TTB 2025

Top 5 reasons to attend TTB 2025: Innovation, networking, and strategies for success

Marine Log’s TTB 2025, taking place on March 25-26, 2025, at the Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza in Mobile, Ala., is set to be the premier event for professionals in the tug, towboat,

M/V ACBL Mariner

VIDEO: M/V ACBL Mariner: Mightiest Mississippi River towboat yet

Christened at a ceremony held in New Orleans yesterday, American Commercial Barge Line’s latest vessel, M/V ACBL Mariner is the most powerful towboat ever built for Mississippi River operations. What that translates

Golding Barge Line launches towboat with Mitsubishi Tier 4 engines

Golding Barge Line, Vicksburg, Miss., has recently commissioned its newest towboat, the 74- by 34-foot M/V Scott Golding, equipped with Mitsubishi Tier 4 engines supplied by Laborde Products. Built by Vessel Repair

Uncle Blue after sinking

Poor hull condition led to $500,000 flooding of 59-year old towboat Uncle Blue

The National Transportation Safety Board has issued its report on a March 26, 2023, incident in which, at about 0500 local time, the towing vessel Uncle Blue began flooding when towing one

The M/V John 3:16 underway on an unknown date before the contact. (Source: Marquette Transportation)

Fatigue factor in towboat pier allision says NTSB

The pilot of a towboat that hit a pier near Saint Rose, La., last year had fallen asleep, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said August 21. The pilot of the M/V

e1 Marine LLC yech is used in Hydrogen One

Maritime Partners acquires e1 Marine LLC

Maritime Partners LLC has acquired e1 Marine LLC, whose methanol-to-hydrogen technology plays a key role in the first-of-its-kind M/V Hydrogen One towboat. “This acquisition marks a significant milestone in Maritime Partners’ commitment

The Jeff O. Norgress on the left and the John R. Williams on the right. (Credit: Laborde Products)

Two new Chem Carriers towboats get Mitsubishi engines

Covington, La., headquartered engine and genset distributor Laborde Products recently announced that it has supplied a pair of Mitsubishi S6R2 engines to Plaquemine, La.-based Chem Carriers for two of its new vessels,

The M/V The Gunnar, towboat was powered with a pair of high-performance Mitsubishi S6R2 engines. (Credit: Laborde Products)

Maritime Partners equips new towboat with Mitsubishi engines

Covington, La., headquartered engine and genset distributor Laborde Products recently equipped Metairie, La., headquartered Maritime Partners’ new towboat, M/V The Gunnar, with a pair of high-performance Mitsubishi S6R2 engines. Each engine produces

The M/V Ned Merrick was recently repowered with Tier 3 S16R engines from Mitsubishi. (Credit: Laborde Products)

Canal Barge Company repowers two towboats

New Orleans-based Canal Barge Company recently repowered two of its towboats with Laborde Products Inc. (Covington, La.) solutions. The first vessel project, the M/V Ned Merrick, featured the replacement of the vessel’s

New AWO video

New AWO video: Safety is everything

The American Waterways Operators has produced a new video highlighting the tugboat, towboat and barge industry’s commitment to safety and its strong record as the safest mode of freight transportation. The two-minute

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