the time, if somebody gets hurt, it has something to do with lines. Capt. Sullivan notes that preventing one back injury could pay for the coupling system. Land-Office Business on the Water? K-Sea ordered eight 28,000-barrel barges from Bollinger, the last of which was due to be delivered while this article was being printed. Capt. Sullivan says that the new equipment, which will be used at K-Sea facilities in Philadelphia and Norfolk as well as New York, partly represents an increase in capacity for the company, to serve a clientele that has grown. Of course, with the upper limit of OPA 90 now only six years away, a lot of equipment needs either to be rebuilt in double-skin form, or replaced altogether with the protective construction. December 31, 2014 is coming at a fixed rate of speed, and at exactly that same speed more equipment is reach-
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