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Boats & Barges

Ecomarine USA Offers

Environmental Services

The ECO-llO, a new series of multi-mission environmental vessels commissioned by Ecomarine USA, recently went into service in Miami. Pictured here is an earlier model, the ECO-lOO, at work in Italy.

The first two of a new series of multi-mission environmental ves- sels commissioned by Ecomarine

USA were recently floated off the assembly line at Bollinger Machine

Shop and Shipyard in Lockport, La.

After completing sea trials in the

Gulf of Mexico, these state-of-the- art craft, known as the ECO-llO, were based in Miami, Fla., where they were put to work picking up marine debris, monitoring and map- ping water pollution, and cleaning up oil slicks and other chemical spills.

Founded in November 1990 and headquartered in New York City,

Ecomarine USA provides the most advanced technology and services for oil spill response, marine pollu- tion control, and marine monitoring and mapping. The company leases fleets of environmental vessels to government agencies, businesses and other groups concerned with keeping the nation's waterways clean.

Ecomarine USA's strategy is to form partnerships with regional companies knowledgeable about the local maritime market. The first such joint venture, Ecomarine

Florida, was announced earlier this month by Ecomarine USA and

Florida Clean Harbors, Inc., a hold- ing company founded by Donald T.

Quinn, president of Oceanic Steam- ship Co. With headquarters in Mi- ami, Ecomarine Florida plans to eventually expand its services to include Naples, Tampa/St. Peters- burg, Jacksonville and Orlando.

A key feature of Ecomarine USA's services is that potential users— such as oil-spill cooperatives or local municipalities with sewage overflow problems—do not actually buy the boats, but charter them along with the services of a trained crew. And they can potentially share these costs with other users.

Unlike most oil-spill cleanup equipment, Ecomarine USA's multi- mission vessels are designed to be continually at work, ready to be rushed to the scene of an emergency.

As a private contractor, Ecomarine

USA is wholly accountable for the maintenance and performance of its equipment.

Ecomarine USA has also com- missioned a 65-foot flagship vessel known as the ECO-800. Work on the first ECO-8OO is currently un- der way at Trinity Marine Group's

Aluminum Boats division in Crown

Point, La., and is expected to be completed later this year. The boat was designed by Boat Craft of Jack- sonville, Fla.

Both the ECO-8OO and ECO-llO will be equipped with mechanical "jaws" designed to extract debris from the water with a powerful suc- tion mechanism capable of consum- ing vast volumes of oil and debris.

Under ideal conditions, the mecha- nism can recover up to 40 tons of oil an hour on the ECO-llO and up to 100 tons on the ECO-8OO. "Earlier versions of these rugged vessels have proven themselves to be a cost-effective and utterly prac- tical solution to cleaning up water- ways," says William S. Doyle, a managing director of Ecomarine

USA.

Ecomarine USA is a joint venture of OMI Corp., a major shipping com- v pany based in New York;

Ecoventures Inc., a holding company headed by Maxwell A. Rabb, the former U.S. Ambassador to Italy; and Ecolmare SpA. of Sorrento, Italy, one the world's leading providers of technologically advanced marine- ecology services for government and industry.

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