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PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS ing safety training course for Harvey ? ve-day advanced training program

Gulf in 2014 as it prepared to launch for personnel serving on vessels using its ? rst dual fuel offshore supply ves- gas fuels that have direct responsibil- sel. USMRC/MSI is the ? rst organi- ity for the care and use of LNG fuel zation in the United States to offer a and the gas fuel systems.

Nolan Weakley month since 2010. The March ore ? oat was also nearly 60 percent below the month’s 5-year average. Heavy ice and lack of icebreaking resources on both sides of the border were the culprits. “The winter of 2014/2015 was again brutal,” said James H.I.

Weakley, President of Lake Carri- ers’ Association. “The ice formations were so formidable that a number of

LCA’s members chose to delay getting underway rather than risk a repeat of last spring when ice caused more than $6 million in damage to the vessels.”

Weakley added that both U.S. and

Canadian icebreakers have experi- enced a number of serious mechani- cal issues. He also called on Canada to review its icebreaking resources dedi- cated to the Lakes. The country used to have seven icebreakers stationed on the Lakes, but now just two are per- manently assigned here.

USMRC’s LNG Bunkering

Course has Key Role in North

American LNG

The United States Maritime Re- source Center’s training partner,

Harvey Gulf International Marine, recently launched the PSV Harvey

Energy, the ? rst LNG-fueled vessel to enter service in North America. In

March, the PSV Harvey Energy be- gan working on charter to Shell in the

Gulf of Mexico shortly after the ves- sel’s ? rst successful LNG bunkering operation. Middletown, R.I.-based

USMRC developed the LNG bunker- 55 www.marinelink.com MN