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The Great Lakes Towing Company was contracted by The SS Columbia Project to tow the 113-year-old “Boblo Boat” SS COLUMBIA from Toledo, Ohio to Buffalo, New

The U.S. Coast Guard and local emergency responders searched Monday for missing person and capsized towing vessel on the Upper Mississippi River near St.

China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has taken delivery of Asia’s first tugboat Hai Yang Shi You 525, designed to operate solely on liquefied

An Illinois man who was captain of a petroleum barge that exploded in a Chicago canal in 2005, killing a crew member, was sentenced to six months in prison on

  Leading international towage company Svitzer has returned to Damen Shipyards for two more 80 ton ton bollard pull tugs for large vessel escort and

  The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has sent a team of investigators to probe Monday’s sinking of two tugboats on the Saint Lawrence

  Crewmembers are safe after a tugboat capsized and sank on the St. Lawrence River near Cornwall, Ontario after becoming pinned against a barge in strong

The first hybrid tug to operate in German waters was officially named during a party held Thursday in the Port of Bremerhaven. Annika Bootsman-Kleberg, Member

Flooding halted barge traffic on the Illinois River on Wednesday and high water levels prompted futures market operator CME Group Inc to declare force majeure

  By William Mahoney, Director, Safety Management Systems, LLC After 10 years in the making it appears a Subchapter M final rule on the inspection,

Check out this video of escort trials for KOTUG’s new hybrid tug, RT Evolution. Built by Damen Shipyards, RT Evolution is 32-meter hybrid next-generation

The Costa Concordia was back at sea for the final time on Monday under tow to a new dock at the Port of Genoa where the final phases of the dismantling

Mark Thomas, Director Towage & Marine Services at Teekay Shipping in Australia oversees the tug operations in Port Hedland, Australia, which is the

Shipping TV’s Chris Gosling takes his camera aboard the tug Svitzer Shotley as the tug goes bow to bow with the mighty Maersk Edinburgh – 243

This two-part series comes to us from Shipping TV‘s Chris Gosling who was aboard the tug Svitzer Stanford for the maiden call of the Triple-E

The last two tugs of a five-tug fleet upgrade program have just been delivered to Tianjin Port of China from CCCC Bomesc Marine Industry Co. Ltd. in Tianjin

Lutgens und Reimers (L&R), the Hamburg-based subsidiary of German towage services provider URAG has just taken delivery of two azimuth stern drive (ASD)

The U.S. Coast Guard has reported the capsize and sinking of a towing vessel on the Ohio River near Golconda, Illinois, Wednesday night. Coast Guard Sector

In a joint effort last night by Crowley and Signet Maritime, 8 tugs hooked up to Chevron’s Big Foot semi-submersible production platform in Corpus

Turkish shipbuilder Sanmar built 17 tugboats last year, including one pictured above, the Yenicay 1.  It was the most tugs ever built by Sanmar in a calendar