January 2022 Marine Log cover with Hydrogen One towboat

January 2022

Who will operate the unique towboat, M/V Hydrogen One? Also, we talk to a Great Lakes shipyard, learn about fishing vessel design, and ask whether the bulker market demand can be sustained.

Jennifer Carpenter, AWO President & CEO

Jennifer Carpenter to keynote TTB 2022 in Mobile

Marine Log’s TTB (Tugs, Towboats & Barges) 2022 conference is set to go live and in person March 29-30 in Mobile, Ala., with a full agenda and an offsite tour in the

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

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