Marinette Marine Lighterage System Tested for Ship-Shore Cargo Transfers

摘要

The Navy is evaluating a new system of 29 modular barges that can be assembled quickly into floating ferries or causeways to transport vehicles and cargo between ship and shore. The Improved Modular Lighterage System (INLS), built by Mani-towoc's Marinette Marine in Marinette, Wis., under a $404 million contract, is designed to provide the Navy and Marine Corps a safer, more versatile method to deliver material from a sealift or preposi-tioning ship to shore during wartime or such peacetime operations as disaster relief.