Three more MARAD ships for recycling

Archiv – United States | The US Maritime Administration (MARAD) has signed fee-for-service contracts to recycle three more of its obsolete ships. Two ships, the ’Hattiesburg Victory’ and the ’Pioneer Contractor’, are from the Beaumont Reserve Fleet in Texas; another, the oiler Savannah, is from the James River Reserve Fleet in Virginia.
According to MARAD, it has moved 118 ships out of its National Defense Reserve Fleet sites since 2001.United States | The US Maritime Administration (MARAD) has signed fee-for-service contracts to recycle three more of its obsolete ships. Two ships, the ’Hattiesburg Victory’ and the ’Pioneer Contractor’, are from the Beaumont Reserve Fleet in Texas; another, the oiler Savannah, is from the James River Reserve Fleet in Virginia.
According to MARAD, it has moved 118 ships out of its National Defense Reserve Fleet sites since 2001. The new contracts leave 24 ships in the James River awaiting disposal and without disposal contracts, as well as 10 such ships in Beaumont.
The ’Hattiesburg Victory’ is one of the few remaining Victory ships built during World War II. It will be recycled by Esco Marine Inc. of Brownsville, Texas, at a cost to the federal government of US$ 1.016 million. The ’Savannah’, a 1970-vintage ex-Navy oil replenishment ship, will also be recycled by Esco at a cost of US$ 515 726. The break-bulk cargo ship ’Pioneer Contractor’, constructed in 1963 as the ’American Contractor’, will be recycled by Marine Metal, Inc. of Brownsville for US$ 321 000.