Fully electric Zeeboat towboat.

First fully-electric U.S. towboats set for 2025 availability

Houston-headquartered Industrial Service Solutions (ISS) reports that the first four fully-electric towboats to be built in North America are planned to be available for charter in 2025. The towboats are being developed

SSG Michael Ollis ferry

Best Vessels: Distinctive deliveries of 2021

Cherokee: First of two new rail ferries built for U.S-Mexico route Constructed by China’s CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding Company for Jacksonville, Fla.-headquartered CG Railway (CGR), Cherokee is the first of two 590-foot

TTB in partnership with AWO

Marine Log to hold TTB 2022 in Mobile in March

Registration is now open for Marine Log’s annual TTB — Tugs, Towboats & Barges — conference, the only event dedicated exclusively to the tug, towboat and barge segments of the U.S. maritime

L to R: Jeremy Headley, Dan Benken, Leif Lacey

Parker Towing promotes 3 employees

Tuscaloosa, Ala.-based Parker Towing, one of the largest inland barge lines in the U.S., reports that it has promoted three of its employees. Jeremy Headley, who joined the Parker Towing sales team

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Kirby agrees to pay $15.3 million damages in oil spill case

In a case relating to a 2014 incident, Houston-based Kirby Inland Marine LP has agreed to pay $15.3 million in damages and assessment costs under the Oil Pollution Act. Doing so resolves

Maritime Partner's towboat M/V Ouizee underway

Maritime Partners acquires J. Russell Flowers 1,000+ vessels

Maritime Partners LLC, through its managed funds, has acquired from J. Russell Flowers Inc. and its affiliates (JRF), a diversified portfolio of over 1,000 marine vessels operating on bareboat charter. JRF’s fleet

M/V Johnathon Erickson on Upper Mississippi River

Upper Mississippi River navigation season comes to an end

The St. Paul Engineer District locked the last tow to depart St. Paul, Minn., November 23—ending the 2021 navigation season on the Upper Mississippi River. Marquette Transportation‘s M/V Jonathan Erickson, pushing five

sustainable shipping for tugs, towboats and barges

Q&A: Sustainability and the tug, towboat and barge industry

As most of us know by now, sustainability is at the forefront of hot topics in the maritime industry. One of our most involved sectors of the U.S. maritime industry—the tug, towboat

Bridge post-accident

NTSB reports on $500,000 barge contact with Barataria Bridge

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has completed its investigation of a November 22, 2020, accident involving barges towed by the Trent Joseph and George C and the Barataria Bridge near Barataria,

Fireboat responds to towboat fire

VIDEO: Local agencies extinguish Ohio River towboat fire

The Ohio River was temporarily closed between Mile 499 and Mile 501 on November 9 when an engine fire reportedly broke out aboard the towboat Captain Kirby Dupuis when in transit near

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