Zidell Awarded
$8 MillionContract
For Double-Hulled Barge
Zidell Marine Corporation, Port-
land, Ore., was recently awarded an
$8 million contract, its largest-ever,
by Brix Maritime and British Petro-
leum (BP) for the construction of a
double-hulled petroleum barge.
According to Bill Globel, vice
president of Zidell, Inc., the 65,000-
barrel capacity barge, the first on
the West Coast to meet the U.S.
Coast Guard's proposed standards
for oil tankers under the Oil Pollu-
tion Act of 1990, will take over eight
months to complete.
BP, one of the world's five big-
gest oil companies and the largest
supplier of marine fuel in the North-
west, will use the barge primarily
to transport fuel for commercial ma-
rine vessels from its refinery in
Ferndale, Wash., to its West Coast
terminals in Portland, Seattle and
Port Angeles, Wash. BP will charter
the barge from Brix Maritime of Port-
land, who will provide the towing
service for the barge.
With a length of 328 feet, breadth
of 76 feet and 22-foot deep with a five-
foot trunk, the barge will weigh ap-
proximately 2,200 tons.
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committee's recent meeting in Pitts-
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is given for formal recognition of an
individual's outstanding contribu-
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of the largest voluntary standards
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