund. The barge industry supports the and certain policies at the Army Corps fund through a 29-cent-per gal. diesel of Engineers, but with a new funding difuel tax. rection, progress has taken a remarkable Assuring that the funds are spent on turn for the better. the waterways is a top priority because Toohey said both the fiscal 2018 and “there is a great temptation in Congress 2019 federal budgets for the Corps’ to spend trust fund money on other procivil works programs, which funds wagrams, and if we don’t advocate, that’s terways improvements, have hit record what will happen.” — Pamela Glass levels.