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Career (United States) U.S. Ensign
Name: Tugboat Spence
Owner: TransAtlantic Lines[1]
Operator: TransAtlantic Lines[1]
Builder: Bollinger Machine Shop & Ship Yard Inc.[1]
Completed: September 1, 1974[1]
Identification:

Call sign WDC4261[2]

IMO number 7506780[2]
General characteristics
Tonnage: 189 GT[1]
Length: 27.78 m (91.1 ft)[1]
Beam: 7.92 m (26.0 ft)[1]
Depth: 3.50 m (11.5 ft) molded depth[1]
Capacity: 129 DWT[1]
Career (United States) U.S. Ensign
Name: Barge Guantanamo Bay Express
Owner: TransAtlantic Lines[3]
Operator: TransAtlantic Lines[3]
Builder: Misener Industries Inc.[3]
Completed: September 1, 1983[3]
General characteristics
Tonnage: 2529 GT[3]
Length: 76.2 m (250 ft)[3]
Beam: 21.95 m (72.0 ft)[3]
Depth: 4.88 m (16.0 ft) molded depth[3]
Approximate route of the tugboat Spense and barge Guantanamo Bay Express
Approximate route of the tugboat Spence and barge Guantanamo Bay Express

The Tugboat Spence and its Barge Guantanamo Bay Express are owned by American shipping company TransAtlantic Lines LLC. Together, these two vessels make a twice-monthly trip between Naval Station Mayport near Jacksonville, Florida and Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.[4] Each leg of the trip takes approximately 4 and 1/2 days and covers approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km).[4] Unloading the barge can take up to five days.[4]

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[edit] History

On June 13, 2001, TransAtlantic Lines won a contract with an estimated cumulative value of $16,738,001 for dedicated ocean liner cargo service to U.S. military installations in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.[5] This contract extended until June 30, 2004.[5] The government announced the requirements for the charter on the World Wide Web on December 4, 2000, and seven bids were received.[5] Military Traffic and Management Command in Alexandria, Virginia, is the contracting activity.[5]

On February 14, 2002 the Department of Defense announced an award of contract DAMT01-02-D-0025, a $17,923,770 firm-fixed-price contract for the tug and barge combination.[6] The contract required provision of international cargo transportation services using ocean common or contract carrier offering regularly scheduled commercial liner service for requirements that may arise in any part of the world.[6] Service includes dedicated ocean, inter-modal, and related transportation services primarily between the Continental United States and Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.[6] There were seven bids solicited on September 26, 2001, and seven bids received.[6] Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.[6] The Military Traffic Management Command located in Alexandria, Virginia was the contracting activity.[6]

On November 11, 2004, while leaving Mayport, Florida en route to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the tow wires connecting the tug and barge parted, causing the barge to run aground.[7] At the time of the accident, the vessels were experiencing thirty knot wind gusts and 12-foot (3.7 m) seas.[7] Extensive bottom damage and breaches to all port side voids were reported.[7] The barge was refloated and delivered to the owners the following day.[7] The vessels were owned by Pac-Atlantic Marine Leasing, LCC at the time.[8]

from:http://www.gao.gov/docdblite/details.php?accno=A32758 Summary

TransAtlantic Lines, LLC B-296245, B-296245.2 July 14, 2005 (5 pages) PDF HTML

TransAtlantic Lines, LLC (TAL) protests the award of a contract to Strong Vessel Operators, LLC (SVO) under request for proposals (RFP) No. W81G4E-04-R-0053, issued by the Department of the Army for regularly scheduled cargo transportation services to and from Jacksonville, Florida and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. TAL contends that the awardee's proposal should have been rejected as technically unacceptable for failure to comply with the solicitation's requirement for self-sustaining refrigerated containers. TAL also contends that the award is improper because the solicitation failed to include a mandatory subcontracting limitation provision.

We deny the protest.


[edit] Guantanamo Bay Express

Prior names:

  • COLUMBIA BOSTON 12 Oct 1988 23 Jan 2002[3]
  • BOSTON TRADER 01 Jan 1985 12 Oct 1988[3]
  • MCALLISTER DISPATCHER 01 Jan 1985[3]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i American Bureau of Shipping 2008, Spence.
  2. ^ a b United States Coast Guard 2008, Spence.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r American Bureau of Shipping 2008, Guantanamo Bay Express.
  4. ^ a b c Morris, Spc. Joseph A.; Pisano, Spc. Chris S. (2002-07-05). Living and dying by the barge. The Wire. Joint Task Force 160. Retrieved on 2007-09-26.
  5. ^ a b c d Department of Defense, 2001.
  6. ^ a b c d e f U.S. Department of Defense, February 14, 2002.
  7. ^ a b c d Titan Beats Time Before Barge Breaks Up. Maritime Journal. Mercator Media (2005-01-01). Retrieved on 2007-09-26.
  8. ^ Guantanamo bound barge grounds. MarineLog.com (2004-11-12). Retrieved on 2007-09-26.

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Vessels of TransAtlantic Lines
Current fleet
MV Baffin Strait  · MV Transpacific  · MV Geysir  · Barge Guantanamo Bay Express  · Tugboat Spence

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