Tugs & Barges

The Coast Guard and Washington State Department of Ecology are responding to a potential environmental hazard following the sinking of a 200 ft dry dock at the Vigor Marine Shipyard in Everett, Wash., Sunday. The 140-foot tug Crowley tug Invader was in the dock. The sinking caused it to capsize with an estimated 50,000-6 ...

Great Lakes Shipyard, Cleveland, OH, recently completed the winter layup and repair of the tug John Spence and barge Niagara Spirit for McKeil Marine, Hamilton, ON, Canada. The project was the first major ship repair contract for Great Lakes Shipyard from a Canadian company. The shipyard completed general steel work on both the tug and barge a ...

Seattle-based Saltchuk Resources, Inc., has promoted Anthony Chiarello, to president and CEO of TOTE, Inc., the largest of its six operating groups.Mr. Chiarello, who accepted the top leadership position at TOTE, Inc., 18 months ago, has already led a realignment of the organization's five operating companies in to three distinct lines of business: TOTE Mari ...

Argentinian towage and harbor company Remolcadores Unidos Argentinos (RUA) has just taken delivery of the  Damen ASD 2810 tug RUA Cap. Lucio R. This is the first delivery of a Damen tug to an Argentinian company, though Damen tugs have operated in Argentina before.RUA has a seven-strong fleet of vessels with a smaller bollard pull than ...

St. Johns Ship Building of Palatka, Fla. has delivered two custom built twin screw push tugs, the Lady Shayne and the Lady Dashelle, for Smithbridge of Brisbane Australia. These 25-ft tugs feature twin John Deere model diesel engines with a combined rating of 600 hp and conventional shaft drives with reversing gears."The Lady Shayne and Lady Dashell ...

Jensen Maritime Consultants, Inc., Seattle, WA, a Crowley company, has been chosen to design a custom "super pumper" fireboat to enhance the City of San Francisco Fire Department's (SFFD) marine fire fighting and response capabilities on water. This high-volume water and foam pumping NFPA Type I ...

Saltchuk Resources' American Shipping Group, formerly known as ASG, is now TOTE, Inc. and its five independently managed businesses have been reorganized into to three groups: Maritime, Logistics and Ship Management. TOTE Maritime: Totem Ocean Trailer Express and Sea Star Line TOTE Ship Management: Interocean American Shipping ...

Tank barge giant Kirby Corporation (NYSE: KEX) reports record net earnings for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2011 of $56.2 million, or $1.00 per share, compared with $31.6 million, or $.59 per share, for the 2010 fourth quarter. Consolidated revenues for the 2011 fourth quarter were a record $550.1 million compared with $286.3 million reported for the 2010 fourth quarter ...