Braintree, Mass., headquartered barge provider Cashman Equipment Corporation (CEC) has been awarded ISO certification for its systems and processes under ISO 9001:2015. The company’s ISO 9001:2015 certificate (#US017132) was issued by Bureau Veritas Certification (BV).
Cashman Equipment owns and operates one of the world’s largest and most diverse fleets of barges, with over 100 vessels including ocean going barges, Jones Act compliant barges, inland barges and accommodation barges, etc. The...
American Commercial Barge Line Holding Corp., as successor to American Commercial Lines Inc., today announced that it has successfully completed its recapitalization and emerged from Chapter 11.
ACBL says it is moving forward as an inland barge transportation leader and continuing to provide customers with safe, reliable and competitive solutions.
It says that with $200 million in new equity capital and having reduced its funded debt by approximately $1 billion, it has a strong financial...
https://www.marinelog.com/coastal/inland/acbl-completes-recapitalization/
Although poor weather and navigation conditions negatively affected overall barge traffic in 2019, the impact has varied by region.
The states where harvest has progressed at or above normal (such as Texas and North Carolina) either do not use the Mississippi River for barge shipments or (like Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana) have access to the waterways below the locking system. This has resulted in a larger share of barges arriving in the Gulf that have not transited the locks. In 2019,...
A $17 million contract has been awarded by the Corps of Engineers St. Paul District to Kraemer North America, LLC, Burnsville, Minn, to complete tow rail rehabilitation projects at six upper Mississippi River locks and dams.
The tow rail systems include travelling mooring bitts that speed upstream travel for 1,200’ tows through 600’ lock chambers. The travelling mooring bitt systems are located on upper guidewalls to help guide the upstream-bound tows out of the lock chamber.
Each system is...