While repair work at Demopolis Lock on the Tombigbee River in Alabama continues to march steadily toward a late-May reopening, operators on the Black Warrior River and farther south on… Read More
Tim Parker III
At this year’s Inland Marine Expo (IMX), five past recipients of the event’s 40 Under 40 Award gathered to discuss their experience that led up to receiving the award,… Read More
Since the early years of the Inland Marine Expo (IMX), the show has featured the 40 Under 40 Award, which recognizes up-and-coming leaders in the industry. New to this… Read More
Parker Towing Company, a Tuscaloosa, Ala.-based maritime transportation company, announced October 11 it has acquired General Marine Services (GMS), a Baton Rouge, La.-based tank barge operator. The acquisition of GMS… Read More
Parker Towing’s Nashville Marine Terminal, expected to be open in the first quarter of 2023, will mark the first time in about three years that a new intermodal riverport has… Read More
Tuscaloosa, Ala.-based Parker Towing Company christened a pair of towing vessels November 15, naming them for longtime friends and business associates Normond McAllister and the late George Hampton “Hamp” Uzzelle… Read More
Parker Towing Company is going pink in October to support breast cancer prevention awareness and research during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The traditionally blue exhaust stacks of the motor vessels… Read More
The Inland Waterways Users Board gathered May 23 in New Orleans, La., for its 91st meeting since Congress established the board as part of the Water Resources Development Act of… Read More
Tuscaloosa, Ala.-based Parker Towing Company christened the mv. T. Gary Fitts March 27 at the company’s dock on the west bank of the Black Warrior River. The vessel, formerly called… Read More
Parker Towing Company Inc., Tuscaloosa, Ala., “one of the oldest, most respected barge lines in the country,” as its literature states, recently expanded its marine and terminal operations on the… Read More
