Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based SEACOR Holdings has confirmed the sale of its US harbour towing operations and assets from its Seabulk Towing Holdings subsidiary to two parties, E N Bisso and Son and Bay-Houston Towing Company. The E N Bisso transaction includes 12 harbour towing vessels across...
Best Small Pusher Tug – Green Wave – Cooper Group of Companies & Blakeley BoatWorks Built for Plimsoll Marine, an associated company in the Cooper Group of Companies of Mobile, Alabama, this is a compact yet potent pusher tug for operation on inland waterways, especially the mighty Mississippi...
Excessive speed during a bow-to-bow harbour-assist manoeuvre led to the grounding of a tug in Texas’ Corpus Christi Ship Channel last year, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said recently. It is the second marine casualty the NTSB investigated in 2022 caused by excessive speed in...
US-based Kirby Corporation, via its Kirby Inland Marine division, recently took delivery of a new plug-in hybrid electric inland pusher tug. Green Diamond was designed and built by Kirby-owned San Jac Marine based in Channelview, Texas. Stewart and Stevenson Manufacturing Technologies, another Kirby company, designed and installed the power management, control, and propulsion systems. The […]
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Deliveries include an electric inland tug for a US commercial operator and a ship handling tug for the Royal Thai Navy. Construction meanwhile continues on a tug for a Danish towage provider and a salvage and rescue vessel for the US Navy. Royal Thai Navy acquires ship handling tug The Royal Thai...
Great Lakes St Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (GLS), a wholly government-owned corporation under the US Department of Transportation, has expanded its fleet of m ..
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Lydia Ann Channel Fleet, a shipping company that serves customers via the inland waters of South Texas, recently took delivery of a new barge pushing tug from shipbuilder ..
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New York-based, family-owned vessel operator McAllister Towing and Transportation Company recently welcomed a new harbour tug to its fleet servicing customers along the U ..
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Excessive speed during an advanced harbour-assist manoeuvre led to a tug colliding with a container vessel in the Houston Ship Channel in Texas last year, the US National ..
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New tugs have been delivered to operators in Canada and Poland as the US Navy unveils the name of a future towing, salvage, and rescue vessel. Another Canadian operator m ..