Self-unloading Great Lakes barges, equipped with long booms that stockpile material on docks alongside, are using non-metallic bearings to support the huge cylinders that position the booms as they ...
Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding has delivered a newly built self-unloading barge to VanEnkevort Tug & Barge for operation on the Great Lakes. The new barge, named Michigan Trader, measures 740 feet in ...
Feb. 14, 2011, 7:17 AM EST / Source: GlobeNewswire NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rand Logistics, Inc. (Nasdaq:RLOG) ("Rand") today announced that it has acquired two Jones Act compliant, ...
The articulated tug barge Joyce Van Enkevort/Great Lakes Trader at anchor in Duluth's inner harbor Sunday afternoon in this photo by Jerry Bielicki. The self-unloading barge Trader has the distinction ...
At some future date, a ship will arrive in the Twin Ports. It may arrive carrying limestone and will leave loaded with iron ore or coal. What will make the event noteworthy is that it will be the ...
: Split load -- Verplank Mart Dock / Verplank Cobb Slip. : The barge Lewis J Kuber was built as a ship in 1952 by Bethlehem Steel Corp. In 1980, it was converted to a self-unloading barge. The tug ...
FLOODING AT Amerenue’s Sioux Plant, 30 miles up the Mississippi River from St. Louis, is always a concern for the plant’s management. Although the plant is on high ground, the plant can be isolated ...
MANITOWOC - No small feat took place at Broadwind Heavy Fabrications last week. Crews spent several hours slowly moving a 270-foot boom from the site to a barge that would then carry it up Lake ...
SAGINAW, MI - More commercial shipping vessels traveled into the Saginaw River in 2018, reaching the highest number seen in the past eight years. The shipping season started on March 29, 2018, with ...