Helm software helps Ivy Marine gain TSMS certification

OCTOBER 30, 2017 — Mobile, AL, based Ivy Marine LLC, which operates two towboats, has become the third – and smallest —company in the U.S. to obtain certification of its Towing Safety

Barge ferry starts operations in Canada’s Northwest Territories

OCTOBER 13, 2017 —Alberta, Canada, based Waiward Steel LP has delivered the Aurora Yukon, a 30 m barge ferry that will carry vehicles and passengers across the Mackenzie River at Norman Wells,

McCain calls for Jones Act waiver for Puerto Rico

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017 — Problems with shoreside distribution rather than any shortage of Jones Act vessels are proving to be the major obstacle to getting relief cargoes to Puerto Rico where they

Elliott Bay Design Group wins LaDOTD contract

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017 —The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LaDOTD) has awarded Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) an on-call service contract for naval architecture and marine engineering service. Under the scope

Barge fire in GoM extinguished, vessel adrift

AUGUST 4, 2017—The Gulfport (Mississippi) Fire Department reports that it has extinguished a fire aboard a tank barge carrying 2,500 tons of anhydrous ammonia and 800 gallons of diesel fuel about 2

Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding delivers second Kirby ATB

JULY 31, 2017 — Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding (FBS) of Sturgeon Bay, WI, a subsidiary of Fincantieri Marine Group, has delivered the second of two Articulated Tug Barge (ATB) units to Houston-based Kirby

ABS class for both units of U.S.-built liquefied gas ATB

JULY 28, 2017 — The Harvest, an ATB barge purpose-built to transport liquefied anhydrous ammonia, recently delivered to Savage Companies by Vigor has been classed by ABS, which also classed the connecting

New study details economic impact of U.S. waterways industry

JULY 24, 2017 – The American Waterways Operators has released a new study that documents the contribution that the American tugboat, towboat and barge industry makes to the U.S. economy. The study,

Wison gets BV approval in principle for 50 MW LNG power supply barge

JULY 19, 2017 — Shanghai, China, based Wison Offshore & Marine reports that its newly-developed floating storage regasification and power generation barge (W-FSRP) has received Approval in Principle from Bureau Veritas. W-FSRP

Nichols Brothers delivers powerful ATB tug for Savage

JULY 14, 2017—The ATB tug Abundance, the “power” behind the first complex liquefied ammonia transport barge built in the U.S. in decades, was recently delivered by Nichols Brothers Boat Builders, Whidbey Island,

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