Ulysses, San Francisco, is a robotics company made up of engineers and operators who have previously built championship-winning Formula 1 cars, satellites, space lasers, drones, underwater vehicles, h
Ask mariners what the most important part of a workboat is, aside from the hull, and they would probably say the engines or generators, propellers, waterjets, radar, or any number of other pieces of e
Three hundred times a month, commercial vessels on the Ohio River, largely barge tows, lock through the Montgomery Locks and Dam’s two chambers on their way to or from the Port of Pittsburgh. Bu
Friday marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall across the Louisiana/Mississippi border. The final death toll stands at 1,833 — over 1,400 in New Orleans. More than 500 dr
At first brush, Adegem, Belgium, and New Iberia, La., would seem to have little in common. Until one looks closer. Both have people there who speak French, and both are home to E-Crane Worldwide facil
A September 2023 presidential memorandum of understanding (MOU) from the Biden administration called for the elimination of four Snake River dams that the MOU said contributed to the near extinction o
Let’s get organized. An inland barge company that has 2,500 barges and 150 towboats needs to know where these assets are along the inland waterways system at any given time. And if it’s a
Trump's executive order aims to revive U.S. shipbuilding, counter China’s dominance, grow the fleet, and address workforce and infrastructure challenges.
Take a steel box — maybe 195'x35' — one that floats, fill its belly full of 1,500 tons of dry cargo and float it down the river. Or take a steel box, a bigger one, fill its belly full of p
President Donald Trump signed an executive order earlier this year aimed at rebuilding the U.S. shipbuilding industry. Rebuild? Tier II shipbuilders have been producing aluminum and steel military and
A quarter of a century ago, The National World War II Museum opened in New Orleans as The National D-Day Museum. I went to the exhibition for the first time later that year. In 2015, the Pacific Theat
Today’s emergency response vessels are specialty-built, multi-mission boats constructed from designs by manufacturers like Moose Boats, Vallejo, Calif.; MetalCraft Marine, Kingston, Ontario, Can
I’m following Jonathan Davis into the early morning fog. Davis is Bisso Towboat Co.’s vice president of training, and we’re moving along the company’s steel walk
Major dry cargo commodities tracked by the U.S. Customs District in New Orleans dropped 12.5% during the third quarter, according Criton Corp.’s River Transport News.
Aggregate imports of the dr
In September, Amogy Inc., an ammonia-to-power solution company, took delivery of the 105'x27'x13' tug NH3 Kraken. The steel-hulled tug was retrofitted with Amogy’s ammonia-to-electrica
Hard Rock Marine Services, Jean Lafitte, La., delivered the steel-hulled 130'x31'x5' dinner vessel Craft to Yacht Starship Dining Cruises, Tampa, Fla. The boat was delivered in March and since then, h
Seattle-based Snow & Co. has delivered a 49.7'x15.9'x7.54' hybrid catamaran aluminum research vessel to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
In the August cover story of WorkBoat (see page 26), Austin Golding, president and CEO of Golding Barge Line, said, “We’re in a healthy market, but it’s not a peak market. We’v
Laborde Marine Management LLC, New Orleans, announced in July the creation of a new affiliate, LabMar Inland LLC that will focus on the U.S. inland marine market, providing towing and pushboat service