articulated tug/barge

Chouest WTIV feeders to be built to ABS class

ABS is to class the offshore wind feedering fleet of two tugs and two barges that Edison Chouest Offshore has ordered to support Maersk Supply Services innovative wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV). As we reported earlier, the WTIV feeder solution aims to open access to a greater number of U.S. ports logistically.

Chouest and Maersk Supply partner up on U.S. offshore wind installation

Using U.S.-built Jones Act compliant tugs and barges to ferry turbine components, Maersk Supply Service’s...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/chouest-wtiv-feeders-to-be-built-to-abs-class/

Master Boat Builders delivers tug for LNG bunkering ATB

In the latest development in the expansion of the U.S. LNG bunkering infrastructure, Coden, Ala., shipbuilder Master Boat Builders, Inc. has delivered the new 4,000 hp tug Polaris to Polaris New Energy.

It will be coupled with the recently delivered 5,500 cubic meter bunkering barge Clean Canaveral to form the largest Jones Act compliant articulated tug barge (ATB) providing LNG bunker fuel in the U.S.

“Master Boat Builders is committed to producing the most dependable and reliable tugs in the...

https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/coastal/master-boat-builders-delivers-tug-for-lng-bunkering-atb/

VIDEO: Crowley to deploy ice class ATB on new Alaska contract

Under a new U.S. Defense Logistics Agency-Energy contract, beginning in 2021, Crowley Maritime Corporation will deploy a new, purpose-built, 55,000-barrel-capacity (2.3 million gallon) articulated tug barge (ATB) to deliver military specification fuel to the Eareckson Air Station located on the remote Aleutian Island of Shemya, Alaska.

Called Aurora/Qamun, the ATB will serve the air station and Crowley’s customers throughout western Alaska and the Arctic and is specifically designed to meet Ice...

https://www.marinelog.com/coastal/tugs-barges/video-crowley-to-deploy-ice-class-atb-on-new-alaska-contract/

VT Halter hosts ceremony for Q-LNG’s new ATB

In November 2017, New Orleans-based Q-LNG Transport LLC awarded a contract to VT Halter Marine, Pascagoula, Miss., to build a first-of-its-kind (in the U.S.) liquid natural gas (LNG) articulated tug/barge (ATB) unit. The ATB consists of a 324’x64’x32’6″, 4,000-cu.-meter barge and a 128’x42’x21′ 5,100-hp tug.

Shane Guidry, Q-LNG Transport’s CEO (left), Sen. Roger F. Wicker, R-Miss. (center), and Ronald Baczkowski, president and CEO, VT Halter Marine (right) jointly announce the names of the barge...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/vt-halter-hosts-naming-ceremony-for-qlng-transports-new-atb/

OSG exercises option for second 204,000 bbl. tank barge

Overseas Shipholding Group Inc. (OSG), a provider of energy transportation services for crude oil and petroleum products in the U.S. Flag markets, announced that it has exercised an option to construct a second 204,000 bbl. oil and chemical ATB barge at Gunderson Marine LLC (GM), Portland, Ore.

The barge, scheduled for delivery in the second half of 2020, will be designed and built to be paired with one of the company’s existing tugs, replacing a rebuilt barge unit which is expected to be phased...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/osg-exercises-option-for-second-204000-bbl-tank-barge/