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March, 2006 • MarineNews 5 NEWS Bollinger to Build 28,000 BBL Barge Outboard profile and deck plan of the 28,000 BBL Double Hull, OPA'90 Lakes, Bays & Sounds tank barge to be built by Bollinger Marine Fabricators in Amelia, La. for Progressive Barge Line. Bollinger Marine Fabricators, LLC, (BMF) Amelia, La., signed a contract with Progressive Barge Line, Inc., New Orleans, La. for the construction of a lead- ing edge double hull OPA '90 Lakes, Bays and Sounds tank barge. The Bollinger hull # 505, will have capacity of 28,000 bar- rels (BBL) and is a near sister ship to four similar hulls also under construction at the active BMF facility for another operator. Elliot Bay Design Group performed the design and engineering package in sup- port of Bollinger. Hull #505 will be built primarily for bunkering services on the Mississippi River and throughout the port of New Orleans. The barge will be built in accor- dance with ABS rules and certified by U.S. Coast Guard for rivers, lakes, bays and sounds service for carriage of Grade A products and below. It will be subdi- vided into six cargo tanks, each with pipe coils for heating cargo. The heater sys- tem will be a four million BTU Hopkins Volcanic, with two-in. piping coils lining the bottom of each cargo tank for opti- mum heat distribution. The 28,000 BBL capacity barge will measure 297.6-ft. in length, with a 54-ft. beam and 13-ft. depth. Delivery is planned for the third quarter of 2006. Blue Chip Casino Vessel Delivered Jamestown Metal Marine Sales, Inc. delivered the completed Blue Chip 2 casi- no vessel to Boyd Gaming Corporation's Blue Chip Casino's Michigan City, Ind., facility. The new vessel, which replaces the former vessel, is approximately 400 x 200 ft. and provides about 65,000 sq. ft. of gaming area on a single deck. In addition to the gaming area there is another 82,000 sq. ft. of back of house and future gaming areas on other decks. Jamestown began the on-site construction project in the late fall of 2004 with the erection of steel units in the construction basin specially con- structed for the project. Over the succeed- ing 14 months Jamestown, working with its key subcontractors and suppliers, pro- duced the largest casino vessel ever built in the U.S., including hull fabrication and erection, machinery and mechanical installation, electrical installation, interior 451 Ultra Dynamics Marine, LLC 1110A Claycraft Road, Columbus, Ohio 43230, U.S.A. Tel: (614) 759 9000 Email: sales@ultradynamics.com Pilot Boat exceeds design speed by 33%. www.ultradynamics.com 6 I S I T U S A T W W W M O O S E B O A T S C O M O R C A L L ' / - / / 3 % . O . O N S E N S E 3 E R I O U S " O A T S ! L L B O A T S A R E A V A I L A B L E O N ' 3 ! # O N T R A C T ' 3 & - - O O S E " O A T S - . - A R C H P D F 0 - Circle 230 on Reader Service Card Circle 243 on Reader Service Card MARCH MN2006 1(1-8).qxd 3/3/2006 2:11 PM Page 5
