Tugs & Barges

Ingram Barge Company has reached an agreement to acquire U.S. United Barge Line, LLC ("UBL"), a barge transportation company headquartered in Tampa, Florida with a major operating office in Metropolis, Illinois. "The acquisition will allow Ingram to continue its leadership role in the inland marine industry in providing best-of-cl ...

LEEVAC Shipyards Jennings, LLC, Jennings, La., reports that it has signed contracts with Bay Houston Towing Co. and Suderman & Young Towing Company, both of Houston, to build two 80 ft x 38 ft x 16 ft Z-Tech 2400 class terminal/escort tugs. "We are very excited to have this opportunity to begin this partnership with companies like Bay ...

American Commercial Lines (ACL) reports the purchase of eight 20,000 barrel capacity tank barges from SeaRiver Maritime Inc., a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation. The price was not disclosed. The purchase will expand ACL's fleet of 325 tank barges, which transport liquid cargoes, including chemicals, petroleum and renewable fuels throughout the U.S. i ...

Australian operator RiverWijs, a joint venture of Riverside Marine and Svitzer A/S, has recently taken delivery of two sister tugs from Singapore's ASL Shipyard. Designed by Robert Allan Ltd.  the RiverWijs Emma and RiverWijs Rowan were constructed for operation at the LNG terminal in the Port of Dampier, Austra ...

When Colombian tug operator Intertug S.A. needed a tugboat in a hurry, Damen Shipyards was able to deliver one from stock in two weeks. The vessel is the ASD 3213 Tanok. Built at Damen Song Cam Shipyard in Vietnam, it delivers a bollard pull of 86.5 t and 80 t astern. Its power is provided by two Caterpillar C280 ...

Corvus Energy's battery packs, the world's most powerful and energy dense lithium polymer batteries, were recently installed in Europe's first hybrid tugboat. In a diesel-to-hybrid conversion, Kotug of The Netherlands has converted its RT Adriaan and renamed it E-KOTUG RT Adriaan. The tugboat  rejoined the KOTUG fleet March 6 and i ...

The U.S. Coast Guard, the National Transportation Safety Board and the Canadian Transportation Safety Board of Canada have begun investigations into a fire aboard the towing vessel Patrice McAllister near Prince Edward Point, Ontario. The 105-foot U.S.-flagged vessel was transiting on Lake Ontario from Toledo, Ohio, to a p ...

Two Bollinger Shipyards, Bollinger Amelia Repair, L.L.C., and Bollinger Algiers, L.L.C.,  teamed to re-deliver the tank barge B. No. 230 and tug Ralph E. Bouchard to Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc., Melville, NY     “We are pleased to announce the re-delivery of the ATB unit to Bouchard following a successful conver ...