摘要: |
Day three of this year's Greater New Orleans Barge Fleeting Association (GNOBFA) River & Marine Industry Seminar tackled a common, yet complicated and potentially costly, scenario for towboat operators and emergency responders alike: an incident involving a towboat that results in a pollution event in a waterway. The entire last session of the annual event focused on a hypothetical scenario involving a towboat, the "mv. Savoie," pushing a 30,000-barrel tank barge, the "Karl G," on the Lower Mississippi River in the New Orleans harbor. The tow-boat had just discharged 1,500 metric tons of VLSFO (very low sulfur fuel oil) to a vessel at Nine Mile Anchorage and was approaching a terminal in Chalmette, La., just below New Orleans, to load VLSFO for its next bunker job. In the scenario, the barge was currently loaded with 700 metric tons of VLSFO and 200 metric tons of ULSD (ultra-low-sulfur diesel). |