Server: Microsoft-IIS/2.0 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 18:59:17 GMT Content-Type: text/html Accept-Ranges: bytes Last-Modified: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 00:16:23 GMT Content-Length: 5999 Halter Marine Group, Inc. - Press Release

PRESS RELEASE
For release: August 18, 1997
Contact: A. J. Rizzo
Tel: 504-248-2237

 

HALTER WINS $9.7 MILLION CONTRACT TO BUILD 256 FOOT FERRY, VESSEL IS FIFTH HALTER FERRY FOR STATE OF TEXAS.

 

GULFPORT, Miss... Halter Marine, Inc. has been awarded a $9.7 million contract from the state of Texas Department of Transportation to construct a 256 foot passenger/vehicle ferry. The new 500 passenger, 70 vehicle ferry will be built at Halter's Moss Point Marine in Escatawpa, Miss. and delivery is planned for late summer of 1998. The new boat will operate between Port Bolivar and Galveston, Texas.

The ferry will be the fifth built by a Halter shipyard for the state of Texas. It will be 256 feet long with a 65 foot-four inch beam and a 10 foot-six inch maximum draft. It will be powered by two diesels developing 1250 BHP each, driving Voith-Schneider cycloidal propulsion and steering units mounted below the bow and stern. The units consist of vertically mounted, pivoting, controllable pitch blades suspended from a large diameter disc capable of 360 degree rotation, which eliminates the need for propellers. They give the captain excellent ability to steer, maneuver and stop the vessel. Halter Marine shipyards have built more vessels incorporating Voith-Schneider cycloidal propulsion units than any other U. S. shipbuilder.

Other Halter ferries built for the state of Texas are the MARK G. GOODE, B. L. De BERRY, J. C. DINGWALL, and the RAY STOKER, JR. In 1990, Halter re-powered and re-conditioned the 263 foot, 500 passenger/70 vehicle GIBB GILCHRIST, then the largest ferry in the Texas fleet. Halter shipyards have also built ferries for operations in Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, Puerto Rico, Panama and the Virgin Islands.

Halter is also currently building the KENNICOTT, an $80 million, 380 foot ferry for the state of Alaska which can accommodate 750 day-cruise passengers, 500 overnight cruise-passengers on ocean routes and 120 vehicles. It will have more than 100 staterooms providing at least 300 berths with three classes of cabins; first class, tourist class and roomettes, as well as a dining room, buffet line, play room, bar, solarium, theater and viewing lounges.

Halter Marine Group, Inc. includes 18 shipyards in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida. The company specializes in the design, construction, conversion and repair of a wide variety of vessels and mobile offshore rigs for commercial, government, and pleasure boat markets. Shipyards of the Halter Marine Group have built more than 2,000 vessels in the past 40 years.

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