The Towing Company celebrates its 116th year

JULY 7, 2014 — The Great Lakes Towing Company and Great Lakes Shipyard, Cleveland, Ohio, will start celebrating their 116th year by putting the USCG Cutter Biscayne Bay back into the water

Signet acquires Harvey Gulf’s offshore towing vessels

May 16, 2014–Signet Maritime Corporation, Houston, TX, will expand its presence in the ship assist and escort and offshore towing markets, following the acquisition of eight offshore towing vessels from Harvey Gulf

LeBoeuf takes delivery of fortieth tank barge in series

MAY 13, 2014 — “There’s more plate and iron in those barges than the normal tank barge,” said Jon Gonsoulin, president of LeBeouf Bros. Towing, Bourg, LA, has taken delivery of the

Moran orders ATBs at Bay Shipbuilding

MAY 1, 20014 —  Bay Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, WI, has entered into contracts with Moran Towing Corporation, New Canaan, CT, to build three oil/chemical barges (two with a cargo capacity of

ALP tugs to have Rolls-Royce deck machinery

APRIL 14, 2014 — Rolls-Royce has been awarded a £19m contract to deliver deck machinery for the four Ulstein SX157 design ocean going tugs that Japan’s Niigata Shipbuilding & Repair will build

Rand Logistics to reflag, convert Danish tanker

MARCH 14, 2014 — Great Lakes dry bulk vessel operator Rand Logistics, Inc. (NASDAQ: RLOG) has acquired a Danish flagged chemical tanker that will be converted to a Canadian flagged river class

Teekay Offshore swoops on ALPS, orders X-bows

FEBRUARY 21, 2014 — Teekay Offshore Partners L.P., the part of the Teekay empire that owns things like FPSOs and FSOs, is getting into the business of towing them around and installing

Peter Soles joins Glosten Associates

JANUARY 31, 20014 — Peter Soles has joined The Glosten Associates, Seattle, WA, as a marine consultant and will be supporting the firm’s ocean engineering and marine logistics projects. “Peter brings a

Pacific Basin may sell its towing business

OCTOBER 22, 2013 — Hong Kong headquartered bulker operator Pacific Basin is looking at the possibility of selling its towage operations. PB Towage harbor tug These include harbor towage in Australia through

Two Leevac yards team to build Z-Tech tug

OCTOBER 22, 2013 — Leevac Shipyards, LLC recently delivered the first of two 60-t bollard pull Z-Tech 2400 harbor tug boats, the Chloe K, to Bay-Houston Towing Co. Leevac has shipyards in

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