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Bollinger Builds Tank Barge No. 250 for Bouchard

Bollinger Marine Fabricators, LLC, Amelia, La., a

Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. company, has signed a contract for the new construction of a 55,000 barrel OPA ’90 com- pliant tank barge with Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc.,

Melville, N.Y. The vessel is a manned ocean service, clean oil barge measuring 317.5 ft long, with a 70-ft beam and a depth of 28 ft. The B. No. 250 is a new design especially engineered for Bouchard, built and certified by American

Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and the United States Coast

Guard (USCG). It has twelve cargo compartments and two separate pumping systems, capable of transporting grade A and lower petroleum products. B. No. 250 will be fitted with an Intercon coupling ladder system, dual pump ballast system, two Techcrane hose handling cranes and Coastal marine anchor and mooring winches.

U.S. Barge Combo Deck Tank Barge

U.S. Barge LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vigor

Industrial LLC, delivered a combination deck and tank barge to NorthStar Gas LLC, an Alaskan Petroleum

Distributor. NorthStar Gas and its operating partner,

Delta Western, will use this barge to service customers in

Western Alaska, stabilizing the transportation costs of fuel in the region. Barge Cauneq is capable of carrying up to 200,000 gallons of fuel plus deck freight in waters tribu- tary to the Bearing Sea, Chukchi Sea and Arctic Ocean.

The barge has been certified by the U.S. Coast Guard for carriage of Grade B and lower petroleum products and complies with OPA ‘90 requirements. The main deck is over 3,000 sq ft and can accommodate a minimum of seven ISO standard containers. Barge Cauneq measures 162 ft by 44.5 ft with a depth of only six ft. The shallow- draft design allows the barge to navigate in waters as shal- low as three ft. The engineering and design was per- formed by Elliott Bay Design Group of Seattle, Wash.

BCGP Delivers Two RHIBs to Jordan

Brunswick Commercial and Government Products (BCGP), a division of Brunswick Corporation, recently delivered two 750 Impact rigid hull inflatable boats (RHIBs) to the country of Jordan. The boats will be used for dive and rescue operations. The two RHIBs are each powered by a Cummins 5.9L 355 hp inboard diesel engine and propelled by Ultra Jet 305 water jets. They fea- ture a hydraulically-actuated dive door designed to easily bring injured divers on backboards into the boat for med- ical attention and transport. The dive door was developed by BCGP’s engineering team and is a patent-pending new option available on all BCGP Impact RHIBs. The boat also features a reinforced stainless steel gun mount at the bow for a 7.62mm firearm. At the aft end of each boat, a full-length aluminum swim platform doubles as a jet guard. A FLIR infrared night vision camera is mounted on the T-top.

Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey Launches

RV Shearwater

Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey announced the launch of the multi-use research vessel Shearwater. The addition of this new vessel allows Alpine to expand its offerings of turnkey data collection and other surveying services to off- shore clients, including wind, tidal, civil engineering, shoreline protection, pipeline, oil, and natural gas project

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Image courtesy Bollinger Shipyards, Inc.

Photo courtesy Elliott Bay Design Group

Photo courtesy BCGP