KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana |Barge heads to Texas with Maine-made modules
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Associated Press - March 27, 2009 5:45 AM ET
BREWER, Maine (AP) - A barge carrying four massive steel modules to be used in an oil refinery project has left Brewer for what's expected to be a 15- to 20-day trip to Port Arthur, Texas.
Scores of people lined the Penobscot River on Thursday to watch the seagoing tug Emma Foss haul the 350-foot barge from Cianbro Corp.'s Eastern Manufacturing Facility in Brewer.
The modules, which weigh up to 700 tons each, are the first of 53 such units being built at the former paper mill site for the Motiva Enterprises expansion.
About 10 to 12 barge shipments are expected to make the 2,500-mile voyage before the refinery project goes on line in early 2012.
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