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Metal Shark delivered the 120'×35'×9' Stephanie Pas-entine to Florida Marine Transporters (FMT), Mandeville, La., on April 30. The new vessel represents several milestones for Metal Shark: its first inland towboat, first steel-built boat, and first newbuild from its new shipbuilding facility Metal Shark Alabama (previously Horizon Shipbuilding). Metal Shark, a builder of aluminum boats since 1986, acquired Horizon in Bayou La Batre, Ala., in June 2018, and began expanding the construction of steel vessels at the yard. Stephanie Pasentine, designed by John W. Gilbert Associates, Hingham, Mass., is the first of three welded-steel sisterships that are under construction for FMT at Metal Shark Alabama, along with a 70' steel Z-drive tug for the North Carolina Department of Transportation. That required increasing the number of employees from 23 when the shipyard was acquired in 2018 to 150 employ- ees. |