Penn Maritime completes building program with latest Fin-class ATB

摘要

Perm Maritime, of Stamford, Conn., has completed a five-vessel construction program with recent delivery of the 4,000-hp ATB offshore tug Mako, the 15 th ATB to join the Penn fleet. Mako is a 116-foot, 4,000-hp tug with a single, raised pilothouse, Cummins engine power and a JAK coupler system. Upon delivery in late 2010, she was matched with a new 90,000-bbl heated asphalt and petroleum barge, Penn No. 95, built last year by Corn Island Shipyard of Lamar, Ind. Like others of the same Fin class, the tug Mako was built by Thoma-Sea Boat Builders, of Houma, La., over the past few years. The tug was designed by Frank Basile of Entech & Associates. She is outfitted with a JAK 400 coupler system with pneumatically operated 16-inch diameter pins using any of eight sockets on each wing of the barge skeg for receptacles.