The ATB barge is called Oliver Leavitt, in honor of previous Arctic Slope Regional Corporation chairman as well as present participant of the firm’s board of supervisors, with the pull birthing the name Aveogan, his Iñupiat name. [Image: Bollinger Shipyards]
Bollinger Shipyards Lockport, LLC the other day provided an expressed tug-barge (ATB) device efficient in carrying several tidy oil items in the Alaska market to Crowley Fuels LLC– the Alaska- based oil transport, circulation as well as sales device of Crowley Maritime Corporation.
The ATB is the initial in Crowley’s fleet to be devoted to the Alaska market. The barge is called Oliver Leavitt, in honor of ASRC’s previous chairman as well as present participant of the firm’s board of supervisors, with the pull birthing the name Aveogan, Leavitt’s Iñupiat name.
The Alaska course ATB device includes one double Z-Drive, 7,000-HP sea tugboat determining 128 feet x 42 feet x 21 feet, coupled with a 100,000-BBL sea barge determining 400 feet x 85 feet x 32 feet. As a device, with the pull mated right into the barge, the ATB gauges 483 feet in size.
Jensen Maritime, Crowley Shipping’s Seattle- based marine design as well as aquatic design subsidiary, created the ATB to satisfy Ice Class as well as Polar Code demands, that include raised architectural framework as well as covering plating as well as prolonged no discharge endurance. The double-hulled layout additionally includes a barge kind element to attain high-cargo ability on marginal draft.
The ATB was built at the Bollinger Marine Fabricators shipyard in Amelia, La., with on-site building and construction monitoring by Crowley Shipping, which makes, handles the building and construction of as well as runs a variety of vessel kinds, consisting of storage tank vessels.
Crowley will certainly run the ATB for Alaska- based Petro Star Inc., a completely had subsidiary of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) under a lasting charter. The contract prolongs Crowley’s historical collaboration with ASRC as well as Petro Star, which goes back 4 years to ASRC’s earliest days. Crowley Shipping’s oil solutions team, the biggest driver of independent UNITED STATE oil transport vessels, will certainly run the ATB in behalf of Crowley Fuels.
“We are pleased to take delivery of this high-performance ATB, Aveogan-Oliver Leavitt, and look forward to getting her up to Alaska to begin serving our partners at Petro Star,” claimed Rocky Smith, elderly vice head of state as well as basic supervisor,Crowley Fuels “We congratulate the men and women at Jensen who designed the vessel and the team at Bollinger Shipyards who built it.”
“On behalf of the many talented craftsmen and craftswomen and a strong operational support group, the Bollinger team is proud to have built this ATB for Crowley Fuels,” claimed Bollinger Shipyard’s President as well as Chief Executive OfficerBen Bordelon “This contract to build another Jones Act classed ATB unit has created many jobs for U.S. mariners, shipyards and ancillary vendors.”
“The new vessel’s advanced design and environmental protection features mark a new era for fuel transportation services in Alaska,” claimed Rick Meidel, vice head of state as well as basic supervisor,Crowley Fuels Alaska “She will give many years of safe and reliable service for our valued customer Petro Star.”
The pull has azimuthing drives to boost ability to move, as well as an Intercon C-series combining system with a first-of-its-kind lightering headgear. The pull is fitted with 2 GE 8L250 primary engines that satisfy UNITED STATE Environmental Protection Agency’s Tier 4 discharges requirements. The generators on the pull as well as barge satisfy EPA Tier 3 as well as IMO Tier II discharges requirements.
In enhancement, the ATB includes a patent-pending shut loophole, freshwater ballast system wherein the pull’s ballast will certainly be moved to-and-from a retention storage tank on the barge to represent gas shed. The layout has actually been authorized by the USCG as well as will certainly get rid of the demand to release pull ballast water right into the sea.
The pull is outfitted with a fire display as well as foam proportioner, offering off-ship firefighting capacities to the barge. The barge is additionally furnished with spill action equipment as well as a hydraulic boom reel with 2,000 direct feet of blow up boom to sustain spill action initiatives.
The ATB was created under the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Convention as well as it will certainly be classified with the American Bureau of Shipping (ABDOMINAL MUSCLE). The vessel was developed with improved functions to profit the team, consisting of 45-degree sloped stairs, indoor noise deadening as well as specialized heads in each cabin.
Crowley runs as well as handles the biggest U.S.-flag oil as well as chemical storage tank vessel fleet in the nation, consisting of 40 various other Jones Act certified big oil transport vessels that lugged almost 590 million barrels of item with greater than 6,200 transfer in 2019.
