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C & C Marine & Repair Inc

shipyard Belle Chasse, LA, United States

C&C Marine and Repair LLC is a full-service shipyard founded in 1997 and located at 701 Engineers Rd. in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, in the New Orleans area with access to Gulf Coast waterways. The company builds towboats, tugboats, cutter suction dredges and dredging support vessels, barges, offshore supply vessels and specialty craft, and also performs barge repair, residing programs and vessel conversions. Its operations include integrated onsite engineering, indoor construction bays with overhead cranes, and a patented robotic blast and paint facility that has processed more than 700 barges. The yard states it works to ABS and USCG certified welding and construction processes and has recently expanded into government vessel construction.

C & C Marine & Repair Inc

C&C Marine and Repair LLC was founded in 1997 and operates a shipyard in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, describing itself as one of the most efficient small shipyards in the United States. The company combines new vessel construction with repair, conversion, and surface preparation work, and emphasises integrated onsite engineering, indoor construction, and on-time, on-budget delivery. It reports more than 200 vessels delivered since 1997.

Services

  • New vessel construction: towboats, tugboats, dredges, dredge support vessels, barges, OSVs and specialty vessels
  • Barge residing programs stated to extend barge life by up to 25 years; new construction barge series
  • Barge structural repair, barge conversion and major vessel conversions on a project-by-project basis
  • Emergency barge repairs and regulatory compliance upgrades (ABS, USCG)
  • Blast and paint services via a patented robotic blast facility; NDT capabilities
  • In-house engineering and design: naval architecture, structural engineering, systems design, 3D modeling using SSI ShipConstructor; 8+ full-time engineers and naval architects
  • Government vessel construction — first project was landing craft for the U.S. Marine Corps as a subcontractor to Birdon Group

Facilities

  • 100+ acre Belle Chasse yard with 10 construction bays and indoor construction
  • 22 overhead cranes (10–50 ton), 8 crawler cranes, 8 KAMAG heavy-lift transporters
  • Patented indoor, climate-controlled robotic blast facility with 3 robotic blast units, operating 24/7; 700+ barges blasted and painted
  • Panel line and robotic welding; new automated spool shop under construction and a reported 24-acre expansion
  • Capacity to handle up to 20 barges simultaneously, including blast and paint
  • Full-time safety management team, JSA program, confined space, hot work, fall protection, LOTO and PPE programs

Vessel Types

  • Towboats and push boats, including the 11,000 HP ACBL Mariner for American Commercial Barge Line, the 10,000 HP MV John Paul Eckstein for Marquette Transportation, and an 11-boat series for Maritime Partners
  • Hybrid harbor and ship-docking tugboats — 8 RApport 2800-H vessels (Robert Allan Ltd. design) for Harbor Docking & Towing; hybrid escort tugs for Green Tug Towing
  • Cutter suction dredges, including J.S. Chatry (Weeks Marine), General MacArthur and General Arnold (Callan Marine), plus a 30" CSD on speculation and patent-pending interchangeable dredge heads
  • Dredging support vessels: MultiCats, idler barges, booster barges, anchor barges
  • Offshore supply vessels — 23 delivered, including builds for Adriatic Marine, TMM and C. & E. Boat Rental
  • Barges, including the double-hull tank barge CTOW 330 for Colonial Towing

Location

  • 701 Engineers Rd., Belle Chasse, LA 70037, with access to the Gulf of Mexico via the Intracoastal Waterway
  • Office hours Monday–Friday 7:00 AM–5:00 PM; Saturday by appointment