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- Textron Marine Systems Delivers 12th LCAC To Navy Maritime Reporter, Mar 1988 #38
John J. Kelly, president of Textron Marine Systems (TMS), division of Textron Inc., recently announced a successful end to 1987 with the delivery of Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) -12 to Assault Craft Unit Four (ACU-4). Acceptance of the craft by the U.S. Navy was at the Panama City, Fla., LCAC support facility.
LCAC-12 was driven under her own power from the New Orleans TMS production facility, across the Gulf of Mexico to Panama City.
The LCAC is an amphibious air cushion vehicle that can quickly transport troops, equipment and weapons from support ships over the horizon to dry ground beyond the beach and surf at speeds in excess of 40 knots.
Textron Marine Systems previously delivered the first six LCACs in 1986, and these are currently operating with the U.S. Navy Amphibious Force, Pacific Fleet, at ACU-5, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Craft seven through 11 are now in operation at ACU-4 at Little Creek, Va. Eventually, 45 LCACs are scheduled to be deployed at the East Coast base and another 45 LCACs at the West Coast facility.
Textron Marine Systems has another 12 LCACs under construction at its production facility in New Orleans.
The Navy plans to acquire nine additional LCACs in fiscal year 1989, with subsequent procurement of additional craft in the 1990s.
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- Risk Breakers: Craig Perciavalle President, Austal USA Maritime Logistics Professional, Q1 2013 #28
of customized, high-performance aluminum vessels for the commercial high-speed ferry market. A full tour of the gleaming, meticulously clean Gulf Coast facility reveals an impressive assembly line infrastructure and a walk-through of vessels rapidly approaching completion at its berths. Under contract to
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 33them, identifying and avoiding nodules with visible life present. A second-generation collector, Eureka II, is currently being tested off the US east coast. It has three arms, but the Images courtesy of GSR much larger Eureka III will have 16 arms. Gunasekara estimates that a ? eet of around 16 of
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 9from marinas along the western coast. The exact number of lizing laser detection systems can detect mines just below the mines, as well as their locations, remains largely a mystery, surface, even those hiding in murky water. The Airborne Laser although reports suggest that over three hundred have been
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 4Editorial NIWA-Nippon Foundation TESMaP/ Rebekah Parsons-King www.marinetechnologynews.com ast month marked the resounding NEW YORK 118 E. 25th St., New York, NY 10010 return of Oceanology Interna- Tel: (212) 477-6700; Fax: (212) 254-6271 tional in London, perennially one Lof the world’s most important
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 39Tech Files Latest Products, Systems and Ship Designs “Wall Climbing Robot” Danish Pilot calls gets ClassNK Nod LEGO Model "A tribute build to a work life at sea" Image courtesy MOL, Sumitomo Heavy Industries lassNK granted its Innovation Endorse- Image courtesy Espen Andersen/DanPilot ment for
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 27, and provide for some kind of relief for our people. able the assignments that are best suited for our people. We can track all of the certi? cations; Coast Guard licensing; and We’ve talked about people. What can you tell skill sets across the entire force. A master with an all-tonnage us about your
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 22construction, one the U.S.-? ag WTIV Charybdis being ects underway and more to come, as BOEM approves more built at Seatrium Amfels for Dominion Energy Coast Virginia 22 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • April 2024 MR #4 (18-33).indd 22 4/5/2024 8:15:09 A
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 18growth in the U.S., as offshore wind spreads from the million (2021) to €66 million (2024). In the same period, a North and Mid-Atlantic, to the Paci? c Coast and the Gulf Chinese built CSOV for the European market would attract of Mexico, effectively creating three-four sub segments for a yard price of
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 6.com earnest to clear the waterways and re-open a other regions. RAdm Sobeck and MSC face Production & Graphic Design Nicole Ventimiglia critical east coast port facility. many of the same challenges facing the [email protected] This incident again highlights how ‘out commercial industry at large:
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 4Authors & Contributors MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS M A R I N E L I N K . C O M ISSN-0025-3448 USPS-016-750 No. 4 Vol. 86 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News (ISSN # 0025-3448) is published monthly Cooper Fischer Goldberg except for March, July, and October by Maritime Activity Reports, Inc.
