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Island. Catalina Express high-speed everybody’s expectations,” says Fran- steady, reliable, newer, cleaner, green- boats were able to move people off co. “And I think the Island people er equipment making their deliveries, quickly, but it was dif? cult to trans- are the real winners here, because and I think they’ll ? nd that it’s really port equipment, reports Bombard, they got a safer and nicer warehouse going to work out for the best for all who has been working with the LA on the Los Angeles side, they have of them.”

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Catalina Provider as an evacuation vessel. “Once you land on the beach and drop the ramp, it’s like you’ve built a pier,” he says. “With the ramp being that long, it makes it very easy access on and off for ? re? ghting equipment and the trucks.”

The tug and barge operation takes care of tasks such as transporting gravel and sand. “We ? nd that the barge is better for that type of service,

Photo: Avalon Freight Services where you can bring a skip loader on or a loader and be able to scrape that stuff off the deck and move it to the shore side a little easier,” says Bom- bard. “That’s worked out to be more ef? cient than dealing with the wood deck that we’ve got on the landing craft. But for all other operations, the roll-on, roll-off, the landing craft works very well for us.”

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AFS has worked in close coopera- tion with Catalina Freight Line (the previous operator) to make the trans- fer of operations as smooth as possible for everyone involved. In fact, AFS hired many employees who worked for

CFL. “Our employee group has been fantastic to work with,” adds Bom- bard. “Going in, they had a good rela-

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