Virginia & Texas Companies Win ShipBreaking Contracts

A Texas-based ship recycling facility has been awarded dismantling contracts for three more Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet "mothball" vessels, officials announced Monday.

Esco Marine, of Brownsville, Texas, was given the award to recycle the SS Dawn for about $551,000 and USNS H.H. Hess for about $452,000. The SS Bay's dismantling contract for about $397,000, has been awarded to the Bay Bridge Enterprises in Chesapeake, Va. All three merchant vessels were all built in the 1960s and are scheduled for December and January departures from the fleet.

BAE Systems San Francisco Ship Repair has been contracted to clean flaking paint and marine growth from the ships before they travel through the Panama Canal for Texas disposals.

The ships will be the 14th, 15th and 16th vessels to leave Benicia's coastal waters since October 2009. The U.S. Maritime Administration is under federal mandate to clean up the obsolete ships in this and two other moorings, in Virginia and Texas.

Source: By Times-Herald, Vallejo staff, Posted: 12/29/2010

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