A recent study has concluded that cities in middle and eastern Tennessee with access to barged petroleum products suffered less during the May shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline. Read More
Nashville
The mv. Ron Nokes, a 4,000 hp. twin-screw towboat built by Steiner Construction Company, Bayou La Batre, Ala., was put into service the week of February 15. While… Read More
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. Read More
Bill Holman didn’t need the words on the plaque at Lock 2 Park in Nashville, Tenn., to know its historical significance. Holman, 91, lived through it. “This… Read More
Pine Bluff Materials Company plans to create a barge fleeting area at two locations along the Cumberland River near Nashville, Tenn., for barges waiting to unload aggregate for asphalt… Read More
Hines Furlong Line Inc., the Nashville, Tenn.-based barge and towing company that seems to be forever adding to its growing fleet of towboats, recently took delivery of two identical… Read More
The Nashville Engineer District is in the process of reassigning the Lock C site to the U.S. Army Garrison at Fort Campbell, Ky. The Lock C site has historically been… Read More
Hines Furlong Line Inc., the expansion-minded operator/charterer of boats and barges, recently acquired three towboats and has others under construction. The boats that it bought are the mvs. Mountain… Read More
Take a drive through Nashville, Tenn., or visit the city’s riverfront, and it’s easy to see the region is in the midst of a transformative era of growth. Between… Read More
This high-water season is threatening to break records along the whole length of several river systems. Higher-than-expected rainfalls in the last weekend of February caused high water in the Ohio… Read More
