The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has said that the October 9th 2018 capsizing of a 39 year old towboat at mile 142 on the Lower Mississippi River near Reserve, Louisiana, was probably a result of the company’s lack of effective hull inspection and maintenance programme. This resulted in flooding into a steering void…
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Author: Capt. John