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BOATBUILDING DESIGN let them know we’d need to make the uptick in information being shared matter with what they are comfortable tug bigger and they said, ‘as long as about diesel electric and/or hybrid with,” he adds.

it meets my tonnage requirements, no arrangements and/or technology. “A Following its christening, the Earl problem.’ But, we can’t make the tug lot of people don’t like urea – I don’t W. Redd joined Harley’s Olympic any bigger so if in future, the engine blame them. The after treatment sys- tug-and-barge operations along the

OEM needs more space, we may be tem can be large, it is warm; it has all U.S. West Coast, including in Alaska, in trouble from a tonnage regulation kinds of things that we’re not used to. the Puget Sound and on the Colum- standpoint.” He also concedes, “It is So, people are looking at these other bia River. Eventually, at least six and not straightforward. But, I would say opportunities, but we just haven’t seen possibly seven more SCR enhanced, it is less of a headache for us than it as much of it – yet. If you look inter- Tier IV compliant tugs will join the is for the operator. There’s nobody in nationally, it is being deployed.” collective U.S.-