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FEATURE: VESSEL OPERATORS

Carlisle & Bray every 15 minutes. ment with American Commercial Barge Line LLC to ac-

Additionally, Campbell retains core, important old- quire certain affreightment contracts, four towboats and school strengths: limited debt, access to capital, low over- 155 barges for its Ohio River operations (the deal was head, and, importantly, its “deck hand school,” a career- completed June 30). Campbell now owns and/or manages pathway apprenticeship program. Because of its relatively 50 towboats and over 1,100 barges. “We wouldn’t have small size, Campbell can be nimble, as situations warrant. been able to do this if we hadn’t started the preparatory “If we can