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Metal Shark Alabama Delivers First Inland Towboat

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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

Metal Shark To Build Three Towboats Metal Shark is building three 120- by 35-foot river towboats of this John W. Gilbert Associates Inc. design for Florida Marine Transporters Inc. (Photo courtesy of Metal Shark)

Metal Shark is building three 120- by 35-foot river towboats of this John W. Gilbert Associates Inc. design for Florida Marine Transporters Inc. (Photo courtesy of Metal Shark)

Metal Shark To Build Three Towboats

October 26, 2018

Metal Shark announced its entry into the towboat market October 22 with a contract to build three 120- by 35-foot towboats for Florida Marine Transporters Inc. of Mandeville, La. … Read More