Vane takes delivery of newbuild asphalt barge

JULY 15, 2015 — Baltimore, MD, headquartered Vane Brothers has taken delivery of the Double Skin 509A, the company’s first newbuild barge designed specifically for moving asphalt. Constructed at Conrad Shipyard’s Amelia,

Overturned barge spills caustic soda into Mississippi

JULY 3, 2015 — U.S. Coast Guard Sector New Orleans says it received a report of a collision between the two towing vessels, American Heritage and David G. Schert, near Vacherie, LA,

Moran patents technology to use LNG boil-off gas in ATBs

MAY 26, 2015—The boil-off gas has long been successfully used as fuel by Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) carriers. Now, a recently patented technology could make the use of boil-off gas as fuel

VT Halter Marine launches Bouchard ATB barge

MAY 6, 2015 — VT Halter Marine’s Pascagoula, MS, shipyard launched Barge B. No. 270 for Bouchard Transportation Co., Melville, NY, May 1. Barge B. No. 270 is the barge component of

Bay Shipbuilding books ATB order

MAY 5, 2015 — Fincantieri Marine Group’s Bay Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, WI, has been awarded a contract for the new construction of an Articulated Tug-Barge unit (ATB). The ATB will consist

Crowley sells 1982-built tug to Island Tug & Barge

APRIL 29, 2015 — Shipbroker Marcon International, Inc, Coupeville, WA, reports that Crowley Marine Services, Inc. of Seattle has sold a second sister-tug of the Point Class to Island Tug & Barge

Great Lakes Towing frees grounded bulker

APRIL 27, 2015 —The 603-ft Canadian self-discharging bulk carrier M/V Mississagi, was successfully refloated by the Great Lakes Towing Company on Saturday, April 25 by 1.00 p.m. with no injuries or pollution.

Conrad starts construction of BHGI designed ATB

APRIL 27, 2015 — Naval architect and marine engineering firm Bristol Harbor Group, Inc. (BHGI), Bristol, RI, reports that is currently completing the detail design phase of a new ATB (articulated tug

Ingram Barge’s David Sehrt is new AWO Chairman

APRIL 24, 2015 — David G. Sehrt, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President of Ingram Barge Company, was elected Chairman of the American Waterways Operators, the national trade association representing the

Drone ship landing still eludes SpaceX

APRIL 15, 2015 — SpaceX has again not quite succeeded in its goal of soft landing the first stage of a Falcon 9 on its autonomous space port drone ship. A Vine

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