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Lorraine Hooks

A new new 27-inch cutter suction dredge for Mike

Hooks, LLC has been launched at Southwest Shipyard in

Galveston, Texas.

The Lorraine Hooks, named after the wife of the com- pany’s founder Mike Hooks, will now get a ladder gantry and anchor boom stops, a fresh coat of paint in Houston, and then return to Galveston for equipment install.

Once out? tted and complete, the 300- by 50-foot Lor- raine Hooks, with a dredging depth of 75 feet, will be de- ployed on both coastal restoration and navigation dredg-

Mike Hooks, LLC ing projects in Louisiana and across the region to improve climate resiliency and strengthen maritime infrastructure. monic vibrations and noise. There will be a NOVEC ? re

The dredge will be state-of-the-art, designed to meet the suppression system in the engine room and control rooms. latest industry standards in safety, comfort, ef? ciency, and A cutterhead platform will allow safe operations while main- production. It will house “home-away-from-home” living tenance is performed, and anchor booms will reduce human quarters with A60 ? re rating insulation and constructed on exposure to anchor handling. Operation monitoring dis- vibration mounts to reduce fatigue for the crew from har- plays and tablets will be throughout the dredge and quarters.

Clean Canaveral iary of Seaside LNG Holdings.

The operation marks the ? rst barge-to-ship cool down performed in the U.S. LNG was loaded onto the Clean

Canaveral at the Jacksonville dock of JAX LNG, a joint venture between Seaside subsidiary Northstar Jacksonville and Pivotal LNG, a subsidiary of BHE GT&S. The Clean

Canaveral then transferred approximately 600 metric tons of LNG to cool-down and bunker the tanker Eagle Brasil- ia, owned by AET.

“As expected, the Clean Canaveral performed very well during the bunkering process. The McAllister Towing crew

Polaris New Energy operating the ATB, our vendors, regulatory agencies, JAX-

The Clean Canaveral, a new lique? ed natural gas (LNG) PORT and Polaris worked seamlessly together to ensure we bunker barge operating along the coast of the southeastern were prepared for a successful bunkering,” said Tom Sulli-

U., recently completed its inaugural bunkering in Jack- van, Senior Vice President of Operations for Seaside. “In ad- sonville, Fla. The Clean Canaveral has a capacity of 5,500 dition, the working relationship between AET, its ship-man- cubic meters, making it the largest Jones Act LNG bunker ager, Eaglestar, and the crew on the ATB was key to the safe barge. The vessel operates as an articulated tug barge unit transfer of LNG. We greatly appreciate AET’s con? dence in (ATB) and is owned by Polaris New Energy LLC, a subsid- our ability to safely conduct this inaugural bunkering.” www.marinelink.com MN 41|