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Update INLAND • COASTAL OFFSHORE • DEEPSEA hile no ship recycling regulations are currently in force, ship operators need to be thinking about them. One of the companies ahead of the curve is Seattle-based Crowley Maritime Services. Its new double-hull ocean tank barge 650-3 became the first vessel in the U.S. to be certified by Lloyd’s Register as complying with the requirements of the IMO Green Passport program. The certification ensures that potentially hazardous materials that went into the construction of the barge have been recorded and will be properly disposed of when it ceases trading at the end of its service life. The 650-3, christened in Mobile, Ala., last month, is the third in a series of ten 185,000bbl Articulated Tug-Barge (ATB) tank units that will join Crowley’s fleet by the end of 2010. Crowley also took delivery of the power unit for the 650-3, the 9,280 hp-tug Resolve. Crowley’s Petroleum Services group will charter the ATB from VMS, and operate it for BP Shipping USA under a sevenyear agreement. Crowley already has four, 155,000-bbl ATB’s and two 185,000-bbl ATB’s operating. Green passport for Crowley barge W biz NOTES Foss joins SmartWay Seattle-based Foss Maritime joined the SmartWay Transport Partnership, a voluntary collaboration between U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the truckers, rail, freight shippers and logistics companies designed to increase energy efficiency while significantly reducing greenhouse gases and air pollution. By improving the environmental performance of marine operations, the partnership wants to reduce CO2 emissions by 33 to 66 million metric tons and NOx emissions by up to 200,000 tons per year by 2012. Earlier this year, Foss unveiled plans to build a hybrid harbor tug at its own shipyard in Rainier, Ore., for operation in the Port of Los Angeles. The 27,000 dwt 650-3 is 587 ft long with a beam of 74 ft, depth of 40 ft and fully loaded draft of 30 ft Massive engines for APL APL has ordered eight 14cylinder MAN B&W 14K98MEC7 engines, each generating a massive 84,280 kW or 115,000 bhp at 104 rev/min, to power eight 10,000 TEU ships from Korean builders. When built, the diesel engines will be the most powerful ever installed in a ship. In placing its order, APL aligns itself with other major containership owners, such as Hapag Lloyd, NVA, OOCL, NYK and K-Line who have also selected MAN B&W K98ME-C engines with electronic controls. Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries and Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. will each build four of the new APL ships, with delivery set for 2011. SEPTEMBER 2007 MARINE LOG 7 “We continue to receive positive feedback about these ATB’s, which further validates our continued investment in the build program,” says Crowley chairman, president & CEO Tom Crowley Jr. Crowley and shipbuilder VT Halter Marine, Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., jointly designed the ATB tank vessel. The barge 650-3 was built at VT Halter’s shipyard in Pascagoula, and the Resolve at its shipyard in Moss Point, Miss. All of Crowley’s ATB’s are built under the ABS SafeHull program, which involves an exhaustive review to identify structural loads and strengthen the vessel structure. Petrobras in FPSO deal for U.S. Gulf THE FIRST FPSO FOR THE U.S. Gulf of Mexico moved one step closer to reality last month. That step was taken by Petrobras America Inc., which selected BW Offshore Ltd. for the conversion, installation and operation of an Floating Production, Storage and Offloading www.marinelog.com (FPSO) vessel at the Chinook Cascade fields in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. It will be installed on a water depth of 2,600m— thought to be the deepest ever for an FPSO. The deal is subject to the approval of the Petrobras board and the fields’ partners. Confir- mation is expected before Oct. 5, 2007. BW Offshore’s subsidiary, Advanced Production & Loading (APL) will supply a complete Submerged Turret Production (STP) buoy and mooring system for the project. http://www.marinelog.com

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