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FEATURE: VESSEL OPERATORS “The merger just made sense,” Bill Bray commented. “Our utility customers asked us to do various things that we didn’t or couldn’t do, such as dredging and construction work. The Carlisles were already helping us do a lot of those things.” – William Bray,

CEO of Carlisle & Bray

CARLISLE & BRAY ENTERPRISES ken its mooring and was careening down the Ohio.)

In current form, Carlisle and Bray (C&B) Enterprises In 2017, the company opened a new 160 foot, 1600 has been around just since 2011. But the company, which ton drydock in Hebron, KY, a move “that completes us,” provides a full range of inland marine services, has an ex- Carlisle says, in reference to C&B’s range of services. C&B tensive Ohio River history. The Carlisle side of the en- is working to integrate new vessels into its