Joe Starck Archives - Maritime Shipping News

Great Lakes Towing launches new Caribbean breakbulk service

24 June 2024

The Great Lakes Towing Company (GLT) has purchased the 5,800 tonnes cargo deadweight capacity, fully enclosed warehouse barge Crimson Clover from Crimson Shipping and has created a new operating company named Great Lakes East, LLC (GLE) is launching a Jones Act compliant breakbulk service from Fernandina Beach, Fla., to San Juan Puerto Rico.

Great Lakes East, (GLE) will operate a domestic and international marine transportation service that will effectively reactivate Crimson Shipping’s former...

https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/coastal/great-lakes-towing-launches-new-caribbean-breakbulk-service/

Great Lakes Towing names Sal Menoyo VP special projects

18 January 2024

Cleveland, Ohio, headquartered Great Lakes Towing Company has hired Salvadore Menoyo as its vice president-special projects. Reporting to Great Lakes Towing president reporting to Joe Starck, he will be based in Jacksonville, Fla., and use his extensive experience and expertise to identify, develop and manage new business opportunities on the East Coast, including the Gulf and Puerto Rico. In this new role, Menoyo will work with internal and external customers and build relationships with...

https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/great-lakes-towing-names-sal-menoyo-vp-special-projects/

VIDEO: Great Lakes Towing christens two latest hybrid tugs

17 December 2020

Sister companies Great Lakes Towing Company and Great Lakes Shipyard yesterday joined together at their Cleveland, Ohio, facilities to celebrate the christening of the new tugs Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Customers, vendors, community, friends, family, and the public were invited to join virtually for the live streamed event.

“Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it is remarkable that the Towing Company has persevered with the successful completion of these two new tugs, despite the adversity the pandemic...

https://www.marinelog.com/coastal/tugs-barges/video-great-lakes-towing-christens-two-latest-hybrid-tugs/