TTB 2022 Panel: Tech and the future of tugs and towboats
Marine Log’s upcoming TTB 2022 event for the tug, towboat and barge sector will feature a March 29 panel discussion in front of a live-audience that will focus on current and upcoming
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Ingram Marine announces leadership change
Nashville, Tenn.-headquartered Ingram Marine Group reports that its chief operating officer John Roberts, will become president and CEO on February 1. He will succeed David O’Loughlin, who is to retire but will
N.C. DoT is auctioning off a surplus ferry
The North Carolina Department of Transportation (DoT) has put a 1995-built car/passenger ferry up for auction on the state’s surplus property website. The ferry is the Thomas A. Baum, with a capacity
Bisso Towboat adds ninth ASD tractor tug
Luling, La.-based Bisso Towboat Company Inc. has taken delivery of its newest ship assist tug, the 6,008 bhp ASD tractor tug Capt. Joseph Bisso. The 100- by 38- by 13.5-foot vessel is
Fairbanks Morse Defense books $13 million USCG contract
Fairbanks Morse Defense (FMD), a portfolio company of Arcline Investment Management, has been awarded a five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) requirements contract by the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Surface Forces Logistic Center. The agreement,
South African shipyard signs agreement with Robert Allan Ltd
Durban, South Africa-based Sandock Austral Shipyards (SAS) is to offer clients a range of state-of-the-art high-performance tugs, following the signing of an agreement with Vancouver, B.C., naval architect firm Robert Allan Ltd.
The Shearer Group naval architecture firm promotes two
Houston-based naval architecture and marine engineering firm The Shearer Group Inc. (TSGI) reports that it has promoted two members its team. JOSHUA SEBASTIAN Joshua S. Sebastian, P.E., a 13-year veteran of the
Two Port of Virginia stevedoring services consolidate
Aiming to increase efficiency at the Port of Virginia, CP&O, LLC and Ceres Marine Terminals, Inc., have consolidated their stevedoring services under the CP&O brand. The new venture will be led by
ABC ships out gen sets for new Mike Hooks dredge
Two powerful, robust 6DL36 generator sets have left the Anglo Belgian Corporation (ABC) factory in Belgium for the Southwest Shipyard in Galveston, Texas. They are to be installed in a new, 27-inch
Barge strike on bridge could cost over $500,000 to fix
The Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) marine casualty investigators are investigating a December 23 barge allision with the Bayou Ramos Bridge near Morgan City and Amelia, La., on Highway