Marine Operations

PCCI’s marine operations span the globe.  We provide marine operations through both PCCI, Inc., with a primary focus on fixed and floating ocean facility installations, maintenance and repairs;  and through Global PCCI (GPC). GPC focuses on diving systems, marine salvage, oil spill response, and underwater ship husbandry operations in support of the U.S. Navy Supervisor of Salvage and Diving, and the U.S. Coast Guard National Strike Force Coordination Center.

PCCI’s marine operations projects are led by construction quality management professionals, engineers, ex-Navy Master Divers, logisticians, marine construction supervisors, and site safety and health officers having the necessary education, training and experience to ensure offshore projects are undertaken and completed in an efficient and safe manner.

PCCI specializes in the engineering of equipment and systems for heavy lift of marine cargos.  Our engineers and naval architects consider the structural and vessel stability aspects of each job in the design, detailed fabrication and installation of lift components.  Ou engineering personnel routinely travel to the job site to oversee lifting operations.

We have engineered and executed critical lifts of bridge section removals; capsized vessels lifts; concrete caisson module placements; concrete cap removals; heavy lift transport ships; generator, rotor and turbine barge transport; and ship modules,

 

PCCI has successfully designed, procured, installed, maintained, repaired or recovered over 100 mooring systems, located in both shallow and deep water.

PCCI has been specifying and procuring specialized mooring system fabrications for over 25 years.  Our procurement team provides expertise with AWS welding operations and procedures, ACI concrete structures and shop quality control, API chain and wire cables, foam buoy construction, OCIMF mooring hawsers and discharge hoses for offshore moorings.

PCCI has provided analysis, design, fabrication, installations, maintenance, repairs and tests of fixed and floating facilities including:

  • Drydocks, marine railways and other ship launch systems
  • Floating barriers and breakwaters
  • Magnetic signature sensing rangers
  • Ocean current, wave, and wind energy conversion systems
  • Piers, piles, trestles and wharves
  • Stable offshore platforms for acoustic and equipment trials
  • Test frames and fixtures
  • Underwater cable and sensor systems

PCCI provides 24 hour / 7 days a week emergency salvage engineering and on-site support services to fleet operators.  We have provided equipment. materials, and equipment operators in support of salvage operations throughout the United States and in international locations including Bermuda, Canada, Liberia, and Micronesia.

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Our GPC JV operates one of the world’s largest inventories of pollution response and salvage equipment for the U.S. Navy, and manages their dedicated network of worldwide response bases.  As a result, PCCI’s experience with oil spill response operations is extensive and spans the globe.  PCCI has responded to major oil spills at location in Alaska, offshore California, Delaware, Guam, Hawaii, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia, American Samoa, Antarctica, Canada, Chili, Iraq, South Korea, Micronesia and Yemen.

PCCI develops and maintains mission critical equipment and tools to assist divers performing underwater ship repairs.   PCCI has provided design, equipment fabrication, maintenance and integrated logistics support (ILS) for systems including:
  • hydraulic chain hoists
  • hot tap systems
  • hull cleaning systems
  • improved diving systems
  • propeller replacement and repair kits
  • underwater cofferdams

Global PCCI

Global PCCI (GPC) was formed in 1989 to provide emergency response operations support, equipment maintenance and repair services to the U.S. Navy and Department of Homeland Security.

GPC provides personnel and facility operations throughout the Unites States and around the world. 

A large part of PCCI’s success is our team of proven subcontractors and vendors.

PCCI and our network of suppliers have decades of experience working together to satisfy our customers needs.  Our world-wide project locations, and rapid response requirements, makes it necessary for PCCI to have established subcontracting relationships with equipment, material, and service providers around the globe..