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Miller Boat Line Taps EBDG for Passenger/Vehicle Ferry Design vicing the Lake Erie Islands. The ferry will be roughly 140’ in length with a carrying capacity of 26 standard vehicles and up to 600 passengers. The vessel will be ADA accessible and will feature Tier 3 propulsion technology. Special at- tention was given to design a vessel that enhances onboard passenger comfort and improve the loading and discharge times of both vehicles and passengers. Miller Boat Line,

Inc. operates passenger/vehicle ferries from Catawba Point,

Ohio to Put-in-Bay (South Bass Island) and Middle Bass

Island in Lake Erie’s Western Basin. Miller ferries transport

Miller Boat Line of Put-in-Bay, Ohio has awarded Elliott hundreds of thousands of passengers and vehicles each year,

Bay Design Group with a design contract for a new passen- and are the lifeline to the resort islands. The company was ger/vehicle ferry to supplement their current operation ser- established in 1905, and is family owned and operated.

Chesapeake Shipbuilding Inks Newbuild Deal with Vane Brothers

Chesapeake Shipbuilding has signed another new agree- ment with Vane Brothers of Baltimore, MD to design and build four new Sub-Chapter, M-Compliant, Push

Tugs, yet to be named. This new order will bring the total number of tugs to 20 that have been built by Chesapeake

Shipbuilding for Vane Brothers since 2007. The new 3000 horsepower tugs will be equipped with twin Caterpil- lar 3512 main engines, conventional shafts, rudders and