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USCG Subchapter K and is scheduled electrical power. The batteries will be 2017, predominantly comprised of com- marinelink.com/news/commercial-ship- for delivery in March 2019. recharged via a power cable with green panies returning to the yard with repeat yard427892 electricity from Color Line’s own shore business, including the likes of Crow-

LCS USS Gabrielle Giffords facilities or recharged on board by the ley, OSG, Seabulk, Seaboard, Tropical, Gladding-Hearn: Pilot Boat Order

SHIPBUILDING

The U.S. Navy’s tenth Littoral Combat ship’s generators. The 160-m long vessel Trailerbridge and TOTE. Delta Launch Services, the operating

Ship (LCS) USS Gabrielle Giffords was will have a capacity for 2,000 passengers Crowely Marine Services, Inc. will company for the Associated Branch pi- commissioned at the Port of Galveston, and 500 cars. dry dock more than a dozen vessels in lots on the SW Pass of the Mississippi,

Texas, earlier this summer, becoming 2017, starting in January with the con- ordered a new pilot boat from Gladding- the 16th ship to be named for a woman Vigor Delivers LGC tainership National Glory, and followed Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corpora- and only the 13th ship to be named for Vigor is historically one of the busier soon thereafter by Barge 750, Tug Leg- tion. Delivery of the new 52-footer, a living person since 1850. This is the U.S. commercial yards, and it recently end, Tug Coastal Reliance, Tug Ensign, scheduled for 2018, is the ? fth St. John’s ? fth such LCS in a 10-ship Indepen- delivered Harvest, the ? rst complex liq- Barge 550-4 and Barge Miami. Other Class launch built for the Delta pilots by dence–variant ship program with Austal ue? ed ammonia transport barge built in GSB highlights in the ? rst six months of the Somerset, Mass. shipyard.

USA that uses the LM2500 marine gas the U.S. for Jones Act trade since 1982. 2017 include: The new launch, a sister-ship to Mis- turbine. The two LM2500 engines are The 508 x 96-ft. ATB tank barge was • OSG Overseas Longbeach was dry sissippi, delivered in 2013, and measures arranged in a combined diesel and gas built to support the operations of The for 10 days. Work included pipe replace- of 52.6 ft. overall, with a beam of 16.1 turbine or CODAG con? guration with Mosaic Company, a producer and mar- ments of over 300 m throughout, and on ft. and a draft of 4.8 ft. The all-alumi- two diesel engines. LCS 10 is named for keter of concentrated phosphate and multiple systems. num pilot boat features the C. Raymond

Giffords, a U.S. Congresswomen who potash. Harvest will be operated by a • Polska Zegluga Morska PP re- Hunt-designed Deep V hull. It will be resigned in 2011 to recover from wounds subsidiary of Savage Companies as part turned to the yard with two bulk carriers. powered by twin Caterpillar C-18 EPA she sustained following an assassination of an articulated tug and barge (ATB) Raba in followed by the San. Both were Tier 3 diesel engines, each delivering attempt. unit. Built to the highest ABS (Ameri- docked for propeller overhauls, minor 671 Bhp at 2100 rpm and a top speed of can Bureau of Shipping) and U.S. Coast engine work, seal renewals. 24 knots. “Quickshift” gears will turn

Ulstein & the Largest Hybrid Ferry Guard safety standards, the ? rst-in-class • Bibby Offshore Ltd. docked the div- ? ve-blade Bruton bronze propellers. The

Rolls-Royce received an order for four Harvest was completed on an aggressive ing support vessel Bibby Sapphire for an launch will be equipped with a 12kW

B33:45L diesel engines to power the timeline. Abundance, the connecting tug, extensive 20-day work period. Works Northern Lights genset.

world’s largest hybrid ferry being built was built and delivered by Washington- included: steel replacement, tank clean- for the Norwegian cruise and transport based Nichols Brothers Boat Builders ing and disposal of sludge, electric mo- Gulfstream Launches Ferry company Color Line. The ferry, de- and is also classed by ABS. tor overhaul, pipe replacement and bow Gulfstream Shipbuilding launched a signed by Fosen and to be built at Ulstein thruster overhaul. custom passenger/vehicle ferry for the

Verft in Norway, is due for completion Grand Bahama Shipyard • GBS also welcomed ? rst time visi- U.S. Department of Homeland Security by the summer of 2019 and is sched- Grand Bahama Shipyard (GBS) re- tors, Chinese-owned BGP Pioneer man- (DHS) in July 2017. This 118 x 27 x uled to operate on the crossing between ports that despite generally down market aged by Thome Offshore Management 10.75 ft. crew boat-style vessel will be

Sandefjord in Norway and Strømstad in conditions, its business model has prov- and companion tug Supply II double dry delivered in the fall 2017 to service the

Sweden. The new Color Line ferry will en strong as it has completed work on 30 docked in February. For a full rundown New York and Connecticut waters. The be a plug-in hybrid combining diesel and commercial vessels within ? rst half of on GBS’s 1H ’17 work, visit: www. aluminum ferry will service the DHS

Damen & Metal Shark team to build boats.

Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding delivers another ATB for Kirby

Grand Bahama Shipyard (GBS): Work on 30 vessels.

Grand Bahama Shipyard Damen

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