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Blessey Marine Services

Capt. Jayson Grimes, Blessey Marine Services Capt. Jayson Grimes

Capt. Jayson Grimes, Blessey Marine Services

February 12, 2021

Jayson Grimes was 19 back in 1990 when he went to work aboard towboats. He credits a few friends of his who’d already started out in the industry with introducing… Read More

Category 4 Hurricane Laura Hits Gulf Coast

August 28, 2020

Hurricane Laura made landfall about 1 a.m. August 27 near Cameron, La., a small community located on the southwest Louisiana coast where the Calcasieu Ship Channel meets the Gulf of… Read More

Blessey Christens Latest Towboat From Verret Shipyard —photos by Frank McCormack The 2,000 hp. mv. Daniel Wisner was built for Blessey Marine Services by Verret Shipyard.

Blessey Christens Latest Towboat From Verret Shipyard

June 26, 2020

By Nelson Spencer Jr. and Frank McCormack On June 4, representatives of the Blessey Marine Services family gathered at Bayou Fleet on the west bank of the Mississippi River near… Read More

Carpenter: AWO Still Listening, Advocating In Time Of COVID AWO logo

Carpenter: AWO Still Listening, Advocating In Time Of COVID

June 5, 2020

In between a schedule of Capitol Hill appearances and Zoom meetings that has not eased up despite coronavirus restrictions, Jennifer Carpenter, CEO of The American Waterways Operators, took time to… Read More

Blessey Marine Video Encourages Team During COVID-19 Screenshots from Blessey video. From left: Anne Marie Roberts, Ryan Hoskin and Clark Todd.

Blessey Marine Video Encourages Team During COVID-19

April 20, 2020

The idea started with a video project by his daughter’s first grade teachers. Like all schools in the United States, Blessey Marine President Clark Todd’s daughter’s school is suspended as… Read More

Coast Guard Honors Walter Blessey From left, Clark Todd, Blessey Marine Services president and chief operating officer; Scott Merritt, American Waterways Operators chairman; Walter Blessey Jr.; and Rear Adm. John Nadeau, Coast Guard assistant commandant for prevention policy.

Coast Guard Honors Walter Blessey

April 26, 2019

Walter Blessey Jr., chairman of Blessey Marine Services Inc., received the Coast Guard Meritorious Public Service Award during the spring convention of The American Waterways Operators (AWO) in Washington, D.C.,… Read More

Blessey Marine Celebrates 40th Anniversary Walter Blessey Jr. and Clark Todd.

Blessey Marine Celebrates 40th Anniversary

December 21, 2018

One of the most familiar company names on the nation’s inland waterways turned 40 this year: Blessey Marine Services. To mark the occasion, the company hosted an anniversary reception November… Read More

40 Under 40: Shields, Taylor, Todd, Williamson And Wolfe

August 10, 2018

The “40 Under 40” award was conceived for the 5th annual Inland Marine Expo (IMX) to highlight some of the industry’s future leaders. All award winners were nominated by various… Read More

New Era In Towboating: The Year Of The Inspected Vessel towboat Subchapter M

New Era In Towboating: The Year Of The Inspected Vessel

January 29, 2018

Subchapter M To Hit New Milestone This Summer The Navy and Coast Guard call the first cruise of a new vessel a “shakedown cruise,” during which its performance is assessed,… Read More

Scalise Touts Tax Cuts During Blessey Visit

January 15, 2018

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) was in the New Orleans region earlier this month touring companies that are celebrating the positive impacts from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,… Read More

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