Shipyards Begin Work on Barges for New Horseshoe casino
Two 1,700-ton barges under construction at a Louisiana shipyard will make their way to Hammond in early winter to become part of the Horseshoe casino gambling expansion project. Houston-based marine construction company J. Ray McDermott started work in early May on the steel barges, each measuring 276 feet by 102 feet.
By next summer they will be joined with another four barges to form the base of the massive new floating vessel being built by Horseshoe owner Harrah's Entertainment Inc. in a $485 million project. Building floating platforms is nothing new to the 83-year-old J. Ray McDermott, which constructs off-shore structures for the oil and gas industry worldwide. But the barges bound for Hammond are a first for the company, whose founders are not related to Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr., spokesman Ray Scippa said.
June 8, 2006
Posted By Terry Goodwin
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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