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… Read More
Towboats
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… Read More
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… Read More
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 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
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
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
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
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
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