Industry veteran Bryan Nichols has been named manager of business development at Crowley Shipping, the company announced Tuesday.
With 30 years of experience, Nichols’ career has centered on helping to develop industry-leading solutions for ship assist and escort tugboats. Nichols handled business development for the last four years at Jensen Maritime, the Crowley group’s Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering subsidiary.
Bryan Nichols has been named manager of business...
Another milestone for hybrid workboat technology has been delivered on the West Coast: the 100’x40’ tugboat Delta Teresa, the latest tractor tug for San Francisco-based Baydelta Maritime.
It’s the seventh tractor tug that Nichols Brothers Boat Builders, Seattle, has built for Baydelta, but a dramatic departure with its dual diesel-electric propulsion system.
Designed by Jensen Maritime Consultants, Seattle, the hybrid concept as applied to tugboats aims to deliver on several fronts: reduced air...
The first of four in a new class of 100’x40’ Tier 4-powered tractor tugs for Seattle-based Foss Maritime is taking shape, after a formal keel laying Monday at the Nichols Brothers Boat Builders yard in Freeland, Wash.
“The new tugs are designed to upgrade our fleet and improve the company’s ability to provide timely harbor and port services to a variety of customers,” said John Parrott, president and CEO of Foss Maritime, in prepared remarks at the event.
“By offering lower maintenance down time,...
https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/nichols-brothers-lays-keel-for-first-of-new-foss-tugs/
Crowley Maritime Corp.’s Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering company, Jensen Maritime Consultants, has provided the detailed design for an initial four, with an option for six additional, Tier IV tractor tugboats being built by Nichols Brothers Boat Builders for Foss Maritime.
The 90-short ton bollard pull tugs are based on Jensen’s Valor tugboat design, of which nine have been successfully built and deployed to date and an additional five remain under design/construction....
https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/nichols-brothers-building-tugs-jensen-design/
Nichols Brothers Boat Builders, Freeland, Wash., has been awarded a contract to build two new high-speed passenger-only ferries for Kitsap Transit with an option for a third.
Kitsap Transit, Bremerton, Wash., launched a new fast-ferry service in July 2017 between Bremerton and downtown Seattle with plans to add service connecting Kingston and Southworth to Seattle. Earlier this year, Kitsap Transit purchased the Finest, a 350-passenger high-speed catamaran from NY Waterway and shipped it to...
Nichols Brothers Boat Builders (NBBB), Freeland, Wash., is building four new 90-ton bollard pull tractor tugs for Foss Maritime, Seattle. The contract has an option for six additional tugs and marks the first agreement between the two companies.
Foss has selected a design by Jensen Maritime Consultants, Seattle. The 100’x 40′ Z-drive tractor tugs will be built to Coast Guard Subchapter M regulatory standards, with ABS loadline certification, and UWILD notation.
Main propulsion will come from two...
https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/nichols-brothers-building-four-new-tractor-tugs-foss/
WorkBoat has named its 10 Significant Boats of 2018. This year’s list included four passenger vessels, two of them ferries. Other selections: two ATBs, a tug, water taxi, towboat, fire-rescue boat and an LNG bunker barge.
Six of the vessels were built at Gulf of Mexico shipyards, two were built at West Coast yards, and two at Great Lakes shipyards. The 10 boats will be recognized at an awards breakfast at the International WorkBoat Show on Thursday, Nov. 29. The breakfast will culminate with the...
https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/workboat-names-its-significant-boats-of-2018/