British Columbia-based Seaspan Marine Transportation has made changes to its senior leadership team following an organizational restructuring, the company has announced. Frank Butzelaar, who most recently served as Chief Executive Officer of Seaspan Marine, has assumed the role of Chief Operating Officer of the Washington Companies, Seaspan’s parent corporation. He will work with Larry Simkins, CEO of the Washington Companies, and oversee the strategic direction of subsidiaries Montana Rail Link, Seaspan Marine Transportation and Southern Railway of British Columbia. Ian McIver, previously the senior vice president of corporate development with Seaspan Marine, has been appointed president of Seaspan Marine Transportation,…
Seaspan Shipyards has been chosen by the Canadian government to design and build a Polar Icebreaker, the flagship of the Canadian Coast Guard’s icebreaking fleet, as part of the country’s National Shipbuilding Strategy program. The icebreaker, Seaspan’s fourth class of NSS vessel, is to be built at the company’s Vancouver shipyard, Seaspan revealed in early May. The vessel is to be built concurrently with the second Joint Support Ship for the Royal Canadian Navy, one of the largest naval vessels by length ever to be built in Canada, and one of the largest and most advanced ocean science research ships…
By Peter Marsh Manson Construction Co. of Seattle was established in 1905 by an enterprising Swedish immigrant and since the 1980s, the company has built or converted several trailing suction dredges designed by the Hockema Group that have set standards for capacity in their class, from the 265-foot Newport, with a hopper capacity of 4,000 cubic yards, to the 390-foot hopper dredge Glenn Edwards, launched in 2006 with a hopper capacity of 13,700 cubic yards. By 2008, Manson Vice President Henry Schorr was discussing the possibility of a bigger and more efficient version of the Glenn Edwards. This led to…
Seattle-based Elliott Bay Design Group has completed a weld engineering and inspection project for USNS SBX-1, a floating, self-propelled early-warning radar station designed to operate in high winds and heavy seas. SBX-1 was developed as part of the Defense Department’s Basic Missile Defense System. As the SBX-1 is a semi-submersible platform vessel, it was necessary to cut large access hatches in the hull columns to extract equipment being refurbished and replaced. The work required replacement and re-welding of the access cutouts in steel plating up to over 1.5 inches thick. EBDG officials said they developed an optimized weld procedure for…
Seemingly overnight, a new structure appeared on San Francisco’s waterfront. Situated at Pier 22½ just behind historic Firehouse 35 and nestled beside the Bay Bridge, this floating building is San Francisco’s new Fire Station 35. The facility is an answer to the city’s long-awaited need for updated fire and marine safety on the Bay. The overnight materialization of Fire Station 35 on San Francisco’s waterfront was due to the method in which it was built. To reduce public impact and avoid disruption along the bustling Embarcadero, the float and other marine components were delivered to the nearby, and less occupied,…