The addition of these vessels will expand and keep current Crowley’s fleet for customers of the company’s marine services business segment. During a ceremony held at Gunderson Marine on Northwest Front Avenue, Nicole Murphy, sister of Fontain Martin “Marty” Johnson III, christened the barge. The Marty J was so named as a tribute to Johnson, a nine-year Crowley employee who died while on a salvage assignment onboard the Cougar Ace in July of last year.
The senior naval architect, had worked on many high profile projects for Crowley including the Ehime Maru, the set down of the Osprey, a nine-month project in the Sakhalin Islands and the Victoria M salvage with the U.S. Navy as well as the design of these new heavy lift barges.
“We are pleased to offer the Marty J into service in support of the deepwater exploration projects of our customers in the petroleum industry,” said Tom Crowley, Jr., chairman, president and CEO.
“The naming of this vessel serves as a tribute to one of our former employees who made such an impact on his co-workers, this company and the industry in which he was involved. We hope that his legacy will continue in these American-flagged vessels that he helped to design.”
Crowley’s new Heavy Lift 455 Series 400-foot by 105-foot-wide barges
with 25-foot side shells will provide both the capacity and deck
strength needed to accommodate the favored larger units for offshore
exploration and development.
The barges offer increased stability for
loads up to 4,200 pounds per square foot in order to carry the larger
offshore structures now being planned and engineered for deepwater
projects. The barges will also be suitable for use in other regions,
including Alaska, where Crowley has regularly performed summer sealifts
to the North Slope.
Crowley expects to take delivery of the Marty J from the shipyard in about 10 days.
Oakland-based Crowley Maritime Corporation, founded in 1892, is
primarily a family and employee-owned company that provides diversified
transportation and logistics services in domestic and international
markets by means of four operating lines of business: Liner Services;
Logistics Services; Petroleum Services and Marine Services.
Other
services provided within these business lines include contract towing
and transportation; ship assist and escort; energy support; salvage and
emergency response; vessel management, and petroleum and chemical
transportation, distribution and sales. Additional information about
Crowley its subsidiaries and business units may be found on the
Internet at www.crowley.com.
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