(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — Crowley Shipping and Shell Trading (US) Company (STUSCO) recently initiated use of low-carbon biofuel to power the Crowley tugboat Veteran, a ship assist and escort tug serving San Francisco Bay. The fueling contract between the companies reflects…
(NEW YORK) — Bouchard Transportation Co. Inc. and three former and current management officials have paid $375,000 in restitution to the brother of one of two seamen killed in a barge explosion off the coast of Texas. The mariner alleged…
Centerline Logistics and Saltchuk have agreed to swap California assets in a move both companies expect will build on their core strengths. Under the deal announced late last year, Centerline will sell eight tugboats in its Millennium and Starlight…
(VANCOUVER, British Columbia) — Bay-Houston Towing Co. recently took delivery of the Robert Allan Ltd. (RAL) designed Z-Tech 30-80 tug George M. Bay-Houston Towing contracted Gulf Island Shipyards LLC to build five Z-Tech 30-80 tugs in 2018. George M. is…
(MOBILE, Ala.) — Gretchen V. Cooper, the nation’s first line-haul towing vessel powered by EPA Tier 4 Caterpillar high-speed engines with selective catalytic reduction, was built by Blakeley BoatWorks (BBW) and is now operated by Cooper Marine & Timberlands (CMT).…
(PORTLAND, Ore.) — Crowley achieved a significant milestone Saturday in its 55,000-barrel articulated tug-barge (ATB) newbuild project with the launch and christening at Greenbrier Marine of Qamun, a double-hulled petroleum barge specifically designed for the Alaska fuels market. The 350-foot…
(BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala.) — Master Marine Inc. (MMI) has delivered the 67-by-28-foot Rock Solid to Plimsoll Marine. Rock Solid is the third vessel that MMI is scheduled to deliver to Plimsoll Marine, one of the Lower Mississippi River’s premier…
(HOUSTON) — A judge ordered Bouchard Transportation CEO Morton S. Bouchard III to be immediately removed from his position at a hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Bouchard Transportation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection…
Air temperatures on a December day in Buffalo, N.Y., average about 20 degrees Fahrenheit or lower, with water temperatures around 40 and dropping, but the cargo on a newly arrived barge is maintained at 300 degrees. Snowflakes falling on…
(CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas) — The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a tugboat captain in Brownsville, Texas, on Thursday. Coast Guard Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi command center watch standers received a medevac request at 7:16 a.m. via VHF Channel 16 from the…
(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — Crowley Solutions has been awarded the five-year contract to deliver military specification fuel to the Eareckson Air Station located on the remote Aleutian Island of Shemya, Alaska. Under the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency-Energy contract, beginning in 2021,…
(CHICAGO) — Southern Towing Company (STC), an affiliate of CC Industries (CCI), has acquired Devall Towing from the Devall family. Founded in 1952, Devall is a towboat and barge operator for specialty chemicals along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and Lower…
