Tugs & Barges

Publicly traded Kirby Corporation, Houston, Tex., finalized its $604 million acquisition of K-Sea Transportation Partners L.P., East Brunswick, N.J., greatly expanding its presence in the coastwise marine petroleum refined products transportation business. K-Sea, which operates a fleet of 58 tank barges and 63 tugboats along the coasts of the U.S., as well as Hawaii and ...

Genesis Energy, L.P., Houston, Tex., has a goal of becoming the premier supplier of crude oil, refined products and CO2 transportation in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. It will bolster its crude oil transportation business following its recent deal to acquire the black oil transportation business of Florida Marine Transporters, Inc., Mandeville, La., and its affiliates for $1 ...

Kirby Corporation  (NYSE:KEX)  plans  2011 capital spending of $220 to $230 million, including approximately $100 million for the construction of 40 new inland tank barges and three new inland towboats, and approximately $36 million in progress payments on the construction of a new offshore integrated dry-bulk barge and tugboat unit with an estimated total cost of ...

Waller Marine, Inc., Houston, Tex., recently announced the successful installation of two floating power generation barges into a prepared basin at Tacoa, Venezuela. The two 171 MW barges, each supporti ...

Ocean Tug & Barge Engineering Corp., Milford, Mass., has released some more details of the 25,000 dwt ocean bulk articulated tug barge of OT&BE design recently ordered  from d tug bargeshipbuilder Signal International by Kirby Ocean Transport Compan ...

Donjon Marine Co., Inc., along with partner SEACOR Holdings Inc. have announced the completion of the tugboat, Ken Boothe, Sr.  The 10,700 horsepower tug will work as the barge unit of an Articulated Tug/Barge to be named the Seajon ATB. "We are very pleased to see the completion of this state-of-the-art towing vessel, and to share in the success with our ...

Seattle, Wash., based Harley Marine Services is expanding its service to the Gulf Coast by acquiring the former MGI of Houston, Texas. This business will be operated as Harley Marine Gulf. Formed in 1976, MGI has eight boats on long term charter but operate twelve double hull barges in all.  Four of the barges transfer product between terminals, and eight are bunker b ...

Wärtsilä is cooperating with Ship Architects, Inc., Daphne, Ala., to bring natural gas fueled propulsion to America's waterways. The companies have together developed a new concept of towboat design that employs Wärtsilä 20DF and 34DF dual fuel engines for propulsion. The riverboat industry faces progressively severe restrictions on eng ...