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In the Yard

Workboats

The Shearer Group

Southwest Shipyard Delivers 250-foot Tank Barge

Houston’s Southwest Shipyard delivered a 250 x 54 x 12.5-ft. 23,000 BBL tank barge that will primarily be used to deliver jet fuel to support the U.S.

Navy assets.

The Shearer Group, Inc. (TSGI) said it was contracted by the builder to develop the barge design. The barge was designed to ABS Rules for

Edison Chouest Offshore

Building and Classing Steel

Vessels for Service on Rivers

ECO to Build and Operate First Jones Act SOV and Intracoastal Waterways and applicable rules by the

Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) will multiple lounges.

U.S. Coast Guard for barges build and operate the ? rst U.S.-? agged The SOV will include a below deck

Subchapter D & O products

Jones Act compliant Service Operations warehouse to palletize storage for wind on rivers. It features six cargo

Vessel (SOV). ECO, Ørsted, and Ever- farm tools, components and supplies with tanks, two S6B3-429BPU source announced the execution of a long- step-less access to an elevator.

Tier III Cargo Pump Engines, term charter agreement for the provision of Furthermore, a daughter craft, with as- a reinforced ice framed bow, the SOV. sociated Launch and Recovery System generator and HPU house,

The vessel will be built at a combination and hydraulic height-compensating land- hydraulic cargo hose handling of Edison Chouest’s shipyards in Florida, ing platform, will be installed for in? eld cranes, and an air conditioned

Mississippi and Louisiana. turbine repair operations. The vessel will tankermans shed.

The SOV will be more than 260 feet long operate on diesel-electric power that meets and capable of housing 60 passengers. It EPA Tier 4 emission standards and will will be equipped with passenger staterooms feature a proprietary ECO Variable Fre- with private bathrooms, an exercise room, quency Drive (VFD) to reduce greenhouse cinema/training room, internet café and gas emissions.

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