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Senesco Marine Signs Contract For 140,000-Barrel DH ATB

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Senesco Marine signed a contract with

New Jersey-based U.S. Shipping. LLC to build a 140,0000-barrel double-hulled (DH) chemical ATB with tug that can double as a 150,000-barrel double- hulled petroleum ATB. The develop- ment. according to Gary Schuler, CEO of Senesco Marine, signals the compa- ny's move to service this growing mar- ket. and the move will more than double

Senesco Marine's workforce, which cur- rently stands at approximately 200. "By

November of 2005 we will have a work- force of more than 500 employees," said

Schuler. "We are announcing to the industry that we are now focusing on state of the art ATB's." The contract for the first ATB is worth more than $40 million. In addition to the order, U.S.

Shipping has options for three 150,000- barrel DH petroleum ATB's with

Senesco Marine. Construction is expect- ed to take around 14 months for the barge and 12 months for the tug.

Senesco Marine is scheduled to start cutting steel in December and expects to deliver the ATB early in 2006. U.S.

Shipping operates six Integrated Tug and Barge (ITB) vessels in the domestic oil trade and two parcel tankers. The 48,000-dwt ton vessels are equipped with state-of-the-art technology and capable of carrying a wide variety of liq- uid petroleum and petro-chemical car- goes. The ATB will be the first for U.S.

Shipping. Guarino and Cox designed the

ATB. Senesco Marine entered a strate- gic partnership with Guarino & Cox last year as part of a sweeping new on time design, build and delivery process.

Senesco Marine has also established a strategic alliance with Luther Blount of

Blount Boats in Warren, RI, to act as a technical consultant on the tug portion of the project. When complete the barge component of the ATB will measure 512 ft. long with a displacement of 26,600 tons. The 10.000-hp tug will measure approximately 145 ft. long.

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Global Completes Sales of DB Arapaho and

Liftboat Division

Global Industries, Ltd. completed the sales of the DB Arapaho and the

Liftboat Division. The Arapaho, an 800-ton conventional derrick barge cur- rently based in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, was sold on September 29. 2004 to a subsidiary of Tetra Technologies, Inc.

The Liftboat Division was sold on

October 4, 2004 to Hercules Liftboat

Company, LLC (formerly Mercury

Offshore Assets LLC).

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