TTB: How has COVID changed salvage response to the tug, towboat and barge industry?

Despite COVID-19, casualties have continued, regulatory changes have persisted, and salvage and marine firefighting providers are expected to meet response standards despite travel restrictions and social distancing requirements. Although the pandemic hasn’t

Barge slams into Gig Harbor docks and homes

Coast Guard members from Sector Puget Sound responded Monday when a barge smashed into private docks and homes near Gig Harbor, Wash. Watchstanders at Sector Puget Sound received notification from Pierce County

TTB: Jones Walker presents on creditors’ rights under maritime law

Lance Sannino, a partner in the Maritime Practice Group at New Orleans headquartered law firm Jones Walker LLP, will present on “Creditor’s Rights Under Maritime Law: Tools to Consider in the Current

Jonathan Zier

TTB: Crowley talks offshore wind opps for tugs at TTB

As prospects for offshore wind in the United States continue to make headlines, Jonathan Zier, manager – business development of offshore services for Crowley Maritime, will speak on “Tug and Barge Opportunities

Marcon brokers sale of ocean salvage and rescue tug

Marcon International Inc., Coupeville, Wash. reports the sale by Star Matrix Hong Kong Ltd. to Japanese buyers of the ocean salvage and rescue tug Hulk (ex-Resolve Monarch, ex-Anglian Monarch). The 11,400 bhp

Side launch at Gunderson Marine

Greenbrier Marine launches 350-foot Crowley ATB barge

Crowley Maritime has marked another milestone 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

TTB: NTSB looks at the lessons that accidents teach

Accidents involving tugs, towboats, and barges can be deadly and are usually expensive. To discuss the lessons to be learned, Day 2 of Marine Log’s TTB – Tugs, Towboats & Barges free

Former Austal USA execs face multiple charges

Judge orders removal of Morton Bouchard as Bouchard Transportation CEO

In the most recent developments in the Bouchard Transportation Co, Inc. bankruptcy case, in an order signed February 26, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David S. Jones ordered that Morton S. Bouchard, III “shall

Moran gets $14.9 million MSC award

The Navy’s Military Sealift Command has exercised a $14,962,488 one-year option under a previously awarded contract with Moran Towing Corp., New Canaan, Conn. The award is for the support of Military Sealift

Project aims to develop world’s first fully remote-controlled commercial tug

The Maersk group’s global towage operator Svitzer has signed an agreement with Kongsberg Maritime and ABS to develop RECOTUG, the world’s first fully operational, and fully remotely controlled tugboat. Svitzer’s contributions to

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