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FERRY FIRST

Alabama’s Gee’s Bend Ferry re- cently entered service after being converted from geared-diesel to

Images courtesy Glosten/ALDOT become the ? rst zero-emission,

New ATB for VANE electric-powered passenger/car

In 2018, Vane Brothers took deliv- ferry in the U.S. Owned by the Ala- ery of the ? rst of three new articu- bama Department of Transportation lated tug/barge (ATB) units ordered (ALDOT) and operated by HMS Fer- through Conrad Shipyard: the ries, Seattle-based Glosten provided 4,400-horsepower tug Assateague concept through contract design (designed by Castleman Maritime and shipyard technical support of and built at Conrad’s Orange, the vessel conversion to all-electric.

Texas, facility) and 80,000-barrel barge Double Skin 801 (designed by Bristol Harbor Group and built at

Conrad’s Amelia, La., facility).

Credit : Vane Brothers

MIRACLE ON ICE

Arguably the most exciting new shipbuilding project in the U.S. is the project to rebuild the USCG ice- breaker ? eet. A contract won by VT Halter Marine of Pascagoula, Mississippi, as the prime contractor of a $745,940,860 ? xed-price incentive-? rm contract for the detail design and construction of the U.S.

Coast Guard (USCG) PSC (formerly the Heavy Polar Icebreaker).

Credit : VT Halter Marine and Technology Associates, Inc.

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