Tugs & Barges

The City of Boston is auctioning the retired fireboat FIREFIGHTER on municibid.com, a government auctions website.The City is disposing of the vessel after commissioning its new fireboat JOHN S. DAMRELL. The starting bid is $10,000 with bidding scheduled to close on September 30, 2012. The auction can be found by going to municibid.com, and searching Listing # 1 ...

Rolls-Royce Commercial Marine has been contracted to upgrade Interlake Steamship Company's tug Dorothy Ann. The 124-foot, 7,200-horsepower Z-drive tug is the largest Z-drive ATB tug built to date in North America and is mated to the barge Pathfinder. The duo is engaged in hauling bulk commodities o ...

Jensen Maritime Consultants, Seattle, WA, a Crowley subsidiary, recently started the design of two 92-foot, 50-ton-bollard-pull Azimuth Stern Drive (ASD) tugboats for Caribbean TugZ, an affiliate of SEACOR Holdings Inc., for operation in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. ...

Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc., Panama City, FL, recently delivered the third in a series of four 2,600 hp Canal Class inland towboats to Settoon Towing LLC, Pierre Part, LA.Over the last few years, Eastern Shipbuilding has been one of the most diverse shipbuilders in the U.S., with orders for offshore support vessels, f ...

Metal Trades, Inc., Hollywood, SC, recently completed two 7,000 bbl, double-hull fuel barges for the U.S. Navy as a sub-contractor to Maybank Industries, Charleston, SC.Designed by Bristol Harbor Group, Bristol, RI, the two ABS-classed barges are capable of carrying diesel and JP-5 fuel in four cargo tanks within a ...

Seattle based Jensen Maritime Consultants, a Crowley Maritime Corp. subsidiary, has completed the design of three additional tugboats for Moran Towing Corp., New Canaan, Conn. The additional boats will bring Moran's Jensen-designed series of tugboats to five. The tugs are currently under construction at the Washburn & Doughty Shipyard in East Boothbay, Maine. ...

Work has already begun on what will be the seventh oceangoing tug built by Chesapeake Shipbuilding Corp., Salisbury, MD, for Vane Brothers, Baltimore, MD, in just over five years. The 94 ft x 32 ft tugboat, designated Hull 105, will be nearly identical to the previous six tugboats built for Vane Brothers. Propulsi ...

The inland waterways of the Netherlands are now home to the 6,100 dwt Argonon, the world's first new LNG-fuelled tanker, following its delivery by the Dutch Shipyard Trico B.V. Built to Lloyd's Register class, MT Argonon represents a significant milestone for the Deen Shipping subsidiary, Argonon Shipping B.V., in its pursuit of ...