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Mike’s Completes Addition To Machine/Fabrication Facility Machine Shop addition will allow for Z-drive repairs and storage. (Photo courtesy of Mike's Inc.)

Machine Shop addition will allow for Z-drive repairs and storage. (Photo courtesy of Mike's Inc.)

Mike’s Completes Addition To Machine/Fabrication Facility

March 23, 2020

Five minutes of talking to Mike Marko, owner and president of Mike’s Inc., will make you forget that there is an economic slowdown because of a virus. Mike’s… Read More

Verret Partners With Arkansas Builder To Increase Construction Capacity

March 23, 2020

It’s been about 10 years ago now that leaders at Spartan Marine in Fort Smith, Ark., reached out to Ted Verret, who owns and operates Verret Shipyard in Plaquemine,… Read More

McGinnis Building First Towing Vessel In 11 Years New 1,600 hp. retractable-pilothouse towboat under construction at McGinnis Inc.’s Sheridan Shipyard.

New 1,600 hp. retractable-pilothouse towboat under construction at McGinnis Inc.’s Sheridan Shipyard.

McGinnis Building First Towing Vessel In 11 Years

March 20, 2020

McGinnis Inc., part of the McNational Inc. group of companies, has begun construction on a new, twin-screw boat. Crews began laying down the keel of the as-yet unnamed,… Read More

Newt Marine Repowers Three Boats, Renames One Aerial view of shipyard activities at Newt Marine Service in Dubuque, Iowa. (Photo by Quintin Pfeiffer)

Aerial view of shipyard activities at Newt Marine Service in Dubuque, Iowa. (Photo by Quintin Pfeiffer)

Newt Marine Repowers Three Boats, Renames One

March 20, 2020

Since December, the drydocks of Newt Marine Service of Dubuque, Iowa, have been busy with three repowering projects. These are the first three of seven repowers Newt plans on… Read More

Eagle Fab Launches Deck Barge New 160- by 60- by 10-foot barge was built for Barge & Boat Rental Service LLC.

Eagle Fab Launches Deck Barge

January 17, 2020

Eagle Fabrication LLC, a division of Eagle Marine Industries Inc., Sauget, Ill., recently launched into the Mississippi River at St. Louis a 160-foot, flat deck barge. The barge follows… Read More

Changes For Small Shipyard Grant Applicants

January 17, 2020

The Maritime Administration (MarAd) announced some changes to information that must be included on an application for a Small Shipyard Grant in 2020. (See related item in Washington Waves)… Read More

Yager Launches Final Barge For LST Memorial Dock barge for LST 325 splashes into Ohio River. (Photo by Jason Koenig)

Yager Launches Final Barge For LST Memorial

November 1, 2019

Yager Marine has launched the second of two deck barges that will become a docking facility for the World War II amphibious vehicle LST 325. LST 325 is… Read More

Thoma-Sea Wins $24 Million Contract For MSU Barge

October 21, 2019

Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors LLC, Houma, La., has been awarded a $24,491,400 contract by the Philadelphia Engineer District to construct a specialty steel barge for the Corps’ Mat Sinking Unit… Read More

LST Dock Barge Launch Yager launch 2

LST Dock Barge Launch

October 7, 2019

Yager Marine, Owensboro, Ky., on October 1 launched a deck barge it is building for the LST 325 Memorial in Evansville, Ind. The 140- by 20- by 5-1/2-foot deck… Read More

Eagle Fabrication Launches 100th Barge Eagle Fabrication’s one-hundredth barge slides into the Mississippi River at Sauget, Ill. (Photo by Jason Koenig)

Eagle Fabrication’s one-hundredth barge slides into the Mississippi River at Sauget, Ill. (Photo by Jason Koenig)

Eagle Fabrication Launches 100th Barge

September 27, 2019

Matt Thomas (without hard hat) amid shipyard workers of Eagle Fabrication. (Photo by Nelson Spencer Jr.) Eagle Fabrication LLC, a division of Eagle Marine Industries Inc., Sauget, Ill.,… Read More