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38 MN December 2010

PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS

Coast Guard and Michael Bohlman,

Chairman of CSA. Capt. Jonathan

Wood, skipper of the Volans, accept- ed awards on behalf of Foss.

Great Lakes Shipyard Builds

Barges for Corps of Engineers

Great Lakes Shipyard of Cleveland,

Ohio completed construction and delivery of two new barges for the

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The barges will be used to perform critical maintenance and inspections of lock and dam facilities on the upper

Mississippi River. One of the barges will service Lock and Dam 16 in

Illinois City, Ill. while the other will service Lock and Dam 18 in

Gladstone, Ill. Great Lakes Shipyard, a division of The Great Lakes Towing

Company, operates a full-service shipyard and drydock in Cleveland and specializes in all types of marine construction and repairs. The compa- ny is currently expanding its capabili- ties for new vessel construction, repairs and for aluminum and steel fabrication. The company recently placed an order for a new 700-ton mobile boat hoist. This will be the largest of its type on the Great Lakes, including both U.S. and Canada, and the second largest in North America.

KKMI Christens the Marine

Travelift Haully Green Giant

San Francisco Bay-based KKMI has purchased a Marine Travelift 50

BFMII mobile boat hoist for its new

Sausalito boatyard facility, sister to the original KKMI location in Point

Richmond. The new facility is designed to preserve the integrity of

Sausalito’s working waterfront; to showcase KKMI’s best management practices, especially in the arena of environmental compliance; and to offer top-quality professional services to local boaters. According to CEO

Paul Kaplan, every aspect of the oper- ation needed to be compatible with these goals, and that included the new Marine Travelift mobile boat hoist. KKMI worked closely with

Marine Travelift’s engineers as they developed the new hoist, which incorporates recycled aircraft tires. Its hydraulics run on mineral-based biodegradable oil and the machine’s

Cummins Tier III diesel engine uses biodegradable fuel.

Dann Marine Towing Upgrades Power

Dann Marine Towing, with a fleet of 17 tugs, operates out of its home- port of Chesapeake City, Md. and tows along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts as well as to South and

Central America. Dann Marine has recently put their 100-ft by 32-ft tug Gulf Coast back into service fol- lowing a major refit that included swapping out a pair of 1,200 hp engines for a pair of 1,600 hp Cummins QSK50 engines. The repower involved modifications to the engine foundations and cooling system all of which was carried out at the Lyon Shipyard in Norfolk, Va. The ABS load- lined model bow tug is fitted with an Intercon DD200 towing winch loaded with 2,000 ft of two-inch cable and 305 ft of 1.5-inch wire. It carries tanks for 81,385 gallons of fuel and 5,268 gallons of potable water.