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VT Halter Marine awarded $350M contract for two container ships
VT Halter Marine, Inc. announced Monday it secured an approximately $350 million contract with Crowley Maritime Corporation to build two container roll-on/roll-off ships.
The vessels will be built at the Pascagoula facility with construction beginning the first half of 2014, and deliveries in mid- and late-2017.
The containerships measure 219.5 meters long and 32.3 meters wide, with a depth of 10 meters featuring the latest systems technology for safety, reliability, and will be powered by environmentally-friendly liquefied natural gas.
The vessel design is provided by Wartsila Ship Design.
The ConRo project maintains VT Halter Marine's backlog and significantly contributes to its long-term growth strategy.
VT Halter Marine recently placed a floating drydock into service providing repair for oil field support vessels, barges, coastal ships and U.S. government vessels, semi-submersible drilling rigs and other Panamax-size ships.
VT Halter Marine is currently building 10 320-foot platform supply vessels for Hornbeck Offshore, a 720-foot ConRo ship for Pasha Hawaii Shipping Company, two articulated tug barge units for Bouchard Transportation, four fast missile crafts for NAVSEA, and a T-AGS class ocean surveillance ship for the U.S. Navy.
"VT Halter Marine is pleased and excited about the award of this contract as we continue our longstanding relationship with Crowley," said Bill Skinner, VT Halter Marine CEO.
Skinner said the start of these new LNG ConRo ships is a culmination of a lengthy pre-contract engineering and approval cycle that allowed both companies to better understand the complexity of LNG power, resulting "in a ship that fits exactly to Crowley requirements from the start."
Source: The Sun Herald
The vessels will be built at the Pascagoula facility with construction beginning the first half of 2014, and deliveries in mid- and late-2017.
The containerships measure 219.5 meters long and 32.3 meters wide, with a depth of 10 meters featuring the latest systems technology for safety, reliability, and will be powered by environmentally-friendly liquefied natural gas.
The vessel design is provided by Wartsila Ship Design.
The ConRo project maintains VT Halter Marine's backlog and significantly contributes to its long-term growth strategy.
VT Halter Marine recently placed a floating drydock into service providing repair for oil field support vessels, barges, coastal ships and U.S. government vessels, semi-submersible drilling rigs and other Panamax-size ships.
VT Halter Marine is currently building 10 320-foot platform supply vessels for Hornbeck Offshore, a 720-foot ConRo ship for Pasha Hawaii Shipping Company, two articulated tug barge units for Bouchard Transportation, four fast missile crafts for NAVSEA, and a T-AGS class ocean surveillance ship for the U.S. Navy.
"VT Halter Marine is pleased and excited about the award of this contract as we continue our longstanding relationship with Crowley," said Bill Skinner, VT Halter Marine CEO.
Skinner said the start of these new LNG ConRo ships is a culmination of a lengthy pre-contract engineering and approval cycle that allowed both companies to better understand the complexity of LNG power, resulting "in a ship that fits exactly to Crowley requirements from the start."
Source: The Sun Herald
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