International Project Cargo Transportation Archives - Foss Maritime Company, LLC

Foss Assists in Hurricane Recovery

Waren Groom — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 13:24:45 +0000

The Project:

Working with a coalition of U.S. electric companies, and in coordination with first responders, Foss supported recovery efforts in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Foss delivered up to 600 utility trucks to assist in restoring power, housed first responders in three accommodation vessels or “floating hotels”, and produced and distributed thousands of meals to island residents.

Services Provided:

Project Management & Logistics
Ocean Towing

Highlights:

Foss supported 729 first responders, including workers from the U.S. Department of Defense, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and AmeriCorps.
“Floating hotels” housed hundreds of workers, and included homemade meals, sleeping quarters, and a home-base after long shifts.
The ocean-going tugs Lauren Foss and Corbin Foss stood alongside the accommodation vessels to provide additional support.
Foss delivered bucket trucks, line trucks, pickups, aerial lifts, CAT skid-steer loaders, digger derricks, and pull trailers, and also three barge loads of water.

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Foss Completes Multi-year Sakhalin Sealift

Waren Groom — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 13:07:58 +0000

The Project:

During the 2016 and 2017 ice-free seasons, Foss completed a major sealift to an oilfield development project on remote Sakhalin Island off the coast of eastern Russia – including delivery of the largest land-based drill rig in the world. Traveling more than 240,000 nautical miles, the project included multiple tows from Texas and South Korea. Fifteen barges, 15 ocean-going tugs, and six shallow-draft tugs safely and successfully delivered 39 modules weighing as much as 2,600 tons.

Services Provided:

International Project Cargo Transportation
Oil Field Services
Project Management and Logistics
Ocean Towing
Naval Architecture and Engineering

Highlights:

Land-based drill rig deconstructs into 14 modules for transportation from Brownsville, Texas, to Sakhalin Island, requiring five tug and barge sets.
Delivered 10 piperacks and 15 processing modules from Ulsan, South Korea.
Provided bathymetric surveying and placed navigation buoys and mooring anchors to account for ice coverage and changing navigable channels.
On-site teams provided engineering and naval architecture solutions, ballasting, stevedores, and local interface in Brownsville, Ulsan and Odoptu.
A dedicated project management team assisted in permitting and local compliance and managed local labor.

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Sealift to Alaskan North Slope

Waren Groom — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 12:34:17 +0000

The Project:

The Arctic Class Tug Denise Foss transported the drilling rig, Innovation, from Vancouver, WA, to Point Oliktok on the North Slope of Alaska. Traversing through challenging conditions, the vessel crews regularly consulted ice flight reconnaissance pilots and reviewed satellite weather data during the 2,300 nautical mile voyage. The crew successfully delivered the rig on time, and during the ice-free window for safe offloading conditions. Foss provided turnkey, port-to-port services, from loadout to offloading of the rig modules.

Services Provided:

Marine Transportation
Project Management
Project Cargo & Logistics
Ocean Towing
Naval Architecture

Highlights:

The sealift of the Innovation was segmented into five phases that included developing technical procedures and planning load out in Vancouver, towing to the North Slope, offload at Oliktok and demobilization and restoration of equipment.
Foss developed detailed technical plans for all stages, including: mooring, ballast and stow, stability assessments, and more.
The rig consists of a 500 kip telescoping mast, ‘box on box’ substructure, dual moving system, and 21 individual modules. In total, the structural weight is near 1.5 million pounds.

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Historic Final Voyage

charityg — Thu, 21 May 2015 16:40:36 +0000

The Project:

In 2014, Foss escorted the USS Constellation aircraft carrier on her historic final voyage. The Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier, nicknamed “Connie” by her crew, was successfully towed by ocean tug Corbin Foss from Bremerton Naval Shipyard to Brownsville, Texas to be retired and scrapped. The 16,000-mile journey took 160 days, with Foss guiding the massive vessel along Mexico and Central and South America, passing through the Straits of Magellan before heading north to Texas.

Services Provided:

Harbor Services
Ship Assist & Escort
Project Logistics
Voyage Planning
Ocean Towing

Highlights:

The USS Constellation is 1088 ft long, making it too large to travel through the Panama Canal, which is the traditional route to the Gulf Coast
Tug Lindsey Foss escorted the Connie from the Bremerton Naval Base to Blake Island where they handed the tow to the Corbin Foss
Completed the 16,000-mile journey in 160 days despite encountering gale force winds and massive seas
Orchestrated a global operations effort for fueling, pilots, assist tugs, and supplies in seven countries
Worked in a collaborative effort with a second tug company that assisted during the Pacific, South American portion of the tow

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Zadco Transport

charityg — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:51:20 +0000

The Project:

Foss Maritime’s ITB the Strong/Mariner transported two land-based self-moveable drill rigs measuring 11,022 cubic meters each, from Shanghai, China to a man made island 50 miles off the coast of Abu Dhabi. The shallow draft and RORO/LOLO capabilities of the vessel enabled direct delivery of the entire drill rig (per delivery) to the island. Foss provided project management including loading and discharging at the port with limited infrastructure. Foss’ ability to deliver directly to the island and to overcome the restrictive quay design eliminated the customer’s need to transship sensitive cargoes.

