When Capt. Larry Norris pilots a marine vessel down river with barges strung out in front of his tug, he knows the river can put up a fight. "You have hours and hours of sheer boredom. It's what you ...

Great Lakes Towing Company (GLT), the largest U.S.-flag tugboat company engaged in towing on the Great Lakes, has celebrated its 120th anniversary with the christening of their newest tugboat, the Tug ...

The Coast Guard rescued five crew members from a tugboat towing a 333-foot barge in rough seas off the Washington coast Friday. Rescuers made it to their location, about ten miles off the coast of La ...

Venyu, a company in business continuity, cloud-based virtualization, and battle-tested data recovery, announced that E.N. BISSO has expanded its VenyuCloud, cloud computing and virtualization platform ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Buffalo District announced on Monday it awarded at $8.4 million contract for a temporary tugboat to serve the Buffalo District’s repair fleet.

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Colle Towing Co., a local marine transportation company and shipyard, has won a $9.5 million contract to build a tug for Houston-based Signet Maritime Corp. Colle will construct ...

HOUSTON (AP) - The Coast Guard says a second tug boat has reached a disabled cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico and is helping tow it to Mobile, Ala. More than 3,000 passengers and a crew of more than ...

This article appears in the April 2022 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Jason Woods, a longtime tugboat worker and the president of International Longshore and Warehouse Union ...