The sternwheel towboats Lady Lois and Laura J, owned by Amherst Madison, are both in their ninth decade of river duty. Pictured here on the Kanawha River in front… Read More
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.
Riverview Boat Store & Tug Service, Bellevue, Iowa, a midstream provider of groceries and supplies as well as lock assistance on the Upper Mississippi River, has purchased the… Read More
Eastern Shipbuilding announced the launch of the Z-drive tug Ava M. McAllister for McAllister Towing & Transportation Company Inc. The tug was launched on December 7, just 58 days… Read More
Master Marine, Bayou la Batre, Ala., announced it has delivered the 67- by 28-foot mv. Rick Pemberton to Waterfront Services. The boat is powered by a pair of… Read More
Kindra Lake Towing LP, Chicago, Ill., announced that it received its first Certificate of Inspection (COI) for the mv. Morgan on October 31. The COI was presented to… Read More
December 4, 2018, will go down as one of the most significant dates ever for the 91-year-old Delta Queen Steamboat. That’s the date President Donald Trump signed into law… Read More
Capt. Joe Kent of the mv. Ron Hull holding the boat’s COI. In the river industry scramble to attain the certificates of inspection (COIs) necessary to comply… Read More
The nation’s last authentic overnight steamboat may once again cruise the rivers of America’s heartland and deep south. On November 27, the U.S. House of Representatives reinstated an… Read More
The mv. Capt. Anthony pushed a barge carrying four giant steam generators through locks on the Tennessee River to deliver it to a dock in Tennessee, where they… Read More
Vicksburg, Miss.-based Magnolia Marine Transport, the marine transportation subsidiary of Ergon Inc., celebrated the christening of two towboats November 6 at the company’s headquarters on the Yazoo River. Read More
