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Parker Goes Pink For Breast Cancer Awareness Month Pictured is the mv. Bobby Joe James coming through Demopolis, Ala. The vessel is named after a retired employee of Parker Towing Company; his wife, Vikki James, is a 20-year breast cancer survivor who volunteers her time working with the Relay for Life program. (Photo by Ford Nixon)

Pictured is the mv. Bobby Joe James coming through Demopolis, Ala. The vessel is named after a retired employee of Parker Towing Company; his wife, Vikki James, is a 20-year breast cancer survivor who volunteers her time working with the Relay for Life program. (Photo by Ford Nixon)

Parker Goes Pink For Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October 11, 2019

Parker Towing Company is going pink in October to support breast cancer prevention awareness and research during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The traditionally blue exhaust stacks of the motor vessels… Read More

Canal To Buy Five Pine Bluff Towboats The Bill Atkinson is one of five towboats Canal Barge will buy from Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel. (Photo by Jeff L. Yates)

The Bill Atkinson is one of five towboats Canal Barge will buy from Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel. (Photo by Jeff L. Yates)

Canal To Buy Five Pine Bluff Towboats

October 4, 2019

Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel Company and Canal Barge Company Inc. (CBC) announced on October 1 that they have signed a strategic agreement for Pine Bluff to sell five towboats… Read More

Marquis Energy Christens Mv. Tom Marquis mvTomMarquis

Marquis Energy Christens Mv. Tom Marquis

September 19, 2019

Marquis Energy, one of the world’s largest dry mill ethanol producers, christened a new towboat recently. The company held the ceremony August 16 at its marine facility in Hennepin, Ill.,… Read More

NGL Marine Takes Delivery Of 3,200 Hp. Towboat NGL HM

NGL Marine Takes Delivery Of 3,200 Hp. Towboat

September 19, 2019

NGL Marine, a segment of NGL Energy Partners LLC, Houston, Texas, has accepted delivery of a new towboat from Westport Orange Shipyard in Orange, Texas. It was christened the mv. Read More

Blakeley Delivers Third Boat To Plimsoll Joanne C

Blakeley Delivers Third Boat To Plimsoll

September 16, 2019

Blakeley BoatWorks, a Cooper Group-affiliated shipyard on the Mobile River, has delivered the third in a series of three towboats for Plimsoll Marine. Named the Joanne C, the vessel was… Read More

Hines Buys And Renames Three Towboats The mv. Tim P. Studdert was formerly the Robert D. Byrd of American Commercial Barge Line.

Hines Buys And Renames Three Towboats

September 13, 2019

Hines Furlong Line Inc., the expansion-minded operator/charterer of boats and barges, recently acquired three towboats and has others under construction. The boats that it bought are the mvs. Mountain State,… Read More

Conrad Building Second 6,000 Hp. Towboat Conrad Shipyard towboat

Conrad Building Second 6,000 Hp. Towboat

August 30, 2019

Conrad Shipyard of Morgan City has started production on a second 6,000 hp. inland towboat designed by MiNO Marine of New Orleans. The Subchapter M-compliant vessel measures 166 by 49… Read More

Verret Launches Retractable Towboat For Enterprise Verret Enterprise

Verret Launches Retractable Towboat For Enterprise

August 30, 2019

https://youtu.be/2rZp7B1Q75U 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 the maritime… 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 Shipyard in… Read More