Crowley inks ATB deal with VT Halter, Dakota Creek

摘要

Jacksonville, Florida-based Crowley Maritime keeps expanding its ATB fleet. Its Vessel Management Services subsidiary has signed a contract with VT Halter Marine Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., and Dakota Creek Shipyards, Anacortes, Wash., to build three articulated tug-barge (ATB), 330,000-barrel tank vessels that will be the company's largest and the fastest in their class. The ATB's will be delivered in yearly intervals between the second half of 2011 and the first half of 2013.