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INSIGHTS electric, EMD T4 solution with urea. Neither design was Guidry’s supply vessels as proof of that. Secondly, we build overly-complex to design. The GE installation is clean and very strong tugs. A class society-minimum tug will never easy to lay out, with great engineering support behind it, as come off our boards here. We know AT/B’s well enough to is the EMD-urea-based setup. American diesel manufactur- know where to put the steel in them. The same holds true for ers in these power ranges have a robust investment in the rail the design and practicality of machinery systems. Finally, and industry and solutions must ? t inside a locomotive carbody, most important, the crews, and owners themselves are con- as both the GE and EMD solutions, do. From my point of scientious, safety-minded people. The safety culture in most view as a naval architect, either the GE or EMD solution is, tug and barge companies is set to the highest standard and engineering-wise, equally easy to do and install. where it is not, I hear about it from the crews. I can say that none of our clients are less than perfectly devoted to safety.

Is the urea storage issue giving ATB’s any problems – es- pecially in terms of the fact that ATB’s tend to have lon-

The dreadful condition of the domestic offshore ener- ger voyages and need robust endurance speci