Boats & Barges

C&C Marine & Repair, Belle Chasse, La., has delivered the mv. Bowling Green to Kirby Inland Marine, which will operate it under a long-term lease from Hines Furlong Line.  The… Read More

TAI Engineers LLC, New Orleans, has completed the detailed design and construction of a new utility vessel for the National Park Service (NPS). The NPS named the all-steel passenger/utility vessel… Read More

Some older veteran river industry personnel, executives, aficionados and others associated with the inland marine industry (especially the upper Ohio River area) may experience a bit of déjà vu when… Read More

While blue water cruising in the United States is about to resume, river and coastal cruise operator American Cruise Lines (ACL) has been full steam ahead since the spring. The… Read More

Members of the Ingram Marine Group family gathered in Reserve, La., June 2 to honor two longtime Ingram leaders and commission a pair of new towboats into the company’s fleet. Read More

John Prine once sang about Mr. Peabody’s coal train hauling away “Paradise” down by the Green River in western Kentucky. Now, along the Green River, there is no more Peabody,… Read More

Humid temperatures in the 90s didn’t stop a crowd of about 100 people from attending a long-delayed double towboat christening June 12 in Evansville, a small town on the Kaskaskia… Read More

The Howard Shipyard & Dock Company, Jeffersonville, Ind., as well-described in The Waterways Journal Old Boat Column now authored by Keith Norrington, was one of the most celebrated boat-building concerns… Read More

Riverview Tug Service, based in Bellevue, Iowa, at Mile 557 on the Upper Mississippi River, purchased the mv. Francis J. Blank from Blank River Services in Elizabeth, Pa. last year. Read More