Bollinger delivers Alaskan ATB

LOCKPORT, La. - Bollinger Shipyards’ Amelia, La., fabrications facility delivered an articulated tug-barge (ATB) unit capable of transporting multiple clean petroleum products in the Alaska market to Crowley Fuels LLC – the Alaska-based petroleum transportation, distribution and sales unit of Crowley Maritime Corp of Jacksonville, Fla. Crowley provided vessel Construction Management services, at the Amelia facility. The company’s Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering firm, Jensen Maritime, provided the functional design. Bollinger’s engineering team provided the integration, detail design and construction package. “(T)he Bollinger team is proud to have built this ATB for Crowley Fuels,” said Bollinger Shipyards President/CEO Ben Bordelon. “Contracts like this to build Jones Act classed ATB units, create and protect many jobs for U.S. mariners, shipyards and ancillary vendors” and that strengthens the local/regional industrial base, makes Bordelon “extremely proud” to be a part of a workforce that continues to safely focus and deliver this “extremely unique, complex and very capable vessel.” The Alaska class ATB unit, measuring 128-feet long, was built to meet Ice Class and Polar Code requirements, which include increased structural framing and shell plating and extended zero discharge endurance. The double-hulled design also features a barge form factor to achieve high-cargo capacity on minimal draft. (Source: Bollinger Shipyards 04/21/20) Bollinger is among leading designers and builders of fast military patrol boats, ocean-going double hull barges, offshore oil field support vessels, tug boats, rigs, lift-boats, inland waterways push boats, barges, and other steel and aluminum products from its new construction shipyards. Bollinger has 10 shipyards located throughout Louisiana with direct access to the Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi River and the Intracoastal Waterway. Bollinger is the largest vessel repair company in the Gulf of Mexico region. http://www.bollingershipyards.com/blog/bollinger-delivers-articulated-tug-and-barge-unit-atb-to-crowley-fuels-l-l-c.