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Bollinger to Build 28,000 BBL Barge

Outboard profile and deck plan of the 28,000 BBL

Double Hull, OPA'90 Lakes, Bays & Sounds tank barge to be built by Bollinger Marine Fabricators in Amelia, La. for Progressive Barge Line.

Bollinger Marine Fabricators, LLC, (BMF) Amelia, La., signed a contract with Progressive Barge Line, Inc., New

Orleans, La. for the construction of a lead- ing edge double hull OPA '90 Lakes, Bays and Sounds tank barge. The Bollinger hull # 505, will have capacity of 28,000 bar- rels (BBL) and is a near sister ship to four similar hulls also under construction at the active BMF facility for another operator.

Elliot Bay Design Group performed the design and engineering package in sup- port of Bollinger.

Hull #505 will be built primarily for bunkering services on the Mississippi

River and throughout the port of New

Orleans. The barge will be built in accor- dance with ABS rules and certified by

U.S. Coast Guard for rivers, lakes, bays and sounds service for carriage of Grade

A products and below. It will be subdi- vided into six cargo tanks, each with pipe coils for heating cargo. The heater sys- tem will be a four million BTU Hopkins

Volcanic, with two-in. piping coils lining the bottom of each cargo tank for opti- mum heat distribution. The 28,000 BBL capacity barge will measure 297.6-ft. in length, with a 54-ft. beam and 13-ft. depth. Delivery is planned for the third quarter of 2006.

Blue Chip Casino

Vessel Delivered

Jamestown Metal Marine Sales, Inc. delivered the completed Blue Chip 2 casi- no vessel to Boyd Gaming Corporation's

Blue Chip Casino's Michigan City, Ind., facility. The new vessel, which replaces the former vessel, is approximately 400 x 200 ft. and provides about 65,000 sq. ft. of gaming area on a single deck. In addition to the gaming area there is another 82,000 sq. ft. of back of house and future gaming areas on other decks. Jamestown began the on-site construction project in the late fall of 2004 with the erection of steel units in the construction basin specially con- structed for the project. Over the succeed- ing 14 months Jamestown, working with its key subcontractors and suppliers, pro- duced the largest casino vessel ever built in the U.S., including hull fabrication and erection, machinery and mechanical installation, electrical installation, interior 451

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