Maritime Partners, of Metairie, La., has taken delivery of the M/V Jennifer Lee, a 2,600 horsepower towboat from C&C Marine and Repair LLC, based in Belle Chase, La. The 84-foot by 30-foot by 11-foot vessel, designed by Entech Design, was completed on November 20 of last year. Jennifer Lee is powered by twin Cummins 1,300 hp QSK38-M1 engines with four Hung…
Rhode Island-based Blount Boats has been contracted by the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to build four steel inland tugs for use on the 524-mile Erie, Champlain, Oswego, and Cayuga-Seneca Canal network. According to the state agency – which owns and operates the New York State Canal Corporation as a subsidiary – the first two tugboats are scheduled to be…
Port Angeles, Wa.-based boatbuilder BRIX Marine has launched its newest pilot boat for an unnamed customer in Central America. According to BRIX, Aldebaran is “a purpose-built craft tailored to excel in its mission as a pilot boat, seamlessly integrating quality, innovation, and functionality.” Aldebaran’s 37-foot Naiad hull has a 23-degree progressive deadrise, 5086 alloy aluminum hull skins, D-shaped foam EV50…
American Commercial Barge Line has marked the delivery of the towboat, MV Michael J. Kennelly – the first Tier 4-engined, retractable-pilothouse towboat to enter service in the U.S. Designed by New England-based Farrell & Norton and built at Steiner Construction’s shipyard in Bayou La Batre, Al., Michael J. Kennelly measures 82 feet and is named for the senior vice president…
Rhode Island-based Bristol Harbor Group (BHGI) has been selected by Portland, Me.-based Casco Bay Lines to provide naval architecture and marine engineering services for the evaluation and design of a new, as yet unnamed, sub-chapter K passenger/vehicle ferry. The new vessel will operate year-round in Casco Bay and replace the 10.5-knot, 93-foot MV Maquoit II, which was built for CBL…
Chattanooga, Tn.-based Serodino Inc. has delivered the twin-screw MV Johnny R. Holt to the Parker Towing Company. The new 60-foot, Super Tiger Class workboat is compliant with all Coast Guard Subchapter M standards and features a pair of Cummins QSK-19M engines, developing a total of 1,500 hp. at 1,800 rpm. Twin Disc reverse and reduction gears turn the shafts and…
The towboat MV Cindy L. Erickson went to work for Marquette Transportation Co. in February 2018, but frustratingly adverse river conditions and the COVID-19 pandemic combined to delay the vessel’s official christening until just recently. Named for the company’s first employee – the daughter of company founder Ray Eckstein – the towboat is the second boat the company named in…
The bunker barge Clean Everglades has joined Seaside LNG’s fleet of Jones Act-compliant LNG barges extending the company’s LNG bunkering business to the Gulf of Mexico. The new barge is operated by Polaris New Energy (PNE), the bunkering arm of Seaside LNG. Seaside LNG contracted Fincantieri to build the 340-foot articulated tug barge (ATB), which is similar in design and appearance to…
Shark is building two welded-aluminum fireboats for the Anne Arundel County Fire Department in Maryland. The new 50 Defiant NXT monohull pilothouse fireboats were designed by the boat builder’s in-house engineering team and are now under construction at its Franklin, La. shipyard. The new builds were ordered to replace the department’s 20-year-old main fireboat, Lady Anne, which was built by MetalCraft Marine. When delivered,…
Houston-headquartered Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation has taken delivery of Cape Hatteras and Cape Canaveral – the first two Damen 3013 Multi Cats built in the U.S. Steel was first cut for the boats at the Conrad Shipyard in Morgan City, La. in July 2021. Fully compliant with U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers stability criteria, the two…