Company Focus: Staying Connected with INTERCON
The Intercon Coupler System is designed to provide a safe and efficient solution to the problems of connecting tugs and barges in ocean and coastwise pushing operations. Principal benefits include the ability to push in the widest range of sea states; the complete elimination of hull contact; fail-safe mechanical connection with redundant controls, and elimination of the expense and hazards of towing lines and related equipment.
In simplest form, the patented Intercon System provides a single degree of freedom allowing the tug to pitch about a transverse connection between the tug and barge. All other motions are restrained so that tug motions match barge motions in roll and heave.
The connection is mechanical — accomplished with two independently mounted ram assemblies, gear driven, and configured for tug installation. The rams stroke transversely, engaging the vertical ladder structures incorporated into both walls of the stern notch. The resulting tug-barge connection is rigid, mechanically locked, and fail-safe.
Recent Success The Intercon reference list is long and distinguished, including the aforementioned Crowley subsidiary installations from Bay Shipbuilding. In addition.
Island Tug & Barge Ltd. of Vancouver, BC recently celebrated the commissioning of its barge, Island Trader, in Vancouver. The barge was built in China and returned to Vancouver by tug. Island Monarch. The 3,000-hp tug was retrofitted with an Intercon CSeries Coupler and the barge notch was fitted with Intercon ladder assemblies.
The C-Series Coupler is the latest addi- addition to our product line of articulated tug-barge couplers and is sized for ATBs in the 60,000 to 100,000 BBL range. In addition, Penn Maritime of Staten Island, NY, ordered its fifth ATB to be outfitted with an Intercon 50-in. Coupler System.
The 123-ft., 6,000-hp tug and 140,000 BBL barge will be built by Bay Shipbuilding of Sturgeon Bay, Wis.
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Content
- Northrop Grumman Delivers Aegis Destroyer page: 3
- Izar Gijon Delivers Two Massive Dredgers page: 10
- Boeing Connexion Moves to the High Seas page: 10
- New Ferries for Hawaii? page: 11
- Damen Delivers First-of-Class ASD Tug page: 12
- OMI Pleads Guilty to Illegal Dump, To Pay $4.2M Fine page: 14
- Teekay Orders Aframax Tankers page: 15
- Wartsila to Discontinue Production in Turku page: 15
- China Preps To Take World Lead page: 16
- Secondhand Prices Tanker Prices Up 35% page: 16
- Continuous Synopsis Record page: 18
- A 3D Virtual Interface to Access Ship Data page: 20
- MAN B&W Debuts ME-GI Dual Fuel Engine page: 21
- Rebuilding Single Hull Tankers to Double Hull Tankers page: 22
- Thor-Lube Stern Tube Bearing System on Shell LNG Carrier page: 24
- K-Sea Acquires Integrated Tug Barge Unit page: 25
- Boosting Deepsea RoRo Capacity page: 25
- MTS Rosette: State of the Art Inland Tank Ship page: 26
- Fourth New ATB Tank Vessel for MTC page: 30
- Company Focus: Staying Connected with INTERCON page: 31
- Innovative Coastal Trader page: 32
- Halifax Shipyard On Hand To Replace Lost Rudder page: 33
- East Isle Shipyard Wins $16M Contract page: 34
- Transport Canada Takes Lead on Safety page: 35
- Hike Metal: Steady Progress to Success page: 36
- Car Ferry Saves Fuel with New Engines page: 37
- The ISPS Code page: 38
- Temporary Hull Repair on FPSO Stands the Test page: 39
- New 12,000-sq.-m. Workshop Pays Dividends page: 41
- Series Design in the New Regs Environment page: 42
- Aluminum Boats Prove Their Mettle page: 44
- Success Aboard QM2 page: 49
- LCD's Turning Black page: 50
- The Needs of Maritime Electronic Equipment page: 51
- Advantage of Marine Guard Foam Filled Marine Fenders page: 52
