The City of Cleveland Authorizes the Sale of Property Adjacent to The Great Lakes Towing Company Headquarters for the Expansion of Great Lakes Shipyard in Order to Operate at Full Capacity Year-Round

The City of Cleve­land unan­i­mous­ly approved an ordi­nance autho­riz­ing the Direc­tors of Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment and Pub­lic Util­i­ties to enter into a Project Agree­ment with The Great Lakes Tow­ing Com­pa­ny for the sale and devel­op­ment of prop­er­ty locat­ed gen­er­al­ly at Cres­cent Avenue and West 53 Street adja­cent to Great Lakes Ship­yard at 4500 Divi­sion Avenue, Cleve­land, Ohio. The land acqui­si­tion con­sist­ing of Parcels A, B & C will take place in three (3) phases.

Shipyard to Operate at Full Capacity Year-Round 

The expan­sion of Great Lakes Ship­yard will include an approx­i­mate­ly 68,000 square foot facil­i­ty that will accom­mo­date the state-of-the-art 770-ton mobile Marine Trav­elift crane (the 3^rd largest in the world and largest on the Great Lakes) in order for the Ship­yard to oper­ate at full capac­i­ty year-round. The expan­sion will also include relo­ca­tion of the cur­rent park­ing lot to make way for recon­fig­u­ra­tion of the com­pa­ny’s exist­ing site, to fur­ther increase effi­cien­cies and capacity.

Shipyard Services for New Construction, Repairs & Subchapter M Compliance

With the expand­ed facil­i­ty, Great Lakes Ship­yard will con­tin­ue to pro­vide all ser­vices for new ves­sel con­struc­tion new work­boats and barges, truck­able prod­ucts, cus­tom fab­ri­ca­tion, ship main­te­nance and repairs as well as the ser­vices required for the new USCG reg­u­la­tions, Sub­chap­ter M. This reg­u­la­tion requires all tow­ing ves­sels greater than 26 feet or any ves­sel mov­ing dan­ger­ous or haz­ardous mate­ri­als to obtain a Cer­tifi­cate of Inspec­tion (COI), documenting:

• Dry­dock Inspection
• Inter­nal Struc­ture Exam
• Annu­al Inspec­tion & Surveys
• Machin­ery & Electrical

Great Lakes Ship­yard has dry­docked more USCG ves­sels than any ship­yard on the Great Lakes. With over 116 years in the tug­boat and ship­yard indus­tries, no one is more expe­ri­enced or qual­i­fied to assist with Sub­chap­ter M com­pli­ance. As the largest own­er and oper­a­tor of a U.S.-flag tug­boat fleet on the Great Lakes sub­ject to the same Sub­chap­ter M reg­u­la­tions – The Com­pa­ny knows what it takes to com­ply and for this rea­son, Great Lakes Ship­yard is unique­ly qual­i­fied and expe­ri­enced to pro­vide all required ser­vices nec­es­sary to com­ply with Sub­chap­ter M:

• Best-in-Class Ship­yard Ser­vices & Capabilities
• World-Class Ship­yard & Facility
• State-of-the-Art 770-Ton Marine Travelift
• Full-Ser­vice Sub­chap­ter M Ser­vice Con­tract is Flex­i­ble & Economical
• Sub­chap­ter M Con­sult­ing & Advice
• Tug­boat Loan­er Program

Damen Partnership

The Great Lakes Tow­ing Com­pa­ny & Great Lakes Ship­yard have entered into a part­ner­ship with Damen Ship­yards, in which Damen will pro­vide engi­neer­ing for its proven designs and Great Lakes Ship­yard will receive full con­struc­tion, design and engi­neer­ing sup­port from Damen. Great Lakes Ship­yard plans to build two (2) new Damen-designed tug­boats each year for the next five (5) years at the Shipyard’s facil­i­ty in Cleve­land, Ohio. Addi­tion­al­ly, Damen will pro­vide design and engi­neer­ing ser­vices for the expan­sion of the ship­yard and new 68,000 square foot facility.