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Bollinger Delivers

Bouchard Barge

Bollinger Gretna, Harvey, La., a

Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. company, has delivered, B. No. 280, a double hull, 80,000 BBL oil tank barge built to meet the requirements of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA'90), to Bouchard Coastwise

Management, Corp., Hicksville, NY.

Following the delivery of the B. No. 280, Bollinger announced the signing of the sister ship, B. No. 282. The B. No. 282 will also be built at Bollinger Gretna, along with the previously announced 110,000 BBL, B. No. 205, a black oil barge measuring 430-ft. long, with a 79- ft., beam and a depth of 34 ft. Additional- ly, Bouchard has awarded Bollinger a 35,000 BBL barge, B. No. 233, which will be built at Bollinger Marine Fabricators in

Amelia, La. Terms of the contracts were not disclosed.

The B. No. 280 is a clean oil barge mea- suring 399-ft. long, with a 74-ft. beam and a depth of 28-ft. The barge is coupled with an existing Bouchard tug, Rhea

Bouchard, using the Intercon coupler sys- tem. While the B. No. 280 was in the final stages of construction, Bollinger Algiers,

L.L.C., retrofitted the Rhea Bouchard with the Intercon system, regulatory recertification and completed a re-power- ing of the vessel.

USMI Celebrates a

Double Delivery

On Friday April 14, United States

Marine, Inc., (USMI), celebrated the delivery of two of their 36-ft. NSW RIBs to the United States Special Operations

Command, USSOCOM, marking the 99th and 100th craft delivered by USMI to

USSOCOM to date. This delivery marked a number of very special occasions, including USMI's first scheduled deliver- ies since hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This celebration also marked the first deliver- ies of new craft from their new Gulfport,

Mississippi facility. Powered by a pair of 470hp Caterpillar 3126 diesel engines dri- ving a pair of Kamewa water jets, the

NSW RIB performs at speeds in excess of 40 knots.

EBDG Provides

Support for

Landing Craft

Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) has added two more projects to its portfolio, furthering its experience providing pro- duction support to landing craft vessels.

The Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering firm delivered pro- duction support detail drawings for

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Following the delivery of Bouchard's B. No. 280 from Bollinger Gretna and the delivery of the tug

Rhea Bouchard from Bollinger Algiers, the ATB set sail for Texas and its first load of cargo bound for the U.S. West Coast.

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