The ATB barge is called Oliver Leavitt, in honor of previous Arctic Slope Regional Corporation chairman as well as existing participant of the company’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 a verbalized tug-barge (ATB) system efficient in moving numerous tidy oil items in the Alaska market to Crowley Fuels LLC– the Alaska- based oil transport, circulation as well as sales system of Crowley Maritime Corporation.
The ATB is the very first 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 existing participant of the company’s board of supervisors, with the pull birthing the name Aveogan, Leavitt’s Iñupiat name.
The Alaska course ATB system includes one double Z-Drive, 7,000-HP sea tugboat gauging 128 feet x 42 feet x 21 feet, coupled with a 100,000-BBL sea barge gauging 400 feet x 85 feet x 32 feet. As a system, with the pull mated right into the barge, the ATB determines 483 feet in size.
Jensen Maritime, Crowley Shipping’s Seattle- based marine style as well as aquatic design subsidiary, made the ATB to satisfy Ice Class as well as Polar Code demands, that include enhanced architectural framework as well as covering plating as well as expanded absolutely no discharge endurance. The double-hulled layout likewise includes a barge type element to accomplish high-cargo capability 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 creates, handles the building and construction of as well as runs a series of vessel kinds, consisting of container 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 arrangement 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,” stated 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,” stated 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,” stated 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 improve 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 criteria. The generators on the pull as well as barge satisfy EPA Tier 3 as well as IMO Tier II discharges criteria.
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 container on the barge to make up gas melt. 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 likewise equipped with spill reaction equipment as well as a hydraulic boom reel with 2,000 direct feet of blow up boom to sustain spill reaction initiatives.
The ATB was made 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 constructed with improved functions to profit the staff, consisting of 45-degree sloped stairs, indoor audio deadening as well as committed heads in each cabin.
Crowley runs as well as handles the biggest U.S.-flag oil as well as chemical container vessel fleet in the nation, consisting of 40 various other Jones Act certified big oil transport vessels that lugged virtually 590 million barrels of item with greater than 6,200 transfer in 2019.
