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Figure 16 - LoLo Barge at Pier, Osprey LineSource: Osprey Line website.Trailer BridgeTrailer Bridge has provided LoLo and RoRo container on barge (COB) services betweenmainland coastal ports of New York and Jacksonville and Puerto Rico, and services to theWest Coast. The company operated the “Atlantic Highway” COB service between PortNewark and Jacksonville in 1999 with a transit time of 3 days. Among the corridor shipperswere General Motors with shipments of auto parts to and from San Juan, and paper and pulpshipments of forest products and lumber. The service had to be terminated when a hurricanedelayed the barges carrying the ToysRUS shipments, leading to the loss of the account.Contributing to the service vulnerabilities were the high costs of the Port of Newarklongshoremen. Trailer Bridge also operates the Triple Stack Box Carriers® service on theWest Coast, with a fleet of triple-deck RoRo vessels. Trailer Bridge, the first carrier to offera fleet of LoLo vessels built for 53 foot containers, offers integrated service with Pacerdoublestack trains, providing through bill-of-lading to Southern California in 12 days fromSan Juan and to Northern California/the Pacific Northwest in 16 days (from San Juan).Totem Ocean Trailer Express, Inc. (TOTE)TOTE, a privately owned company, began operating a fleet of 600 RoRo trailer cargo shipsin Alaska in 1975 between the Ports of Anchorage and Tacoma, Washington. The servicehas stayed consistently profitable and truck competitive. TOTE provides a short-sea servicebetween two U.S. ports with Jones Act ships, operating on a “blue water” route of over 1,400nautical miles with challenging conditions, in what is essentially an island service, that is,cargo carriage to a site virtually lacking access via surface transportation.The most modern ships in the TOTE fleet are the Orca class vessels with the followingattributes: Length: 839-feet; Beam: 118-feet; Service Speed: 24 knots; Capacity: 600 FEUcontainers plus 220 vehicles served by 13 internal ramps. The ships have fuel-efficientdiesel-electric plants with twin engines for navigation and propulsion system redundancy.There are also numerous environmental protective features such as double hull fuelONR SSS Final Report 27