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Crowley Adds Three Super ATBs To Petroleum Fleet |
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Friday, 28 September 2007 07:51 |
Crowley Maritime Corporation's Vessel Management Services has signed a contract with VT Halter Marine and Dakota Creek Shipyards to build three double-hulled ATB 330,000-barrel tank vessels that can travel in excess of 15 knots. The new vessels will be delivered in intervals starting in 2011 and ending in 2013. The new vessels will bring Crowley's petroleum fleet to 17.
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From Crowley Maritime Corporation:
(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.; September 27, 2007) Crowley Maritime Corporation’s Vessel Management Services subsidiary has signed a contract with VT Halter Marine Inc. and Dakota Creek Shipyards to build three articulated tug-barge (ATB), 330,000-barrel tank vessels, the largest in the company’s history and the fastest in their class. The new vessels will be delivered in yearly intervals between the second half of 2011 and the first half of 2013. VT Halter Marine will construct the barges, which will have 78 percent more capacity than Crowley’s 650-class vessels (185,000 – barrel capacity) in its shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. Dakota Creek will build the 16,320-horsepower tugs in its Anacortes, Wash., shipyard.
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