Blount Boats delivers icebreaking tug

Warren, R.I., shipbuilder Blount Boats reports that, on Friday, August 28, the 56-foot, twin-screw tug Breaker II completed its delivery voyage to the Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant, operated by New York

Teri LaForest joins Bristol Harbor Group

JULY 25, 2018 – Bristol Harbor Group, Inc. (BHGI) reports that the most recent addition to its naval architecture and marine engineering practice is Teri LaForest. She holds an M.S.E. in Naval

John Hunter joins Bristol Harbor Group

OCTOBER 4, 2017 — John Hunter, P.E. has joined Bristol, RI, based Bristol Harbor Group, Inc. (BHGI) as a senior naval architect. He holds a B.S. in Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

Ian Lawson joins Bristol Harbor Group, Inc.

AUGUST 28, 2017 — Ian Lawson has joined naval architecture and marine engineering firm Bristol Harbor Group, Inc., Bristol RI, as a naval architect. He holds a B.S. in Naval Architecture &

North America’s first LNG bunker barge nears launch

 The barge is under construction at Conrad Shipyard in Orange, TX, which has just hosted a tour where 200 participants at a USCG Liquefied Gas Senior Executive Forum got a chance to see its progress.

Hull construction of the 2,200 m3 barge is near complete and abrasive blasting and painting is scheduled to begin in the coming weeks.
The barge’s LNG Mark III Flex cargo containment system, designed by Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT), is scheduled to be installed immediately following the February launch.

The Bristol Harbor Group designed and ABS classed vessel will be outfitted with a 20 m bunker mast (custom fabricated by Conrad under GTT license) that will enable the barge to service a wide variety of vessels. It will also be equipped with six DH Industries StirLNG-4 cryocoolers sized to handle 125% of the vessel’s boil-off gas, along with other systems specifically designed for this vessel’s LNG bunkering application to deliver the coldest LNG to the end user.

The barge will be delivered to Jacksonville, FL in the third quarter of 2016 to service TOTE’s newbuild Marlin class LNG fueled container vessels and other LNG fueled vessels in and around the Port of Jacksonville and the Southeast.

CME is partnered with WesPac Midstream LLC (WesPac) and together with Pivotal LNG (Pivotal), a subsidiary of AGL Resources, will own and operate JAX LNG, a small scale liquefaction facility in the port of Jacksonville. The plant is planned to be commissioned during the first quarter of 2017 and will be capable of providing LNG to locations up and down the Florida and Georgia coasts.

Shearer Group to support LNG towboat conversion

NOVEMBER 22, 2015—Naval architectural and marine engineering firm The Shearer Group, Inc. (TSGI), Seabrook, TX, will join with Pittsburgh Region Clean Cities (PRCC) and Clean Fuels Clean Rivers (CFCR) to conduct a

Great Lakes Shipyard wins $5 million order for two tugs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014 — Great Lakes Shipyard, Cleveland, Ohio, has been contracted by New York Power Authority (NYPA) to build and deliver two new tugboats for the Authority’s Niagara River Ice Boom