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Crowley ning said. “Over my time here, we’ve dropped the average

The vessel formerly known as Noydena age of a worker by six years over three and a half years. So that’s including our workforce aging by three years over was bult by DMI for Brusco Tug and that time. We’re big on investing in attracting the right

Barge and is now being operated by people from the next generation, and then developing

Crowley under its new name, Hercules. them with skills and opportunities here.”

DMI has partnered with local schools including Port- land Community College (PCC), giving feedback to help develop their maritime specifc welding program. The re- lationship has led to the hiring of many PCC graduates. “Twenty-fve percent of our workforce is under 25 right now. We’re getting a lot of younger people that like the culture here and want to learn a skill, and we’re develop- ing them. That’s something I’m really excited about. We’ve got a great young group here,” Manning said. “It all clicks when a boat delivers, and they get to see that boat sail off the dock under his own power.”

As the company builds up its workforce, it is also look- ing to scale up production. “We want to get to four boats a year; we’re currently at two,” Manning said. “We’re going to have our larger hulls built at another yard in Portland, and we’ll do all the outftting, piping systems and machin- ery installations here at Diversifed.”

Earl W Redd, built by Diversifed

Marine, Inc for Tug Construction in 2017, was the United States’ frst EPA Tier 4 workboat. Foss

Maritime is currently operating the vessel under bareboat charter for the U.S. offshore wind industry.

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