Services Provided:

International Project Cargo Transportation
Terminal Services
Cargo Tracking and Logistics
Project Management

Highlights:

The multi-deck, shallow draft ITB Strong/Mariner’s design, which includes two side ramps, bow ramp, and a 50-ton-capacity crane on its starboard side, makes it ideal for conducting cargo operations in underdeveloped ports
Each land-based self-moveable rig consisted of a drill structure/mast, a power unit, and a mud unit module
Route included traversing known pirate zones, and vessel security was hired to protect the sensitive cargoes
Provided full logistical management including a capacity simulation tool for UZ750 Logistics team and proper packaging of cargoes for ocean transport

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Massive Coke Drums Delivered

charityg — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 01:11:38 +0000

The Project:

Safely transported six huge coke drums from the Port of Los Angeles on an approximately 28-mile voyage to King Harbor in Redondo Beach for installation at Chevron’s El Segundo Refinery. Foss collaborated with heavy-lift company Mammoet USA, utilizing a detailed ballasting plan to keep the barge level during operations, which required the placement of ramps to load and unload. Self-propelled modular transporters (SPMTs) moved the cylinders from the barge moored at a levee in a yacht marina to a staging site near the final destination of the drums at the refinery.

Services Provided:

Oil Field Services
Domestic Project Cargo Transportation
Regional Towing

Highlights:

On three successive Mondays in February and March 2013, the drums were carried two at a time on the barge ZB 240 towed by the Edith Foss and assisted by the Pacific Queen.
Each coke drum is 100’ long x 28’ in diameter and weighs 500,000 pounds.
The new drums replace existing drums built in 1968. They will increase the
reliability of the coke drum operations and take advantage of more than 40 years
of industry advances in coke drum design.
Foss collaborated with Chevron, Mammoet USA and Fluor, a global engineering
construction company, to develop a complex and comprehensive transport safety
matrix for the project.
Attention to detail and commitment to the continual improvement process were
key to the success of these operations. Innovation developed from the first landing was incorporated into the second and third landings, such as doubling the wooden crane mats, securing them with an anchoring system and lashing them
together to improve the rock piling fendering system.

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Aid to Haiti

charityg — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:48:35 +0000

The Project:

Delivery of the first emergency food aid to Haiti after the massive January 2010 earthquake; delivery of military equipment and supplies and ongoing food aid; providing five sets of dedicated tugs and barges for liner assistance.

Services Provided:

Project Cargo & Logistics
Ocean Towing
Liner Services
Emergency & Ongoing
Food Aid Delivery

Highlights:

Delivered nearly 80,000 tons of food aid in 4,000 containers over eight-months
Provided five sets of dedicated ocean tugs and barges to deliver military supplies: 896 containers weighing 78,828 measurement tons
Provided 340’ x 94’ barge used for salvage operations and heavy lift cargo operations
First U.S. flagged company to provide a coordinated response with the U.S. government

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Doosan Crane Delivery

charityg — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 20:16:21 +0000

The Project:

Transported two Rail Mounted Quay Cranes from Masan, South Korea to Military Ocean Terminal, Sunny Point, North Carolina. Foss provided marine transportation services for Dongbang Transport Logistics Co. and Doosan Heavy Industries in support of US military operations at one of their primary east coast deep-water ports. The ocean voyage covered 10,834 nautical miles through hazardous weather conditions, and was successfully completed on schedule without incident.

Services Provided:

Turnkey Ocean Towing
Project Cargo & Logistics
Marine Engineering
Construction Support
Ballasting and Mooring
US Flag and Preference Cargo

Highlights:

Completed the 10,834 nautical mile journey in 71 days, and despite encountering three separate cyclones, delivered the cargo in good condition, on time, and on budget
Transported two large Container Handling Rail Mounted Quayside Cranes, totalling 1,900 metric tons each
Worked in a collaborative effort with Dongbang Transport Logistics Company and Doosan Heavy Industries, both based in South Korea
Designed and provided ballasting and mooring solutions in both South Korea and North Carolina, using both Foss Maritime management and ballasting crews at both ports

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Jacket Delivered to West Africa

charityg — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:53:43 +0000

The Project:

Transported a jacket, piles and wellhead structure from the United States Gulf of Mexico, to Equatorial Guinea in West Africa, in support of Noble Energy’s Alen Development Project. Upon delivery Heerema Marine Contractors installed the jacket and structures using their deep-water installation vessel the DCV Balder.

Services Provided:

Offshore Structure Transportation
Ocean Towing
Project Cargo & Logistics
Voyage Planning

Highlights:

The Corbin Foss towed a 400′ x 105′ x 20′ barge laden with the jacket, piles and wellhead
The four leg jacket weighed 1,500 tons, the four piles 650 tons and the wellhead structure 75 tons – with a total weight of 2,225 tons
Sailed over 10,000 nautical miles

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Motiva Refinery Expansion

charityg — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:46:25 +0000

The Project:

Transportation of oil-production modules from fabrication yards in Maine and South Carolina to a facility in Port Arthur, Texas in support of a $7 billion expansion project to create the largest refinery in the U.S. and the eighth largest in the world. Foss provided marine transportation services to the Bechtel Jacobs Joint Venture, which was the EPC contractor to Motiva Enterprises LLC (jointly owned by Saudi Refining, Inc. and Shell Oil Company).

Services Provided:

Module Transportation
Sea Fastening Analysis
Cargo Stow Planning
Mooring Analysis
Scheduling & Voyage Planning
Ballasting & Assist Tug Operations

Highlights:

Transported 103 modules, averaging 550 short tons with dimensions of 80’-140’ x 30’-50’ x 40’-65’
The heaviest module transported: 1,100 short tons
14 tows completed
Travelled 51,911 nautical miles over 311 sea days
Total cargo value: $490,000,000

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