Nichols Brothers launches third ASD-90 tug for Foss

Launched yesterday by Nichols Brothers Boat Builders (NBBB), Freeland, Wash., the M/V Leisa Florence is the third of four ASD-90 class tugs ordered at the shipyard by Foss Maritime. Foss welcomed the

Q-LNG ATB completes sea trials

Quality Liquefied Natural Gas Transport (Q-LNG) reports that its LNG bunkering ATB built at Halter Marine has now successfully completed sea trials and is headed Elba Island, Ga., to load gas and

Another 3,000-hp Maryland-built tugboat joins Vane Brothers fleet

Underscoring the advantages of building in series, Vane Brothers has taken delivery of the 3,000 hp Cape Fear, the seventeenth Maryland-built tugboat to join the Baltimore-based company’s expanding fleet. Since 2008, fifteen

Singapore operator takes delivery of RAmparts 3200 ASD duo

PSA Marine, Singapore, has taken delivery of two more Robert Allan Ltd. designed RAmparts 3200 ASD tugs from China’s PaxOcean Engineering Zhuhai Co. Ltd. The tugs, PSA Marvel and PSA Valkyrie, are

MTU engines power 63-ton bollard pull Emden tug

Now in operation in Emden, Germany, the 28-meter harbor assist and salvage tug Peter Wessels has a bollard pull of 63 tons, making it the most powerful tug in the five-tug fleet

MacGregor to supply Fincantieri Bay LNG bunkering barge hose handling cranes

The 5,400-cubic-meter LNG bunkering barge under construction at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay, Wis., will have two MacGregor Rapp HP63-13F fixed boom cranes to handle the hoses that transfer LNG from the

Sanmar Shipyards and Schottel strengthen ties

Spay, Germany, based propulsion specialist Schottel will be the exclusive supplier of thrusters for the 90-tonnes bollard pull Bigaçay class of tugs, designed by Robert Allan Ltd, built by Turkey’s Sanmar Shipyards

Kirby

Kirby earnings hit by COVID-19 and hurricanes

America’s largest tank barge operator, Houston-headquartered Kirby Corporation (NYSE: KEX), today reported third quarter net earnings of $27.5 million, or $0.46 per share, compared with net earnings of $48.0 million or $0.80

Owner of unseaworthy tugboat fined for “vile behavior”

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) reports that Anthony Roy Wolfe, the owner of MV Wallaroo—an unseaworthy, ex-navy tug boat—was convicted of hindering a Commonwealth public official in Cairns Magistrate Court on

Bouchard Transportation: What went wrong?

A filing in the Bouchard Transportation Co. Chapter 11 bankruptcy case paints a sobering picture of how one of America’s longest established maritime companies found itself plunged into a liquidity crisis, falling

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