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Island Tug and Barge Christens First of Two Tugboats ber 28, during an afternoon ceremony at ITB’s headquar- ters in Burnaby, British Columbia. The Island Raider, along with its sister the Island Regent (delivery February, 2019), was designed by Robert Allan Limited naval architects and marine engineers of Vancouver, B.C. to be paired with

ITB’s double-hulled oil tank barge, the ITB Resolution, as an articulated tug and barge (ATB). Constructed on-site at

ITB’s Annacis Island facility along the Fraser River in Brit- ish Columbia, the Island Raider was designed with consid- erable emphasis on crew comfort and endurance. By incor- porating Sika vibration and sound dampening