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In the Shipyard

Latest Deliveries, Contracts and Designs

HTV Seaway

Dry Dock

Swan joins

Conference Set for the Seaway

September

The tenth International Dry Dock Confer- 7 Fleet ence is scheduled to take place in Virgin-

Seaway 7 took delivery of a new semisubmersible heavy transport vessel. ia Beach, VA, September 22-23, 2022.

The company entered into a bareboat contract with United Faith for its new build vessel MV Xin Qun 3, renamed Seaway Swan. Seaway Swan is a 50,000

The tenth International Dry Dock Conference/

DWT Heavy Transport Vessel (HTV) with an open stern and large deck free

Advanced Training Forums is scheduled to from obstructions. This addition to Seaway 7’s HTV ? eet will further extend take place in Virginia Beach, VA, September the company’s capacity to load larger and longer cargoes such as XXL mono- 22-23, 2022. Organizers of the annual event piles, and modules that would typically need to be skidded on and off the vessel contend that while the drydock industry has over the stern. The Seaway Swan is suitable for ? oat-over operation projects, not evolved as quickly as others due to the feeder duties alongside installation vessels, and offshore (subsea) construction unique nature of the business, there are support, due to its Dynamic Positioning (DP2) capabilities. The vessel was many technical advances which offer prom- ise in making the drydocking industry faster, built by Qingdao Beihai shipyard, part of the CSSC group. Following sea trials safer and more ef? cient. This forum brings earlier this spring, Its maiden voyage will commence later this summer when together the industry for two-days of in-depth

Seaway Swan will transport four large Ship-to-Ship cranes from their pick-up discussion and experience sharing. point in Qingdao, China to Alexandria, Egypt for discharge in September.

Presentations given by various experts in

The vessel is registered in Norway and carries the Norwegian International the ? eld will cover unusual and problem

Ship Register (NIS) ? ag.

drydockings, new advancements with dry docks and heavy lift.

2022 Conference topics include (topics are subject to change): ¦

Dry Dock Construction - Conception Through Delivery

Dry Dock Equipment ¦

Drydocking/Undocking Accidents ¦

Drydocking/Undocking from the ¦ Vessel Operator Perspective

Emerging Dry Dock Technologies ¦

Floating Dry Docks - Civil/Structural ¦ Design Aspects and Applications

Mark W. Barker:

Heavy Lift Operations - ¦ USS Fitzgerald and USS McCain

First New US Laker in 40 Years

Photo: The Interlake Steamship Company

Management of a Dry Dock Start-up ¦

The newly built Mark W. Barker, the United States’ ? rst new Great Lakes

Ship Loading Issues for Drydocking ¦ bulk carrier in nearly 40 years, has embarked on its maiden voyage from Fin- ¦

Special Drydock Access Systems cantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. The River Class self-unload- ¦

Unique Drydocking Operations - ing bulk carrier is believed to be the ? rst ship for U.S. Great Lakes service One Vessel on Two Dry Docks built on the Great Lakes since 1983. Measuring 639 x 78 ft. and 28,000 DWT, ¦

US Navy Drydocking Program the ship will transport raw materials such as salt, iron ore, and stone to support ¦

Vertical Lifts manufacturing throughout the Great Lakes region.

The conference will be held in person, but if

It was designed jointly by The Interlake Steamship Company, Fincantieri unable to travel to Virginia Beach to attend,

Bay Shipbuilding (FBS) and Bay Engineering, complete with advanced vessel the 2022 Dry Dock Conference/Advanced and unloading systems automation. Major partners for the project included:

Training forum is also available via live

American Bureau of Shipping (ABS); Cleveland-Cliffs, Bay Engineering stream Webinar.

Visit www.DryDockTraining.com (BEI); EMD Engines; Caterpillar; EMS-Tech, Inc.; Lufkin (a GE Company),

Kongsberg and MacGregor.

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