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Reinauer ATB Unit

Main Particulars

Length 460 ft. (140 m)

Breadth 72 ft. (22 m)

Depth 41 ft. (12.5 m)

Draft, LDW 29.6 ft. (9 m)

Capacity 135,000 barrels

DWT 19,500 m.t.

GT 8,400 m.t.

Tug

Length 124 ft. (37.8 m)

Breadth 40 ft. (12 m)

Depth 22 ft. (6.7 m)

Draft, DWL 19 ft. (5.8 m)

Displacement 1,369 LT

HP 2 x 3,600 engines

Speed, with barge 11 knots

Halter Signs Great Lakes

Barge Contract

Halter Marine Group, Inc. has signed a contract with Great

Lakes Marine Leasing, LLC to build a 740 ft. (225 m) self-unload- ing dry bulk cargo barge for ser- vice on the Great Lakes. To be named Great Lakes Trader, the barge will be operated by Van

Enkevort Tug and Barge and is reportedly the largest to be built by Halter. The vessel will be built and launched in two halves at

Halter's Gulf Coast Fabrication,

Inc. in Pearlington, Miss, and towed to New Orleans where the two halves will be joined in Halter

Gulf Repair's large floating dry- dock. Final outfitting will be com- pleted at Halter Gulf Repair by

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Alabama Wins ATB

Construction Contract

Alabama Shipyard, Inc. has signed an agreement with

Reinauer Transportation

Companies to build an articulated tug barge unit (ATB) with an option for up to three additional units. The 460-ft. (140 m) barge was designed by Alabama

Shipyard to be double hulled in compliance with OPA 90 regula- tions. Bob Hill of Ocean Tug and

Barge Engineering designed the 7,200 hp, 124-ft. (37.8 m) tug. The

ATB features the patented

Intercon tug/barge coupler system designed and built by

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Manufacturing Corp. The system consists of two independently mounted gear driven ram assem- blies, which form a rigid and mechanically locked connection between the tug and barge.

Engineering has been completed and construction is planned to begin on February 1 with delivery of the first unit in late 1999.

Circle 80 on Reader Service Card the owner. Great Lakes Trader will be used primarily to transport and discharge taconite pellets, limestone and coal. It will have a single continuous hold/elevator conveyor belt and a 265 ft. (81 m) boom conveyor that can discharge 6,000 long tons per hour. It will be paired with the 10,200 hp twin- screw tug Joyce L. Vanenkevort, or a sister tug, as a dual mode, inte- grated tug/barge (ITB) with an articulated connection system.

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USACE Dredges

Ocean-Ship Channel

Emergency dredging was uti- lized to restore the ocean-ship channel to 30-ft. depth in the

Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (MR-GO), the USACE New

Orleans District reported last month.

Hurricane Georges had caused severe shoaling in late September on the MR-GO, a 76-mile, man-

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