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Boats & Barges

The latest inland marine industry news involving new-construction and refurbished towboats, passenger vessels, ferries, dredges and other inland river boats. Towboat christenings and recent innovations in towboat design are also featured.

Verret Launches Retractable Towboat For Enterprise Verret Enterprise

Verret Launches Retractable Towboat For Enterprise

August 30, 2019

Neighbors watched from their folding chairs along LA-75 in Plaquemine, La. Motorists slowed to take pictures and blow their horns in support. Workers paused for selfies. Passing boats slowed… Read More

Robert Allan, MTU Develop LNG Towboat Design Robert Allan-designed LNG towboat.

Robert Allan, MTU Develop LNG Towboat Design

August 23, 2019

Robert Allan Ltd. and MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH announced August 16 that they have developed a natural gas-fueled, shallow-draft pushboat design. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is attracting attention in… Read More

Maritime Partners Christens Mv. G. Brooks Sperry G. Brooks Sperry christens namesake vessel.

Maritime Partners Christens Mv. G. Brooks Sperry

August 23, 2019

Metairie, La.-based Maritime Partners LLC, owner of some 350 towboats and barges on long-term charter throughout the inland waterways, christened a new towboat July 26 at John Bludworth… Read More

Odyssey III: Refurbishment On The Potomac The Odyssey III was recently repowered with Cummins QSK19 main engines and Cummins generators.

Odyssey III: Refurbishment On The Potomac

August 19, 2019

There are many fine and elegant places to dine in Washington D.C., but few offer the comfort and opulence to match the mv. Odyssey III. Its sleek,… Read More

Alaskan Marine Research Vessel Powered By Volvo Research vessel Nanuq was designed and built by Armstrong Marine.

Alaskan Marine Research Vessel Powered By Volvo

August 19, 2019

The 40- by 13-foot research vessel Nanuq recently entered service for the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. In a competitive solicitation process last… Read More

Gnots Orders Towboat The new boat will resemble the mv. Dane Wise, shown in this 2014 photo, only it will be a foot shorter and a foot narrower.

Gnots Orders Towboat

August 17, 2019

Currently under construction at the Harvey Canal yard of Eymard Marine Construction & Repair is the shell of a new towboat that will be towed upriver and completed by… Read More

Robert L. Posey Getting New Nozzles And Rudders ACBL project managers Ron Schneider and Ron Culp flank James Marine superintendent Raymond Willingham. (Photo courtesy of ACBL)

Robert L. Posey Getting New Nozzles And Rudders

August 16, 2019

The mv. Robert L. Posey in 2011 before its purchase by ACBL and its present-day upgrade. (Photo by Jeff L. Yates) Forty-five years old and one of… Read More

Barbour JB Shipyard Completes Mv. Karl E. Johnson The Karl E. Johnson is similar to last year’s Kaskaskia Warrior, except that it has Z-drives. (Photo courtesy of Barbour JB Shipyard)

Barbour JB Shipyard Completes Mv. Karl E. Johnson

July 26, 2019

Trapped on the Kaskaskia River as this is written, waiting for the high water on the Mississippi River to recede, is a new towboat built by Barbour JB Shipyard… Read More

Belle Chasse Marine Repowering Fleet With Volvo Penta Dillon Entrekin, port engineer at Louisiana’s Belle Chasse Marine Transportation.

Belle Chasse Marine Repowering Fleet With Volvo Penta

July 22, 2019

Belle Chasse Marine Transportation, the largest launch service on the Lower Mississippi, puts a lot of hours on its fleet of crew and supply boats, which run day… Read More

Dupre Marine Celebrates Christening Of Mv. Everard Dupre The mv. Everard Dupre was built by Intracoastal Iron Works in Bourg, La. (Photo by Frank McCormack)

Dupre Marine Celebrates Christening Of Mv. Everard Dupre

July 19, 2019

On June 12, Houma, La.-based towboat operator Dupre Marine Transportation christened the mv. Everard Dupre, the 18-year-old company’s ninth vessel. The Everard Dupre is named after company owner Rory Dupre’s… Read More

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