When Mike Mitchell, captain aboard Wood Towing’s mv. Harold Ancar, heard the company was planning to add a new towing vessel to its fleet, he immediately requested to be part… Read More
Towboats
By Nelson Spencer and Frank McCormack Metal Shark, a vessel designer and builder with shipyards in Jeanerette and Franklin, La., and Bayou La Batre, Ala., recently delivered its first-ever steel… Read More
Devall Towing & Boat Service of Hackberry LLC took delivery of a new towboat March 18 from Southwest Shipyard. The boat is the mv. Kathryn Louise and it is the… Read More
In March, C&C Marine & Repair, a Belle Chasse, La.-based full-service marine fabrication and repair shipyard, wrapped up construction on the fifth and final boat in a series of 6,600… Read More
Conrad Shipyard has delivered the 6,000 hp. towboat H. Merritt ‘Heavy’ Lane Jr. to Canal Barge Company Inc. of New Orleans. Built at Conrad Amelia, the Subchapter M-compliant vessel measures… Read More
Canal Barge Company (CBC), a New Orleans-based marine transportation company founded in 1933, is adding three new towboats to its fleet that already numbers 48 vessels strong, including its subsidiary… Read More
Master Marine Inc. has delivered the mv. Frank Mellor to Osage Marine Services Inc., St. Louis, Mo. The 67- by 28-foot towboat was designed by Entech Designs LLC. It is… Read More
Devall Towing & Boat Service of Hackberry LLC has taken delivery of a new towboat from Southwest Shipyard. The boat is the mv. Anna Frances and it is the third… Read More
Brennan Marine, the harbor services arm of marine contractor J.F. Brennan Company Inc., La Crosse, Wis., recently expanded its fleet of harbor boats that it operates on the Upper Mississippi… Read More
Vane Brothers, a marine transportation provider on the U.S. East, West and Gulf coasts, has taken delivery of the Annapolis, the second of four 3,000 hp. Salisbury Class inland towboats being built… Read More