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 42People & Companies Nevey to Head TAI Hires Kalla Washington State Ferries TAI Engineers appointed Amer Steve Nevey has been selected to Kalla as director of production design. serve as assistant secretary for the FMC Names Usman CIO Washington State Ferries Division, Nevey Schwandt succeeding Patty
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 39There are ? ve major paint catego- lenges in shipyards is managing small building is a multifaceted endeavor ries in new construction shipbuilding: parts, which are prone to surface rust that demands integrative systems before installation. Optimizing the planning, as well as adoption of new 1.
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 38Tech File Optimizing Blast and Paint Processes in New Construction Shipbuilding By Colin Gallagher, Director of Shipyard Optimization, BlastOne International The ef? cacy of surface preparation and coating appli- 1. Raw material entry cation in the new construction shipbuilding industry is 2. Painting
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 37evolution] is step-by-step with crew on board. As The vessel’s current onboard systems can provide passive the technology proves itself to the level of Coast Guard and situational awareness. The next step would be supervised class satisfaction, then we can start to investigate higher autonomous transits
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 36Feature Electric Tugs the construction of which has fallen behind schedule. “When you’re out on the leading edge of these technolo- gies, everything has to catch up,” Manzi said. “Permitting has to catch up, regulation has to catch up, standards have to catch up. And we’ve faced all three of those challenge
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 33began building the vessel later that year. The result of these efforts is the 82-foot-long tug eWolf, built to ABS class and is compliant with U.S. Coast Guard Subchapter M regulations. Of? cially delivered to Crowley in January of this year, the vessel was heavy lifted from Ala- bama through the
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 30, being constructed by the same shipyard Gamesa Renewable Energy. Dominion Energy, the Virginia for a 2025 delivery date. utility developing the 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore The offshore wind sector has seen a number of contracts Wind (CVOW) project, is bringing in a capital infusion for crew transfer
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 29engines from Caterpillar. Another in the series, Isabel McAllister, will be delivered in 2024. Construction of new vessels for the offshore wind markets has fallen short of the boom times forecast only several years ago amid calls for “30 by 30” (30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore power gen- erated by
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 28from Master Boat Builders (Coden, Ala.) in January 2024, and Hydrogen One, a towboat to be powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, under construction at Intracoastal Iron Works in Bourg, La. The vessel will join the ? eet of ? nancial own- er Maritime Partners, who have placed it on a long-term charter to
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 27Feature Shipbuilding Loumania Stewart / U.S. Coast Guard focus), which require very different business systems to be in place. “We’ve been able to do both,” he said, noting that having systems in place for government jobs makes East- ern Shipbuilding “move-in ready for the Navy and other DOD agencies
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 26panel, moderated by Roy Bleiberg, who Highlighting his yard’s successes with work for the U.S. handles Business Development, North America, for ABS, Coast Guard in construction of Offshore Patrol Cutters Joey D’Isernia, the chairman and CEO of Eastern Ship- (OPC), D’Isernia stressed the challenges of
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 25an up- dated (from 2016) Memorandum of Agreement for the “Establishment of the Wind Turbine Radar Interference Mitigation Working Group.” (Note: The Coast Guard and Homeland Security are not part of the MOA.) The MOA was to establish an Executive Steering Group, ap- prove a 5-year study plan and prepare
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 24re- “radar”; the word only appears in a footnote referencing the main an open set of issues. These concerns extend beyond title of the NAS report.) The Coast Guard does not ask for in- vessels and aircraft to weather and environmental moni- sights or comments on how or whether radar failure might be toring
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 22? c lease. Register Notice (January 19) to establish “shipping safety • For structure siting, the USCG (again) “insists” that fairways along the Atlantic coast.” He notes that two pos- BOEM apply the Marine Planning Guidelines detailed in sible fairways are adjacent to lease areas off the Delaware Enclosure
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 21issue: the need to mitigate tions pose consequences for maybe the next 100 years. con? icts with U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) ac- Safe transit: Coast Guard has “several equities” tivities. BOEM explains that in certain areas the Air Force BOEM’s December sale Notice also advises energy com- has