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Calvert City Port Taking Shape

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Calvert City Port Taking Shape

November 16, 2018

First Marine Properties LLC and Holliwood LLC, owned by longtime river entrepreneur W.A. “Peanut” Hollinger and his partner Jerry Smallwood, have completed the first phase of a port project near… Read More

OSHA Issues Citations, Fines In Fatal Towboat Blast William Strait

OSHA Issues Citations, Fines In Fatal Towboat Blast

July 30, 2018

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited five contractors for safety and health violations after three contract employees were killed and two others critically injured… Read More

Three Killed When Docked Towboat Explodes

January 29, 2018

An explosion from within the mv. William E. Strait, docked at First Marine’s Calvert City, Ky., shipyard for repairs, took the lives of three workers January 19. At least six… Read More