Erie Shipbuilding is finishing up work on the KAREN ANDRIE and A-397 and is busy setting blocks in the drydock for MICHIPICOTEN.
The first of the next two deck barges is finished and crews are currently waiting for paint to dry on it. The four sections of the second barge are awaiting assembly.
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Sunday, March 2, 2008
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Erie Shipbuilding, Winter Layup Update
As I have written here in the past, Erie Shipbuilding is nearing completion of a financing deal to begin building a sister tug-barge to the GREAT LAKES TRADER, along with a sister tug to the JOYCE L. VANENKEVORT. The $50 million project is estimated to taken nine months or so to complete, but in reality will probably take much longer.
The last of the six deck barges under construction by the company is to be completed and will be moved from drydock sometime this week. According to Erie Shipbuilding CEO Ned Smith the company has signed a contract for another two deck barges and is negotiating to sign another contrack for an additional two deck barges.
As far as work for this winter, as I have reported already this month, three vessels are expected in port. One, the tug-barge unit KAREN ANDRIE/A-397, is already in port. The PRESQUE ISLE is due in Erie for the Mountfort Terminal on the morning of January 17, and the CASON J. CALLAWAY will follow her that afternoon to the Old Ore Dock. It's also possible that another vessel may winter here, but if that happens it will likely be a Canadian vessel that arrives late this month or in February after running late shuttling coal or salt on the Great Lakes.
Along with Erie Shipbuilding, Great Lakes Electrical Services, O-N Minerals and Lakeshore Towing will be completing work on the vessels this winter. Great Lakes Electrical and O-N Minerals will be working on all of the vessels; Lakeshore Towing will perform any towing work needing completed for any of the vessels in layup. Lakeshore Towing will this week tow the cofferdam built for the PRESQUE ISLE from Erie Shipbuilding to the Mountfort Terminal, and later this winter divers from Lakeshore will sink the cofferdam to install it under the starboard side of the PRESQUE ISLE. Lakeshore's divers will complete any underwater work needing done on the layup fleet as well.
The winter of 2007-08 is looking to be extremely busy in Erie harbor. Keep watching as I will continue to report on the happenings around the harbor.
GREAT LAKES TRADER, which would be a sister to the new barge ESB is in negotiations to build, is shown outbound Erie on January 26, 2007.
JOYCE L. VANENKEVORT is shown pushing the TRADER, January 26, 2007.
Underneath the port propellor of the PRESQUE ISLE, March 12, 2007.
The last of the six deck barges under construction by the company is to be completed and will be moved from drydock sometime this week. According to Erie Shipbuilding CEO Ned Smith the company has signed a contract for another two deck barges and is negotiating to sign another contrack for an additional two deck barges.
As far as work for this winter, as I have reported already this month, three vessels are expected in port. One, the tug-barge unit KAREN ANDRIE/A-397, is already in port. The PRESQUE ISLE is due in Erie for the Mountfort Terminal on the morning of January 17, and the CASON J. CALLAWAY will follow her that afternoon to the Old Ore Dock. It's also possible that another vessel may winter here, but if that happens it will likely be a Canadian vessel that arrives late this month or in February after running late shuttling coal or salt on the Great Lakes.
Along with Erie Shipbuilding, Great Lakes Electrical Services, O-N Minerals and Lakeshore Towing will be completing work on the vessels this winter. Great Lakes Electrical and O-N Minerals will be working on all of the vessels; Lakeshore Towing will perform any towing work needing completed for any of the vessels in layup. Lakeshore Towing will this week tow the cofferdam built for the PRESQUE ISLE from Erie Shipbuilding to the Mountfort Terminal, and later this winter divers from Lakeshore will sink the cofferdam to install it under the starboard side of the PRESQUE ISLE. Lakeshore's divers will complete any underwater work needing done on the layup fleet as well.
The winter of 2007-08 is looking to be extremely busy in Erie harbor. Keep watching as I will continue to report on the happenings around the harbor.
GREAT LAKES TRADER, which would be a sister to the new barge ESB is in negotiations to build, is shown outbound Erie on January 26, 2007.
JOYCE L. VANENKEVORT is shown pushing the TRADER, January 26, 2007.
Underneath the port propellor of the PRESQUE ISLE, March 12, 2007.
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Erie Shipbuilding Prospects Looking Up
Things are looking up for Erie Shipbuilding. Construction for the new dumpscow continues and is due to wrap up in late June or early July, pending American Bureau of Shipping approval. At the same time, six 165 foot deck barges for the same operator are due to be delivered in June, July, August, and possibly September, depending on how well construction progresses.
The company is preparing to begin construction on the new 840-foot tug/barge unit that will be a sister to the JOYCE L. VANENKEVORT/GREAT LAKES TRADER, according to Saturday's Erie Times-News.
Meanwhile, at Friday's Port Authority meeting, the Authority board approved construction of a new $300,000 to $400,000 building at the north end of the yard's fabrication shop. The building will house part of an assembly line process. The building should be completed within 3 to 4 months.
Things are truly looking up for a yard that just two short years ago had absolutely no prospects for ever doing anything again, as Metro Machine had abandoned the yard.
The company is preparing to begin construction on the new 840-foot tug/barge unit that will be a sister to the JOYCE L. VANENKEVORT/GREAT LAKES TRADER, according to Saturday's Erie Times-News.
Meanwhile, at Friday's Port Authority meeting, the Authority board approved construction of a new $300,000 to $400,000 building at the north end of the yard's fabrication shop. The building will house part of an assembly line process. The building should be completed within 3 to 4 months.
Things are truly looking up for a yard that just two short years ago had absolutely no prospects for ever doing anything again, as Metro Machine had abandoned the yard.
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