Tugs & Barges

American Commercial Lines (ACL) reports the purchase of eight 20,000 barrel capacity tank barges from SeaRiver Maritime Inc., a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation. The price was not disclosed. The purchase will expand ACL's fleet of 325 tank barges, which transport liquid cargoes, including chemicals, petroleum and renewable fuels throughout the U.S. i ...

Australian operator RiverWijs, a joint venture of Riverside Marine and Svitzer A/S, has recently taken delivery of two sister tugs from Singapore's ASL Shipyard. Designed by Robert Allan Ltd.  the RiverWijs Emma and RiverWijs Rowan were constructed for operation at the LNG terminal in the Port of Dampier, Austra ...

When Colombian tug operator Intertug S.A. needed a tugboat in a hurry, Damen Shipyards was able to deliver one from stock in two weeks. The vessel is the ASD 3213 Tanok. Built at Damen Song Cam Shipyard in Vietnam, it delivers a bollard pull of 86.5 t and 80 t astern. Its power is provided by two Caterpillar C280 ...

Corvus Energy's battery packs, the world's most powerful and energy dense lithium polymer batteries, were recently installed in Europe's first hybrid tugboat. In a diesel-to-hybrid conversion, Kotug of The Netherlands has converted its RT Adriaan and renamed it E-KOTUG RT Adriaan. The tugboat  rejoined the KOTUG fleet March 6 and i ...

The U.S. Coast Guard, the National Transportation Safety Board and the Canadian Transportation Safety Board of Canada have begun investigations into a fire aboard the towing vessel Patrice McAllister near Prince Edward Point, Ontario. The 105-foot U.S.-flagged vessel was transiting on Lake Ontario from Toledo, Ohio, to a p ...

Two Bollinger Shipyards, Bollinger Amelia Repair, L.L.C., and Bollinger Algiers, L.L.C.,  teamed to re-deliver the tank barge B. No. 230 and tug Ralph E. Bouchard to Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc., Melville, NY     “We are pleased to announce the re-delivery of the ATB unit to Bouchard following a successful conver ...

Raymond Viguerie has seen a lot of changes at Intracoastal Iron Works, Bourg, LA. “I started in the shipyard 50 years ago with pick on the end of a broom stick cleaning up,” recalls Viguerie. “Later the old man taught me how to do fitting.” These days, Viguerie is still at his Intracoastal Iron Works yard full time, but his son Pete ...

Walsh & Sons, a U.K. construction and recycling company with a fleet of 60 trucks, is planning to beat road congestion by switching to river transportation. Last week, as part of that strategy, Walsh took delivery of the Damen Stan Tug 1205 SWS Essex from Damen Shipyards. Walsh specializes in civil engineerin ...