With delays in getting parts for the assembly, there was a hold up in the delivery of the first of Penn Maritime's new tugs from Thoma-Sea Boatbuilders in USA.
The first of five, ‘Skipjack', is nearing completion and will be delivered in May. In a near assembly-line production process the second vessel, ‘Coho', will launch sometime in May and deliver in August. The other tugs are already taking shape and will follow on a regular schedule. Following its delivery the ‘Skipjack' will travel to New Orleans to meet up with a 90,000-barrel barge that will come down from its builders at Corn Island Shipyard on the Ohio River in Indiana. Cummins QSK60 engines turning skewed props in Nautican Nozzles with shutter rudders power the 3,000kW Penn tugs. The coupling system is a JAK-400.
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