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C&C Delivers Triple-Screw Towboat To Hines Furlong Line The mv. Scarlett Rose Furlong is the first of three 6,600 hp., triple-screw towboats that Hines Furlong Line ordered from C&C Marine & Repair. (Photo by Greg Milliken)

The mv. Scarlett Rose Furlong is the first of three 6,600 hp., triple-screw towboats that Hines Furlong Line ordered from C&C Marine & Repair. (Photo by Greg Milliken)

C&C Delivers Triple-Screw Towboat To Hines Furlong Line

November 20, 2020

Nashville, Tenn.-based Hines Furlong Line (HFL) has taken delivery of the first of three 6,600 hp., triple-screw towboats from C&C Marine & Repair in Belle Chasse, La. The mv. Scarlett… Read More

Metal Shark Alabama Delivers First Inland Towboat The Stephanie Pasentine is Metal Shark’s first steel new build and first inland towboat. (Photo courtesy of Metal Shark Alabama)

The Stephanie Pasentine is Metal Shark’s first steel new build and first inland towboat. (Photo courtesy of Metal Shark Alabama)

Metal Shark Alabama Delivers First Inland Towboat

May 22, 2020

By Nelson Spencer and Frank McCormack Metal Shark, a vessel designer and builder with shipyards in Jeanerette and Franklin, La., and Bayou La Batre, Ala., recently delivered its first-ever steel… Read More

C&C Completes Fifth 6,600 Hp. Towboat For Marquette Transportation Marquette Transportation offered C&C Marine & Repair the opportunity to name the last vessel of a five-boat series that C&C built for Marquette. The vessel will carry the name of Randy Mauer, C&C’s manager of boatbuilding. (Photo courtesy of C&C Marine & Repair)

Marquette Transportation offered C&C Marine & Repair the opportunity to name the last vessel of a five-boat series that C&C built for Marquette. The vessel will carry the name of Randy Mauer, C&C’s manager of boatbuilding. (Photo courtesy of C&C Marine & Repair)

C&C Completes Fifth 6,600 Hp. Towboat For Marquette Transportation

May 8, 2020

In March, C&C Marine & Repair, a Belle Chasse, La.-based full-service marine fabrication and repair shipyard, wrapped up construction on the fifth and final boat in a series of 6,600… Read More

Arlen “Benny” Cenac’s Main Iron Works Unveil Tier-IV Compliant Tractor Tug for Bisso Shipbuilders and engineers are hard at work at the Cenac-owned, Houma-based Main Iron Works on the new Bisso Towboat Inc. creation: a new 100′, 6,008-hp Tier 4-compliant ASD tractor tug.

Shipbuilders and engineers are hard at work at the Cenac-owned, Houma-based Main Iron Works on the new Bisso Towboat Inc. creation: a new 100′, 6,008-hp Tier 4-compliant ASD tractor tug.

Arlen “Benny” Cenac’s Main Iron Works Unveil Tier-IV Compliant Tractor Tug for Bisso

April 3, 2020

Note: The following is sponsored content provided by Main Iron Works. The September sun was beaming through the skies while the shipbuilders and engineers at the Cenac-owned, Houma-based Main Iron… Read More

GMS Celebrates Rapid Growth, Christens Mv. Syble Fay GMS 087

GMS Celebrates Rapid Growth, Christens Mv. Syble Fay

March 8, 2019

Baton Rouge, La.-based General Marine Services (GMS) christened its newest towboat, the mv. Syble Fay, February 15 at McKinney Salvage & Heavy Lift’s fleet on the east bank of the… Read More