Long Beach, Ca.-based Curtin Maritime has said it will initially deploy its recently acquired vessel, Edna C, to Houston, where it will work alongside the DB Ironbound, a multi-functional ABS barge paired with a Lima 2400B 150-ton crawler crane.
After several months in Texas, the company said, the small push boat will be transported to California for a repower conversion, and eventually be used to support Curtin Maritime’s expanded operational and service profile in San Diego.
Curtin Maritime’s enhanced San Diego operations will include marine transportation, marine construction, and vessel design and construction with a “full-time, dedicated fleet of floating cranes, tugboats, and barges,” the company said in a statement.
“Our operations are supported by a capable fleet of assets encompassed of not only tugs and barges, but also inclusive of associated auxiliary equipment” including anchor systems, hydraulic packs, and generators,” it added.
“Easy accessibility to equipment offers us an advantage to mobilize quickly; it also provides more opportunities to swiftly contrive more efficient solutions in the field.”
The Edna C. was originally built in 1998 by St. Paul Navigation.