Boats & Barges

The latest inland marine industry news involving new-construction and refurbished towboats, passenger vessels, ferries, dredges and other inland river boats. Towboat christenings and recent innovations in towboat design are also featured.

Master Marine Delivers Mv. Rick Pemberton

December 14, 2018

Master Marine, Bayou la Batre, Ala., announced it has delivered the 67- by 28-foot mv. Rick Pemberton to Waterfront Services. The boat is powered by a pair of Mitsubishi S6R2-Y3MPTAW… Read More

Kindra Lake Towing’s Mv. Morgan Receives First COI Jeff Carie, Marine Safety Unit-Chicago, presents John Kindra, president of Kindra Lake Towing LP, with its first Certificate of Inspection for the mv. Morgan as the vessel’s crew looks on. Crew members include Nijaz Jahovic, deckhand; Capt. Mike Hunter; and Ken Horn, deck engineer. (Photo courtesy of Kindra Lake Towing)

Jeff Carie, Marine Safety Unit-Chicago, presents John Kindra, president of Kindra Lake Towing LP, with its first Certificate of Inspection for the mv. Morgan as the vessel’s crew looks on. Crew members include Nijaz Jahovic, deckhand; Capt. Mike Hunter; and Ken Horn, deck engineer. (Photo courtesy of Kindra Lake Towing)

Kindra Lake Towing’s Mv. Morgan Receives First COI

December 7, 2018

Kindra Lake Towing LP, Chicago, Ill., announced that it received its first Certificate of Inspection (COI) for the mv. Morgan on October 31. The COI was presented to John Kindra,… Read More

President Signs Bill Granting Exemption To Delta Queen The steamer Delta Queen has been moored in Houma, La., since 2015, awaiting renewal of its exemption. (WJ file photo by Frank McCormack)

The steamer Delta Queen has been moored in Houma, La., since 2015, awaiting renewal of its exemption. (WJ file photo by Frank McCormack)

President Signs Bill Granting Exemption To Delta Queen

December 7, 2018

December 4, 2018, will go down as one of the most significant dates ever for the 91-year-old Delta Queen Steamboat. That’s the date President Donald Trump signed into law the… Read More

FMT Scores Multiple COI ‘Firsts’ Kevin Wakefield, Decatur Marine; Eric Brumfield, Florida Marine; Philip Carmichael, Decatur Marine.

FMT Scores Multiple COI ‘Firsts’

December 3, 2018

In the river industry scramble to attain the certificates of inspection (COIs) necessary to comply with the recently enforced Subchapter M requirements, one company has racked up a number of… Read More

House OKs Delta Queen Exemption

November 30, 2018

The nation’s last authentic overnight steamboat may once again cruise the rivers of America’s heartland and deep south. On November 27, the U.S. House of Representatives reinstated an exemption to… Read More

Capt. Anthony Delivers Steam Generators For TVA Steam generators pass through Tennessee River lock en route to TVA plant.

Capt. Anthony Delivers Steam Generators For TVA

November 23, 2018

The mv. Capt. Anthony pushed a barge carrying four giant steam generators through locks on the Tennessee River to deliver it to a dock in Tennessee, where they arrived October… Read More

Magnolia Marine Celebrates Two Christenings Magnolia Marine's Mv. Miss Marley

Magnolia Marine Celebrates Two Christenings

November 21, 2018

Vicksburg, Miss.-based Magnolia Marine Transport, the marine transportation subsidiary of Ergon Inc., celebrated the christening of two towboats November 6 at the company’s headquarters on the Yazoo River. The newly-christened… Read More

ARTCO Christens Mv. Prairie Harvest Capt. Josh Burgess, master of the Prairie Harvest, christens the vessel with a bottle of champagne over the towknee.

Capt. Josh Burgess, master of the Prairie Harvest, christens the vessel with a bottle of champagne over the towknee.

ARTCO Christens Mv. Prairie Harvest

November 21, 2018

American River Transportation Company (ARTCO) christened a new harbor boat November 14 at its landing in St. Louis. Named the mv. Prairie Harvest, it is one of several identical vessels… Read More

Metal Shark Completes New Passenger Ferries For New Orleans Metal Shark Ferry

Metal Shark Completes New Passenger Ferries For New Orleans

November 17, 2018

Shipbuilder Metal Shark announced November 12 that both new 105-foot, 150-passenger, high-speed aluminum catamaran passenger ferries constructed for the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) have been completed and are… Read More

Mobile Engineer District Christens Survey Boat

November 17, 2018

The Mobile Engineer District christened the survey vessel Damrell in a November 8 ceremony at the Cooper Riverside Park Amphitheater in Mobile, Ala. Col. Sebastien P. Joly, Mobile District commander,… Read More

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